{"id":4747,"date":"2023-07-12T03:47:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2023-07-12T03:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:47:45","slug":"stop-wailing-and-start-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/12\/stop-wailing-and-start-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"STOP WAILING AND START WINNING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exo 14:15-16 Then the Lord said to Moses, \u201cWhy are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.<\/p>\n<p>Moses was confronted by  a situation where forging on either direction was impossible. This was  due to Egyptian army at the rear, Red sea on fore and impassable topography on the sides. But  God ordered him to stop crying and move on!<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of pain and helplessness ,we are prone to wail in an effort to seek relieve. But other than offering emotional solace ,wailing does  not offer a solution . Making up a  decision to quit wailing and move on is one of the best but  hardest way of dealing with issues.<\/p>\n<p>May the Spirit of winning overtake the wailing .Stand up like a child of God. Dust off your armor and put it on.  We are not called to be examples of losers but to enter into the fray to grasp good from  evil, future from  past as well as victory over victim . David faced his giant in the name of the Lord and so should we face our giants.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\n1Sam 17:58<br \/>\nPsa 18:29<br \/>\n1Joh 4:4<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed Day \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exo 14:15-16 Then the Lord said to Moses, \u201cWhy are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. Moses was confronted by a situation where forging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4748,"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\/4747"}],"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=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions\/4749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}