{"id":1475,"date":"2020-04-23T04:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T04:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2020-04-23T04:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T04:19:42","slug":"be-of-good-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/23\/be-of-good-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"BE OF GOOD COURAGE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 27:14<br \/>\n&#8220;Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>General John Patten gave the following definition of courage, &#8221; Courage is fear that holds on for one more minute.&#8221; Franklin P. Jones said it this way, &#8221; Courage is the ability not to let people know how scared you are on the inside.&#8221;  Captain A Riddenbacher put it this way, &#8221; Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. Where there is no fear , there is no courage. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Psalmist says &#8221; Be of good courage &#8220;.  Keep up your &#8220;spirit&#8221; even in the midst of great difficulties. Keep your mind stayed \/ fixed on God. Those that wait upon the Lord have a reason to be of good courage.<\/p>\n<p>Jos 1:9 &#8221; Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additional readings;<br \/>\nPs 27:1-3<br \/>\n2Tim 1:7<br \/>\nIsa 40:30,31<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed day\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 27:14 &#8220;Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.&#8221; General John Patten gave the following definition of courage, &#8221; Courage is fear that holds on for one more minute.&#8221; Franklin P. Jones said it this way, &#8221; Courage is the ability not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1476,"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\/1475"}],"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=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}