{"id":732,"date":"2008-12-08T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T14:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=732"},"modified":"2008-12-08T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T14:45:11","slug":"dont-stay-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/dont-stay-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Stay Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=150 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Proverbs 24:13-23<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been &#8220;down&#8221; before.<\/p>\n<p>Even recently.<\/p>\n<p>Spiritually, emotionally, financially, socially, morally, physically, businesswise-ly &#8212; like I say, I&#8217;ve been &#8220;down&#8221; before. (Thankfully, not all at once!)<\/p>\n<p>So why does it keep happening?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t know all the reasons, but one is simple: I keep getting back up.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (16).<\/p>\n<p>By God&#8217;s grace, I&#8217;ll keep getting back up.<\/p>\n<p>And by God&#8217;s grace, my &#8220;down&#8221; times will become farther and farther apart.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/respectofpersons-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/respectofpersons-s.jpg\" alt=\"[It is not good to have respect of persons (Proverbs 24:23)]\" title=\"It is not good to have respect of persons (Proverbs 24:23)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Proverbs 24:23<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Proverbs 24:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8808\"><font color=green>Spiritual Honeycomb<\/font><\/a><\/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>Reading: Proverbs 24:13-23 I&#8217;ve been &#8220;down&#8221; before. Even recently. Spiritually, emotionally, financially, socially, morally, physically, businesswise-ly &#8212; like I say, I&#8217;ve been &#8220;down&#8221; before. (Thankfully, not all at once!) So why does it keep happening? Well, I don&#8217;t know all the reasons, but one is simple: I keep getting back up. &#8220;For a just man [&hellip;]<!-- 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[40,39,48,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-assurance","8":"tag-encouragement","9":"tag-hang-in-there","10":"tag-tribulation","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-bO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}