{"id":3436,"date":"2022-02-04T03:29:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T03:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2022-02-04T03:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T03:29:33","slug":"trusting-god-when-life-knocks-you-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2022\/02\/04\/trusting-god-when-life-knocks-you-down\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUSTING GOD WHEN LIFE KNOCKS YOU DOWN."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 145:14 The LORD upholds all who fall, And raises up all those who are bowed down.<\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew term samak ( uphold) talks of God&#8217;s sustenance and support for his people. This is in regard to those who find themselves at the &#8220;rock bottom&#8221;. The Psalmist emphasizes God&#8217;s faithful provision. He is the one who defends the most vulnerable citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Life and it&#8217;s intrigues can get you into unprecedented situations and circumstances. And like Job, life can knock you down and cause you to start imagining that &#8221; your end has come&#8221;. This could be challenges at work place, toxic relationship, poor business ,sickness just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is ; The LORD upholds all who fall, And raises up all those who are bowed down. He locates them , sustains them and raises them up. Mic 7:8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\n1Sa 2:8,<br \/>\nPsa 72:12<br \/>\nPsa 146:8<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed Weekend\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 145:14 The LORD upholds all who fall, And raises up all those who are bowed down. The Hebrew term samak ( uphold) talks of God&#8217;s sustenance and support for his people. This is in regard to those who find themselves at the &#8220;rock bottom&#8221;. The Psalmist emphasizes God&#8217;s faithful provision. He is the one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3437,"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\/3436"}],"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=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}