{"id":5424,"date":"2024-03-12T01:59:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2024-03-12T01:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:59:51","slug":"5424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/12\/5424\/","title":{"rendered":"DESPISE NOT SMALL BEGINNINGS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job 8:6 if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and prosper your rightful habitation.<br \/>\nJob 8:7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly.<\/p>\n<p>The above words were spoken by Bildad the Shuhite, one of Job&#8217;s friend. Bildad talked like God&#8217;s  &#8221; defence attorney&#8221;. He was of the view that although Job had lost everything including his children, he would rise again &#8221; But because God had spared Job&#8217;s life, there was yet hope for a change in Job&#8217;s fortunes &#8221; (Holman Study Bible, NKJV Edition)<\/p>\n<p>Though Job was at his lowest level in life ,God was going to arise on his behalf. Although he was at the rock bottom , great was his end. Job 42:12 Now the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings ( Isa 3:10). Don&#8217;t worry about your humble beginnings. Don&#8217;t worry about starting small. You don&#8217;t need to start that project in a grand style to finish it in a grand style. The fact that you started small does not mean you will end small (Sam oluwatoki &#8211; Word press.com ). Your vision is not beyond the reality .<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nDeu 5:33<br \/>\nPsa 25:13<br \/>\nJer 29:11<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed Day \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job 8:6 if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and prosper your rightful habitation. Job 8:7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly. The above words were spoken by Bildad the Shuhite, one of Job&#8217;s friend. Bildad talked like God&#8217;s &#8221; defence attorney&#8221;. He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5425,"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\/5424"}],"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=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}