{"id":5180,"date":"2023-12-08T04:09:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T04:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2023-12-08T04:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T04:09:37","slug":"god-helps-those-who-cant-help-themselves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2023\/12\/08\/god-helps-those-who-cant-help-themselves-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD HELPS THOSE WHO CAN&#8217;T  HELP THEMSELVES ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 107:18 Their soul abhorred all manner of food, And they drew near to the gates of death.<br \/>\nPsa 107:19 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses.<\/p>\n<p>This is a vivid description of a dying man. The appetite is gone and all the desire for food fails. Nutriment is no longer necessary for death has seized upon the whole frame . However, when help is sought from our heavenly father,He saves them from their trouble .<\/p>\n<p>When we come to our wits end, that&#8217;s the very moment we discover that God does not help those who help themselves.   He will always be there for  those who turn to him for help.<\/p>\n<p>We can always  turn to God for assistance because &#8221;  He is the very present help in the time of trouble&#8221;. He can bring back every dead situation to life again.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nPsa 30:8-12<br \/>\nPsa 116 :4-8<br \/>\nJer 33:3<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd Blessed Weekend \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 107:18 Their soul abhorred all manner of food, And they drew near to the gates of death. Psa 107:19 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses. This is a vivid description of a dying man. The appetite is gone and all the desire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5181,"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\/5180"}],"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=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}