{"id":2636,"date":"2012-12-16T07:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T15:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2012-12-16T07:41:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T15:41:54","slug":"looking-at-a-towering-stack-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/looking-at-a-towering-stack-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at a Towering Stack of Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read <i>From this day forward<\/i> by Andr\u00e9e Seu Peterson. Wow!<\/p>\n<p>Before giving you the link to her article, some excerpts to entice you with hope in the midst of failure, defeat, and discouragement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He has given me a husband who lost 30 years in addiction and 12 years in prison and who assures me constantly it\u2019s not too late because God will use every bit of it for our good, our children\u2019s good, and His glory, and will restore all the years that the locusts have eaten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;At the very time when you are finally determined to put away &#8220;it\u2019s too late now&#8221; in exchange for &#8220;All things are possible with Christ,&#8221; you are looking at a towering stack of failure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>What can God say to one so weary with failure? He says this: &#8220;Be strong, all you people of the land&#8230;Work, for I am with you&#8221; (Haggai 2:4).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"quotes\">He is not called the God of all hope for nothing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"quotes\">From this day forward He will bless you.<\/div>\n<p>Be sure to read the rest of <a href='http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/2012\/12\/from_this_day_forward'>Andr\u00e9e&#8217;s<\/a> piece!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are, may I entice you with hope in the midst of failure, defeat, and discouragement? All things are possible with Christ! He is the God of all hope.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[186,894,868],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","tag-hope","tag-inspirational","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}