{"id":6634,"date":"2025-08-07T03:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2025-08-07T03:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:51:23","slug":"%f0%9d%99%89%f0%9d%99%8a%f0%9d%99%8f-%f0%9d%99%85%f0%9d%99%90%f0%9d%99%8e%f0%9d%99%8f-%f0%9d%99%8e%f0%9d%99%90%f0%9d%99%8d%f0%9d%99%91%f0%9d%99%84%f0%9d%99%91%f0%9d%99%84%f0%9d%99%89%f0%9d%99%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/07\/%f0%9d%99%89%f0%9d%99%8a%f0%9d%99%8f-%f0%9d%99%85%f0%9d%99%90%f0%9d%99%8e%f0%9d%99%8f-%f0%9d%99%8e%f0%9d%99%90%f0%9d%99%8d%f0%9d%99%91%f0%9d%99%84%f0%9d%99%91%f0%9d%99%84%f0%9d%99%89%f0%9d%99%82\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud835\ude49\ud835\ude4a\ud835\ude4f \ud835\ude45\ud835\ude50\ud835\ude4e\ud835\ude4f \ud835\ude4e\ud835\ude50\ud835\ude4d\ud835\ude51\ud835\ude44\ud835\ude51\ud835\ude44\ud835\ude49\ud835\ude42, \ud835\ude3d\ud835\ude50\ud835\ude4f \ud835\ude4f\ud835\ude43\ud835\ude4d\ud835\ude44\ud835\ude51\ud835\ude44\ud835\ude49\ud835\ude42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jer 17:7\u20138 (KJV) \u2014 \u201cBlessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord\u2026 he shall be as a tree planted by the waters\u2026 and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s plan for your life was never mere survival. The goal is not to limp through life spiritually dehydrated, emotionally drained, or mentally defeated. Jesus came not just to save, but to saturate\u2014to fill us with life that overflows. Thriving isn\u2019t about perfect circumstances; it\u2019s about rootedness in the right source.<\/p>\n<p>Consider Daniel in Babylon\u2014an exile in a foreign land, yet he thrived. He rose in leadership, excelled in wisdom, and preserved integrity in a hostile environment (Daniel 1\u20136). Or think of Esther, an orphan-turned-queen, who didn\u2019t just survive palace politics but influenced an empire. Thriving often emerges not in the absence of adversity but in how we respond to it with faith, wisdom, and obedience.<\/p>\n<p>God invites us to be like trees planted by living water\u2014not dependent on rain but rooted in His river. Survival focuses on getting by; thriving looks at bearing fruit, blessing others, and advancing the Kingdom. Don\u2019t settle for existence when you\u2019re called to excellence. In Christ, even wilderness seasons can become places of growth.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nPsa 1:1\u20133<br \/>\nIsa 58:11<br \/>\n3 John 1:2<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed Day\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jer 17:7\u20138 (KJV) \u2014 \u201cBlessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord\u2026 he shall be as a tree planted by the waters\u2026 and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.\u201d God\u2019s plan for your life was never mere survival. The goal is not to limp through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6635,"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\/6634"}],"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=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}