{"id":702,"date":"2008-11-15T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/ready-for-some-good-news\/"},"modified":"2014-01-02T20:48:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T02:48:49","slug":"ready-for-some-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReady for some good news? . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus Christ is stronger!<\/p>\n<p>Stronger than my fears about the future or my shame over a past that cannot be altered though I wish so much I could do some things differently.<\/p>\n<p>Stronger than my tired prayers with well-worn phrases and weary pleas.<\/p>\n<p>Stronger than my need to know now, and have the trial terminated.<\/p>\n<p>Stronger than the enemy of my soul who would discourage me with my own failings and disillusion me with the faults of others.<\/p>\n<p>Such a simple truth\u2014Jesus Christ is Stronger. \u2018Stronger than what,\u2019 you ask? Stronger than whatever would cause you doubt or discouragement today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014James McDonald, \u201cJesus Christ is Stronger\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(HT: Tim Challies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus Christ is stronger! Stronger than my fears about the future or my shame over a past that cannot be altered though I wish so much I could do some things differently. Stronger than my tired prayers with well-worn phrases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=702\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5025,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}