{"id":6025,"date":"2016-10-24T02:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twolisteners.org\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2016-10-24T02:30:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:30:24","slug":"october-24-salt-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=6025","title":{"rendered":"October 24 -Salt of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-6027 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/m_go122.jpg\" alt=\"m_go122\" width=\"311\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/m_go122.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/m_go122-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/m_go122-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\">October 24 \u2013 Salt of the Earth<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Petition\"><span style=\"color:#800000;\"><em>Our Lord, we bless Thee and thank Thee for Thy Keeping Power.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Yes! \u201cKept by the Power of God\u201d is a promise, and an assurance that holds Joy and Beauty for the believing soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">The keeping that means security, safety, is wonderful. There is, too, the keeping that implies Life, freshness, purity, the being \u201ckept unspotted from the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Then there is the keeping that I ensure to those of whom I speak as the salt of the earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">\u201cYe are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour it is henceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Only in very close contact with Me is the keeping Power realized. That keeping Power which maintains the salt at its freshest and best, and also preserves from corruption that portion of the world in which I place it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">What a work! Not by activity in this case, but simply by its existing, by its quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>I<\/em><em> the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment;\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"> <em> lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.\u00a0 Isaiah 27:3<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 24 \u2013 Salt of the Earth Our Lord, we bless Thee and thank Thee for Thy Keeping Power. Yes! \u201cKept by the Power of God\u201d is a promise, and an assurance that holds Joy and Beauty for the believing soul. The keeping that means security, safety, is wonderful. There is, too, the keeping that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=6025\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">October 24 -Salt of the Earth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godcalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}