{"id":104118,"date":"2020-11-14T04:09:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T10:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=104118"},"modified":"2020-11-10T18:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T00:14:27","slug":"16-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/14\/16-u\/","title":{"rendered":"16.u.  &#8220;Therefore we do not lose heart.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"text 2Cor-4-7\">2 Corinthians 4:7\u00a0 \u00a0But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. <\/span><span id=\"en-NKJV-28868\" class=\"text 2Cor-4-8\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup><i>We are<\/i>\u00a0hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed;\u00a0<i>we are<\/i> perplexed, but not in despair;\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"en-NKJV-28869\" class=\"text 2Cor-4-9\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed\u2014 <\/span><span id=\"en-NKJV-28870\" class=\"text 2Cor-4-10\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. <\/span><span id=\"en-NKJV-28871\" class=\"text 2Cor-4-11\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus\u2019 sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. <\/span><span id=\"en-NKJV-28872\" class=\"text 2Cor-4-12\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>So then death is working in us, but life in you.<\/span><span id=\"en-NKJV-28873\" class=\"text 2Cor-4-13\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written,\u00a0<span class=\"oblique\">\u201cI believed and therefore I spoke,\u201d<\/span> we also believe and therefore speak,\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"en-NKJV-28874\" class=\"text 2Cor-4-14\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present\u00a0<i>us<\/i>\u00a0with you.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"en-NKJV-28875\" class=\"text 2Cor-4-15\"><sup class=\"versenum\">15\u00a0<\/sup>For all things\u00a0<i>are<\/i> for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text 2Cor-4-16\">Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward\u00a0<i>man<\/i>\u00a0is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ebenezer Erskine was a Scottish minister in the 1700s who faced some serious challenges in his ministry. But he knew how to draw encouragement from the Lord each morning. In his journal for September 20, 1721, he wrote: \u201cThis morning, a little after I awakened, I began to turn my thoughts toward the Lord Jesus; and the Lord encouraged me\u2026by a sweet gale of his Spirit; for my meditation of him was sweet. I could say that his love is better than wine; yea, that his loving-kindness is better than life\u2026. My heart did burn within me, while I thought of him who is Immanuel, and whose name is Wonderful; and what more can I say?\u201d We live in a chaotic world, and without the daily encouragement of Christ what would we do? That\u2019s why it\u2019s vital to start the day with Him. Even before rising from bed, we can say, \u201cGood morning, Lord!\u201d And on a chair or table nearby, we can keep an open Bible.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re encouraged by the Lord as we walk with Him, and our walk with Him is a pathway of perpetual praise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Corinthians 4:7\u00a0 \u00a0But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. \u00a0We are\u00a0hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed;\u00a0we are perplexed, but not in despair;\u00a0\u00a0persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed\u2014 \u00a0always carrying about in the body the dying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/14\/16-u\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;16.u.  &#8220;Therefore we do not lose heart.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104121,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104118\/revisions\/104121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}