{"id":6278,"date":"2016-08-16T03:49:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/moving-according-to-plan\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:34","slug":"moving-according-to-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/moving-according-to-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVING\n  ACCORDING TO PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Faith; God\u2019s Will; Guidance; Providence; Trust<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Reference:<\/b> Psalm 13:1\u20132<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In December 1958, I came to America from Germany on the USS <i>Butner<\/i>, a transport ship. After we left Bremerhafen, we passed through the North Sea into the North Atlantic. Huge waves buffeted the ship, and every day seemed the same\u2014water, water everywhere, to the north, the south, the east, and the west. All we could hear was the monotonous grinding of the ship\u2019s engine.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Finally, the scene changed. There was water to the east and the south, but to the west stood the Statue of Liberty gleaming in the morning sun. We had come home.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Walking by faith can be like that. Waves of opposition battle us with no change in sight. In all directions there seems to be nothing, with the Lord seemingly asleep. Then, finally, a special day arrives, revealing that we have been moving all along according to his plan.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Helmar Heckel, Excelsior, Minnesota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Faith; God\u2019s Will; Guidance; Providence; Trust Reference: Psalm 13:1\u20132 In December 1958, I came to America from Germany on the USS Butner, a transport ship. After we left Bremerhafen, we passed through the North Sea into the North Atlantic. Huge waves buffeted the ship, and every day seemed the same\u2014water, water everywhere, to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/moving-according-to-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MOVING<br \/>\n  ACCORDING TO PLAN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}