{"id":3612,"date":"2014-02-10T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2014-02-10T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:10:21","slug":"soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/soaring\/","title":{"rendered":"SOARING!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isaiah 40:29-31<\/strong><\/p>\n

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He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.\u00a0 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.\u00a0 They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A man was not feeling up to par, so he made an appointment and went to see his doctor.\u00a0 When the doctor entered the examining room, it was not his regular doctor, but an intern.\u00a0 The intern told him that his doctor had been called out of town on an emergency and that he was filling in. After a short examination he was told he was in very bad condition. It was like a slap in the face and he demanded a second opinion! Without flinching, the intern said:\u00a0 “You’re ugly too!”\u00a0 That is a terrible joke to begin the week, but I hope you will stay with me as we explore the importance of attitude in the life of the believer.<\/p>\n

I never want to belittle the ordeals that people encounter.\u00a0 Perhaps the worst thing we can say to someone who is going through a valley of the shadow of death experience is to say: \u201cI know what you are going through.”\u00a0 We don’t!\u00a0 It is impossible for us to know what is causing the pain within a person.\u00a0 But the Lord knows!<\/p>\n

Some people experience sickness and incapacitation of one sort or another.\u00a0 In those times it is well to consider the way God’s people have suffered across the centuries of time.\u00a0 Some of the greatest songs or poems of praise were penned at times of suffering.<\/p>\n

Each of us is given a choice in dealing with the pain and agony of this life.\u00a0 We can sigh and moan about how hard our situation is, or we can soar above the circumstances and praise the Lord from whom all blessings come!\u00a0 I, for one, choose to soar!\u00a0 Come and soar with me!<\/p>\n

May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isaiah 40:29-31 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.\u00a0 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.\u00a0 They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}