{"id":5878,"date":"2020-11-17T10:34:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2020-11-17T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:34:50","slug":"%ef%bb%bfi-am-with-you-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5878","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffI am with you always"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I am with you always<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(John MacDuff, \u201cThe Christian\u2019s Pathway\u201d 1858)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed,<br>&nbsp;for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you.<br>&nbsp;I will uphold you with My victorious right hand.\u201d Is. 41:10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Divine presence is . . .<br>&nbsp; the believer\u2019s strength in weakness;<br>&nbsp; his support in suffering;<br>&nbsp; his consolation in the hour of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blessed assurance, \u201cI am with you,\u201d is sufficient to<br>enliven every scene, and sweeten every condition. Its<br>realization opens springs of joy in the cheerless waste<br>of this desert world. The Divine presence . . .<br>&nbsp; dissipates the thickest darkness,<br>&nbsp; soothes the anguish of the keenest affliction, and<br>&nbsp; lightens the heaviest load of poverty and distress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reader, be anxious to possess an abiding consciousness<br>of the great truth\u2014that the eye of God is ever upon you!<br>Wherever you are, and whatever you are doing\u2014set the<br>Lord always before you. Having Him at your right hand,<br>whatever difficulties and dangers may surround your<br>path\u2014you shall not be moved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBe sure of this: I am with you always, even to<br>&nbsp;the end of the age.\u201d Matthew 28:20\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am with you always (John MacDuff, \u201cThe Christian\u2019s Pathway\u201d 1858) \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed,&nbsp;for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you.&nbsp;I will uphold you with My victorious right hand.\u201d Is. 41:10 The Divine presence is . . .&nbsp; the believer\u2019s strength [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-christ-and-his-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","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=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}