{"id":1582,"date":"2020-07-19T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2020-07-20T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:52:15","slug":"its-like-the-bridesmaids-and-their-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Like the Bridesmaids and Their Lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-19-20.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew 25:1-13 <br>Always be ready; the King could come at any time! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke 12:35-36, 40  \u201cStay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 36and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks\u2026 40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always be ready; the King could come at any time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oswald Chambers from My Utmost for His Highest: \u201cReadiness for God means that we are prepared to do the smallest thing or the largest thing\u2014 it makes no difference. It means we have no choice in what we want to do, but that whatever God\u2019s plans may be, we are there and ready. Whenever any duty presents itself, we hear God\u2019s voice as our Lord heard His Father\u2019s voice, and we are ready for it\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always be ready; the King could come at any time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-19-20.mp3\">It&#8217;s Like The Bridesmaids And Their Lamps<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-19-20.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 25:1-13 Always be ready; the King could come at any time! Luke 12:35-36, 40 \u201cStay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 36and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1582\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Like the Bridesmaids and Their Lamps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-king-his-kingdom","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}