{"id":6868,"date":"2019-04-29T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:55:15","slug":"have-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/have-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"HAVE COURAGE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Isaiah 41:10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Fear not, for I\u00a0am\u00a0with you; be not dismayed, for I\u00a0am\u00a0your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know that fear paralyzes? Perhaps most of us have heard the expression, \u201cHe froze like a deer in the headlights.\u201d Think of the most frightful experiences of your life and you may be able to relate to that poor animal. Satan uses fear to keep believers from doing the things that the Lord has called us and empowered us to accomplish. Satan causes us to imagine that we will be laughed at or tormented if we obey the Lord, so we tend to stare into His headlights and do nothing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the midst of our fear we are given this powerful verse in Isaiah 41:10. It was one of the first verses I memorized over 60 years ago. There are two things that we are instructed to do: Don\u2019t fear and don\u2019t be dismayed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord promises what He will do for us if we do not fear or become depressed: He will\u00a0<strong><em>strengthen us<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong><em>help us<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and<strong><em>uphold us<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0with His righteous right hand. The right hand is the symbol of ultimate divine power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I challenge you to let the Lord fight your battles with the enemy. Trust Him completely and know that He never leaves you or forsakes you but will always be with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211; &#8211;\u00a0Pastor Cecil\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 41:10 \u201cFear not, for I\u00a0am\u00a0with you; be not dismayed, for I\u00a0am\u00a0your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.\u201d Did you know that fear paralyzes? Perhaps most of us have heard the expression, \u201cHe froze like a deer in the headlights.\u201d Think of [&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-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","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=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}