{"id":13259,"date":"2019-06-02T21:05:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T20:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=13259"},"modified":"2019-08-14T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:19:22","slug":"sunday-thots-be-encouraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=13259","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY THOTS: Be Encouraged!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>No matter what comes your way, God is not surprised. Your challenge was not sent to defeat you; it was sent to increase you.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote-1.jpg 485w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Difficulties and obstacles are God&#8217;s challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote2-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote2-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote3-652x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"1107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote3-652x1024.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote3-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/quote3.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope these words encourage someone who might be going through some difficult situation. Hold on and trust God in ALL situations. You will come out better. Be encouraged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what comes your way, God is not surprised. Your challenge was not sent to defeat you; it was sent to increase you. Difficulties and obstacles are God&#8217;s challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus. God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better. I hope these words encourage someone who might be going through some difficult situation. Hold on and trust God in ALL situations. You will come out better. Be encouraged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,546],"tags":[59,508,294,297],"class_list":["post-13259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-sunday-thots","tag-inspiration","tag-motivation","tag-sunday","tag-sunday-thots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13269,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13259\/revisions\/13269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}