{"id":5879,"date":"2024-09-13T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2024-09-13T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:49:12","slug":"dont-be-afraid-just-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/13\/dont-be-afraid-just-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"DON&#8217;T BE AFRAID; JUST BELIEVE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 5:36 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid; just believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jairus had just received the breaking news. &#8220;Your daughter is dead&#8221;. Indeed the news must have been overwhelming enough to break the heart of any strong believer. How often have been bombarded by unpleasant news that cause to us despair?<\/p>\n<p>Overhearing what they had said, Jesus told Jairus &#8221; Don&#8217;t be afraid, just believe&#8221;.  He knew there was a possibility of panic. He knew that such information had the capacity to cause turmoil, desperateness and  frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus has overheard the negative &#8221; breaking news&#8221; and he is whispering, &#8221; don&#8217;t be afraid, just believe &#8220;.   I like the song that says &#8221; *With Jesus in your life you Will smile&#8230;.you will really smile .. Smile away all fears.( Ann Mker) He is in control. When the enemy whispers,  listen to the words of Jesus. They are final and his solutions are workable.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\n2Co.1:9<br \/>\nRom 4:18<br \/>\nJer 29:11<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed Weekend \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 5:36 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid; just believe.\u201d Jairus had just received the breaking news. &#8220;Your daughter is dead&#8221;. Indeed the news must have been overwhelming enough to break the heart of any strong believer. How often have been bombarded by unpleasant news that cause to us despair? Overhearing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5880,"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\/5879"}],"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=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}