{"id":3471,"date":"2015-10-31T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2015-10-31T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T10:19:20","slug":"faith-keeps-the-soul-from-sinking-under-heavy-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3471","title":{"rendered":"Faith keeps the soul from sinking under heavy trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Psa%2013.6\">Psa 13:6<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Faith keeps the soul from sinking under heavy trials, by bringing in<br \/>\nformer experiences of the power, mercy, and faithfulness of God to the<br \/>\nafflicted soul. Hereby was the psalmist supported in distress. Oh, saith<br \/>\nfaith, remember what God hath done both for thy outward and inward man:<br \/>\nhe hath not only delivered thy body when in trouble, but he hath done<br \/>\ngreat things for thy soul; he hath brought thee out of a state of black<br \/>\nnature, entered into a covenant relation with thee, made his goodness<br \/>\npass before thee; he hath helped thee to pray, and many times hath heard<br \/>\nthy prayers and thy tears. Hath he not formerly brought thee out of the<br \/>\nhorrible pit, and out of the miry clay, and put a new song in thy mouth,<br \/>\nand made thee to resolve never to give way to such unbelieving thoughts<br \/>\nand fears again? and how unbecoming it is for thee now to sink in trouble?<\/p>\n<p>John Willison (1680-1750)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. (Psa 13:6) Faith keeps the soul from sinking under heavy trials, by bringing in former experiences of the power, mercy, and faithfulness of God to the afflicted soul. Hereby was the psalmist supported in distress. Oh, saith faith, remember what God hath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taught-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}