{"id":3144,"date":"2021-09-03T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2021-09-23T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:26:39","slug":"friendly-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/03\/friendly-fire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIENDLY FIRE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mic 7:6 For son dishonors father, daughter rises against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man&#8217;s enemies are the men of his own house.<\/p>\n<p>Friendly fire is defined as a shooting that hits you from your own side, not from the enemy (Cambridge Dictionary). If you come under friendly fire during a battle, you will be shot by a people on your own side, rather than your enemy ( Collins Dictionary)<\/p>\n<p>Prophet Micah witnessed his society disintegrate. The moral fabric and social cohesion was in a mess. Homes and families had disintegrated to the point that no one could trust a friend. Husbands and  wives could not trust each other. Children rebelled against their parents making family members their enemies.<\/p>\n<p> We have been wounded by close affiliates, family  and church members. When it happens, kindly don&#8217;t fight back, allow the Lord to fight your battles. Wisdom , forbearance, forgiveness and resilience will help you keep your head high during such moments.<\/p>\n<p>Pro 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nGen 50:15-21<br \/>\nZec 13:6<br \/>\nLuk 22:48<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed Weekend\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mic 7:6 For son dishonors father, daughter rises against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man&#8217;s enemies are the men of his own house. Friendly fire is defined as a shooting that hits you from your own side, not from the enemy (Cambridge Dictionary). If you come under friendly fire during a battle, you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3148,"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\/3144"}],"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=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}