{"id":5742,"date":"2017-06-26T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2017-06-26T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:36:22","slug":"fear-and-depresssion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/fear-and-depresssion\/","title":{"rendered":"FEAR AND DEPRESSSION!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Isaiah 41:10<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cFear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I was a small boy (many years ago), Isaiah 41:10 was one of the first verses that I ever memorized. Now over seventy-five years later, I find it remarkable that I can still recall the words. They have been brought to my mind many times through the years &#8212; words that have been a true guide for my life.<\/p>\n<p>There are two instructions the Lord gives us to operate our lives by: <em>DO NOT FEAR<\/em> and <em>BE NOT DISMAYED. <\/em>That immediately warns me that there is danger for each and every believer who allows fear and depression to dominate our life.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I have come to the realization that many people are crippled by the debilitating grip of fear, depression, or both. Counselors have been providing so-called answers to these issues from a humanistic point of view, but more often than not they have failed.<\/p>\n<p>The true answer is to be found with the Lord Himself. The answer He provides for fear is that He is with us &#8212; WE ARE NEVER ALONE! The answer to depression is God&#8217;s promise TO STRENGTHEN US AND UPHOLD US WITH HIS RIGHTEOUS RIGHT HAND!<\/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>Isaiah 41:10\u00a0 \u201cFear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.\u201d When I was a small boy (many years ago), Isaiah 41:10 was one of the first verses that I ever [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","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=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}