{"id":5565,"date":"2024-05-06T02:08:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T02:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2024-05-06T02:08:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T02:08:58","slug":"colour-your-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2024\/05\/06\/colour-your-future\/","title":{"rendered":"COLOUR YOUR FUTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prov 23:18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.<\/p>\n<p>The mind has the ability to capture an image of the unseen .Depending with the person seeing ,the image can be magnificent  and decorated with colours or blurred with no  catching ability. Its a God given ability to His children to create ,possess and walk into these future before time as  Solomon encourages us<\/p>\n<p>We have two options on how to proceed: We can fashion our tomorrows according to our own desires and fears, without any surety that any of it will come to pass .Secondly , we can participate in our own becoming, collaborating with Christ as He creates our future one day at a time\u2014a future that will last and be fulfilling beyond our wildest imagination.<\/p>\n<p>We can choose to remain in the smallness of our finite capacities, or we can grow into our God-given freedom, honing it the way an artist realizes his\/her talent by mastering both materials and techniques one painting at a time. The blunter way of saying this is, we can either make tomorrow in our own perishable image, or we can co-create a future that will last into eternity. We do the latter by allowing the Lord to guide and teach us how to fulfill His intentions for our life.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nIsa 64:4<br \/>\nJer 29:11<br \/>\n1Co 2:9<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed Week \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prov 23:18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. The mind has the ability to capture an image of the unseen .Depending with the person seeing ,the image can be magnificent and decorated with colours or blurred with no catching ability. Its a God given ability to His&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5566,"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\/5565"}],"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=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}