{"id":120,"date":"2010-10-08T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2010-10-24T22:15:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T03:15:19","slug":"desperate-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/desperate-for-water\/","title":{"rendered":"desperate for water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/glassofwater.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"139\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/desperate-for-water\/glassofwater\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/glassofwater.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"194,259\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"glassofwater\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/glassofwater.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/glassofwater.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-139\" title=\"glassofwater\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/glassofwater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Isaiah 41:17-20 The Message<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The poor and homeless are\u00c2\u00a0desperate for water,<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">their tongues parched and no water to be found.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">But I&#8217;m there to be found, I&#8217;m there for them,<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">and I, God of Israel, will not leave them thirsty.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">I&#8217;ll open up rivers for them on the barren hills,<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">spout fountains in the valleys.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">I&#8217;ll turn the baked-clay badlands into a cool pond,<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">the waterless waste into splashing creeks.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">I&#8217;ll plant the red cedar in that treeless wasteland,<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">also acacia, myrtle, and olive.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">I&#8217;ll place the cypress in the desert,<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">with plenty of oaks and pines.<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Everyone will see this. No one can miss it\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">unavoidable, indisputable evidence<br \/>\n<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">That I, God, personally did this.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Why is clean water important?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The human body is 50 -70% water. It needs a regular supply for good health. Most people could only go a few days without dehydration.<\/li>\n<li>Cooking requires water: clean water = non-contaminated food<\/li>\n<li>The container must be clean for water to stay pure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Who is doing something to provide clean water to those in need?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 27px; font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.water.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Living Water International<\/a> exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience \u00e2\u20ac\u0153living water\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe gospel of Jesus Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich alone satisfies the deepest thirst.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watermissions.org\" target=\"_blank\">Water Missions International<\/a>&#8216;s vision is that no person should perish for want of safe drinking water or an opportunity to hear the &#8220;Living Water&#8221; message.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/www.charitywater.org\" target=\"_blank\">charity: water<\/a> is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ob.org\/_programs\/water\/water_index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Blessing<\/a> is supplying clean drinking water to thousands through the construction of more than 2,000 wells and cisterns each year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwaterday.org\/page\/3206\" target=\"_blank\">World Water Day<\/a> &#8211; The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 41:17-20 The Message The poor and homeless are\u00c2\u00a0desperate for water, their tongues parched and no water to be found. But I&#8217;m there to be found, I&#8217;m there for them, and I, God of Israel, will not leave them thirsty. I&#8217;ll open up rivers for them on the barren hills, spout fountains in the valleys. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/desperate-for-water\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,24,3],"tags":[7,19],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-god","category-ponderings","tag-smbc","tag-ttw2015","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/water-rippling.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-1W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}