{"id":1715,"date":"2022-04-07T01:52:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T01:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2022-04-05T17:54:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:54:27","slug":"dont-be-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/dont-be-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday,\u00a0April 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t be afraid\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.\u00a0<strong>Isaiah 43:2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What are you afraid of right now? Afraid you\u2019re not good enough. Afraid you\u2019ve screwed this thing up beyond repair. Afraid you\u2019re in over your head and can\u2019t make it work. Afraid you don\u2019t have what it takes and this is as far as you will ever go. Afraid if your truth is told, bad things will happen. Afraid you will always be stuck here. Afraid this is the end. Regardless of what your answer to these questions are, I\u2019d like to remind you that God remains in control.<\/p>\n<p>Tucked away in God\u2019s word is a sweet and powerful promise to you from your Creator.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 43:2 says, \u2018<em>When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you<\/em>.\u2019 Did you hear that? This fear, the one you just identified, God wants to lift that from you now. This is a promise you were destined to be reminded of on this very day of your life. God makes it very clear, life is not a matter of if you ever get in over your head, it\u2019s WHEN you do and when you do, God promises to be there with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday,\u00a0April 7 Don\u2019t be afraid\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.\u00a0Isaiah 43:2 What are you afraid of right now? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}