{"id":4059,"date":"2025-08-18T07:51:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2025-08-16T22:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:52:38","slug":"god-is-always-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/god-is-always-working\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is Always Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Monday, August 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>God Is Always Working<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. <strong>Psalm 20:7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lyrics from Elevation Worship\u2019s song \u201cAnother One\u201d remind us of the truth we so often forget:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You do everything on purpose. I can feel Your Spirit stirring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve been praying, You\u2019ve been working, working it all for good.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How often do we forget that God is already working, even when we can\u2019t see the outcome? We spend so much time trying to control the situation, gathering more &#8220;horses&#8221;, things, skills, strategies, best practices, and resources, believing that these will bring us success. But what if these things are just distractions, tempting us to trust in ourselves instead of in God\u2019s sovereign will?<\/p>\n<p>God is always at work behind the scenes. While we may be running around trying to accumulate the next best tool, technique, or approach, God is quietly weaving His perfect plan together. It\u2019s time to stop depending on our own strength and start trusting that *He* is the one who gives us the victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>:<em> Lord, help me to balance my efforts with trust in You. I know that You call me to prepare and to act, but ultimately, I place my trust in You for the victory. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Monday, August 18 God Is Always Working Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. Psalm 20:7 The lyrics from Elevation Worship\u2019s song \u201cAnother One\u201d remind us of the truth we so often forget: &#8220;You do everything on purpose. I can feel Your Spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}