{"id":1190,"date":"2019-11-18T13:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2020-06-24T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:31:05","slug":"no-room-for-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/18\/no-room-for-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"NO ROOM FOR DESPAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.<\/p>\n<p>Depression and anxiety are the main causes of deep sadness in a dejected soul. Every normal human being has both the &#8220;high&#8221;  and &#8220;low&#8221; seasons  regardless of how spiritual one is. Sometimes when we hit the &#8221; rock bottom&#8221;, we are tempted to lose hope.<\/p>\n<p>Dear believers,  as bad as the times are or as hopeless as the situation is , there is no room for despair.  We have a promise of restoration. The Psalmist says &#8221; I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance&#8221; The scriptural way of finding relief is to pray , not to lose hope, and trust in God&#8217;s promises. <\/p>\n<p>Additional readings:<br \/>\nMat 26:38<br \/>\nPsa 71:14<br \/>\nPsa 9 1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffdBlessed week\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance. Depression and anxiety are the main causes of deep sadness in a dejected soul. Every normal human being has both the &#8220;high&#8221; and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}