{"id":39979,"date":"2018-05-16T07:35:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=39979"},"modified":"2018-05-16T07:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:35:41","slug":"perfect-in-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/16\/perfect-in-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect in weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"verseid:19.118.24\"><b>Psalms 118:24<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:38.3.9\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Zechariah 3:9<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.84.10\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 84:10<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:16.8.10\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Nehemiah 8:10<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Then he said to them, \u201cGo your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.28.7\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 28:7-8<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.\u00a0\u00a0The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:20.17.22\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Proverbs 17:22<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:23.12.1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Isaiah 12:1-3<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0You will say in that day: \u201cI will give thanks to you, O LORD, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBehold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:47.8.2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>2 Corinthians 8:2<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Finding joy, peace and rest can be like chasing the wind if we look for it apart from Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Yet it is hard yielding to laying it at His feet and solely trusting it to Him.\u00a0 It shouldn&#8217;t be but many times it is.\u00a0 We try to handle it in our own strength, ways, and quick fix solutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Yielding to His awesome love, power, might, wisdom, purpose, and plan all starts with trusting fully, without doubt, and faithfully waiting.\u00a0 Joy, peace, and rest cannot be found in self-reliance or looking to others.\u00a0 It is only found in a heart, mind, and soul yielded to and trusting in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d Psalms 118:24\u00a0\u00a0This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Zechariah 3:9\u00a0\u00a0For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/16\/perfect-in-weakness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perfect in weakness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7111,296,7110,7109,6077,50,6302,1805,444,7107,5624,2351,1788,7108,83,7047,4191,5425,2602,6026,2592,3201,619,65,7106,533,2609,1518,2668,2591,6194,6,7112,451],"class_list":["post-39979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abundance-of-joy","tag-affliction","tag-anger-turned-away","tag-angry-with-me","tag-anoited","tag-come-to-him","tag-courts","tag-crushed-spirit","tag-day","tag-do-nto-be-greived","tag-doorkeeper","tag-give-thanks","tag-glad","tag-good-medicine","tag-grace","tag-joyful-heart","tag-made","tag-mighty-in-strength","tag-not-be-afraid","tag-overflowed","tag-perfect-in-weakness","tag-poverty","tag-power","tag-rejoice","tag-remove-the-iniquity","tag-salvation","tag-saving-refuge","tag-song","tag-stone","tag-sufficient","tag-thousand","tag-trust","tag-wealth-of-generosity","tag-wickedness"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39979","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=39979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39981,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39979\/revisions\/39981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}