{"id":1381,"date":"2020-03-22T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2020-04-08T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T11:26:02","slug":"the-word-that-sustains-the-weary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/22\/the-word-that-sustains-the-weary\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WORD THAT SUSTAINS THE WEARY."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isa 50:4 &#8220;The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, he awakens My ear to hear as the learned.<\/p>\n<p>As believers, our main task is to minister hope in a hopeless world. Many people are living  desperate lives and some are at the verge of giving up. We have not been called to add more problems but to give solutions to their problems and especially so by pointing them to Jesus  who can &#8221; sort &#8220;them out.<\/p>\n<p>Every believer must know how to listen and encourage the hurting and the weary. We must know how to comfort the troubled consciences and to speak pertinently , properly and plainly &#8220;a word in season to him who is weary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ability to do so is God&#8217;s gift which we should covet earnestly.<\/p>\n<p>Additional readings:<br \/>\nJer 31:25<br \/>\nEze 3:17<br \/>\nMt 11:28<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed weekend\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isa 50:4 &#8220;The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, he awakens My ear to hear as the learned. As believers, our main task is to minister hope in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1382,"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\/1381"}],"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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}