{"id":1319,"date":"2020-11-17T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T03:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2020-11-17T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T03:42:21","slug":"you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water-but-you-cant-make-it-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"You can lead a horse to water,  but you can&#8217;t make it drink."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading about the Samaritan woman at the well.\u00a0 She asked the Lord for some of the living water that Jesus told her about.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t help but recall many times in my life that I would ask the Lord to fill me up, fill me up, Lord fill me up.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t help but get a picture of Father God having a smirk on His face while He reminds me that I have to actually drink,\u00a0 otherwise he is just pouring the water on me.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a funny picture.\u00a0 Reminds me of my Dad.\u00a0 Smirk, shaking his head, enjoying my naivete.\u00a0 The Lord then follows up with great thought provoking advice.\u00a0 Are you drinking in the things of God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading about the Samaritan woman at the well.\u00a0 She asked the Lord for some of the living water that Jesus told her about.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t help but recall many times in my life that I would ask the Lord to fill me up, fill me up, Lord fill me up.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annettestansbury.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}