{"id":4009,"date":"2025-07-23T07:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:32:55","slug":"he-supported-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/he-supported-me\/","title":{"rendered":"He Supported Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><strong>Wednesday, July 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>He Supported Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They attacked me at a moment when I was in distress, but the Lord supported me.\u00a0<strong>Psalm 18:18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think of a tomato plant, especially those tall, fruit-bearing varieties. Without support, their stems bend and break under the weight of their own fruit. Gardeners use stakes to hold them upright, protecting the plant from collapse, disease, and pests by keeping the fruit off the ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the same way, we need the strong, steady support of our God. Life can grow heavy burdens of responsibility, spiritual battles, discouragement, and grief. If we try to carry these alone, we\u2019ll eventually break. But when we\u2019re staked to the strength of the Lord, we remain upright. We endure. We bear fruit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David knew this well. During his time as a fugitive, running from King Saul, and in countless other battles, he learned to lean on the Lord, not his own strength. And the Lord honored that trust. David wrote, \u201cIn the day of my disaster\u2026 the Lord was my support.\u201d Even on our worst days when disaster strikes, when friends disappear, when our strength is gone, God remains. He never walks away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we rely on our own wisdom or might to stand against the enemy of our souls, we will fall. But when we lean into the strength of our Deliverer, we will stand. His support is unshakable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Lord, thank You for being there even on the darkest days. You didn\u2019t abandon me when I was at my lowest. Thank You for being my support when all else gave way. Whenever I am slipping, Lord, You support me. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, July 23 He Supported Me They attacked me at a moment when I was in distress, but the Lord supported me.\u00a0Psalm 18:18 Think of a tomato plant, especially those tall, fruit-bearing varieties. Without support, their stems bend and break under the weight of their own fruit. Gardeners use stakes to hold them upright, protecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}