{"id":3788,"date":"2014-05-22T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2014-05-27T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T15:22:37","slug":"troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"TROUBLES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2\u00a0Corinthians 6:3-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>We put no stumbling block in anyone\u2019s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I write this I am listening to a gospel song that proclaims &#8220;<em>I\u2019m<\/em> <em>getting ready to leave this world<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Are we? I mean, are we truly looking forward to the day when we will say goodbye to the things of this world and enter our eternal home?<\/p>\n<p>In studying the biographies of some of the greatest saints across the ages, I learn that they faced troubles. Many faced far greater troubles than I have ever faced. Not only that, they dealt with these troubles with confidence in Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Frequently I have heard ministers preach and teach a feel-good gospel. They seem to say that if you have enough faith you will never have to deal with sickness, pain, or catastrophic events. When I hear their teachings I want to shout out for them to read about the life of Paul. He endured more persecution than I can imagine, yet he was in the center of God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery I&#8217;ve made is that we can have victory in the middle of the storms of life. I recall a song we used to sing when I was a teenager &#8212; &#8220;<em>Troubles may come and troubles will go; we\u2019ll trust in Jesus come weal or woe.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em>Now<em> that<\/em> is my aim in life. I know that there will be troubles, but my Jesus is in control.<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\u00a0Corinthians 6:3-4 We put no stumbling block in anyone\u2019s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses. As I write this I am listening to a gospel song that proclaims &#8220;I\u2019m getting ready to leave [&hellip;]<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","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=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}