{"id":5761,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/you-are-the-needle-and-i-am-the-thread\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:06","slug":"you-are-the-needle-and-i-am-the-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/you-are-the-needle-and-i-am-the-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are The Needle and I Am The Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young African convert prayed one evening like this:  &#8220;O Lord, You are the needle and I am the thread!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That day he had visited a school and watched some girls who were sewing.  He noticed that the thread always followed the needle, and he saw in that simple task a profound spiritual truth.  If he stayed close to the Lord, praying, reading His word, and depending entirely on Him, he would always be led by God&#8217;s Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Total reliance on God will keep us from becoming frustrated by interruptions or from wondering what He wants us to do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young African convert prayed one evening like this: &#8220;O Lord, You are the needle and I am the thread!&#8221; That day he had visited a school and watched some girls who were sewing. He noticed that the thread always followed the needle, and he saw in that simple task a profound spiritual truth. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[885,1802,3214,3123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}