{"id":500,"date":"2008-05-24T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T00:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/05\/24\/do-not-lose-hope\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T20:55:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T00:55:22","slug":"do-not-lose-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Lose Hope."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When all of this comes to pass, My word to you is this:\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Do not lose hope.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 A plan is unfolding that you cannot clearly see.\u00c2\u00a0 If you could see it as I do, you would still hurt, but you would not lose hope.\u00c2\u00a0 You would gladly remain faithful to Me in the middle of the worst suffering.\u00c2\u00a0 I guarantee you the power to please Me, not to have a good time.\u00c2\u00a0 But pleasing Me will bring you great joy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the deepest part of your soul, you long more than anything else to be a part of My plan, to further My kingdom, to know Me and please Me and enjoy Me.\u00c2\u00a0 I will satisfy that longing.\u00c2\u00a0 You have the power to represent Me well no matter what happens in your life.\u00c2\u00a0 That is the hope I give\u00c2\u00a0 you in this world.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t lose it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Larry Crabb, <em>Shattered Dreams:\u00c2\u00a0 God&#8217;s Unexpected Pathway to Joy, <\/em>p. 46<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When all of this comes to pass, My word to you is this:\u00c2\u00a0 Do not lose hope.\u00c2\u00a0 A plan is unfolding that you cannot clearly see.\u00c2\u00a0 If you could see it as I do, you would still hurt, but you would not lose hope.\u00c2\u00a0 You would gladly remain faithful to Me in the middle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-god","category-joy","category-life","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}