{"id":22655,"date":"2022-06-14T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=22655"},"modified":"2022-06-14T18:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T00:09:16","slug":"current-favorite-scriptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/current-favorite-scriptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Scriptures for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.&#8221;<\/p><cite>1 Samuel 30:6<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David was in a pretty bleak situation, and people around him were grieved. &#8220;But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my personal scripture phrase of the week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. I can encourage myself, and not wait around for someone to fix things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. I can trust the Lord&#8217;s strength, not my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, my favorite scripture phrase was,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I perceive that ye are weak&#8221;<\/p><cite>3 Nephi 17:2<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lord does know that I am weak, but I find comfort in this: the same &#8220;weak&#8221; people who couldn&#8217;t understand all that the Lord had to share, Jesus also told them they had &#8220;great faith.&#8221; (3 Nephi 19:35)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love when people are described by really different adjectives in the scriptures. Everyone has a lot of dimensions to their character, and the Lord understands this about us. He knows we are not perfect (complete) and being weak doesn&#8217;t mean we can&#8217;t have greatness in other areas. Being weak can also be the impetus for great faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.&#8221; 1 Samuel 30:6 David was in a pretty bleak situation, and people around him were grieved. &#8220;But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.&#8221; This is my personal scripture phrase of the week. 1. I can encourage myself, and not wait around for someone to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/current-favorite-scriptures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Current Scriptures for Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36,20,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon","category-jesus-christ","category-life-according-to-angela","category-old-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22655"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22670,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655\/revisions\/22670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}