{"id":8550,"date":"2022-03-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=8550"},"modified":"2022-03-04T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T00:44:10","slug":"god-give-me-the-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/god-give-me-the-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"God, Give Me the Strength!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"God, Give Me the Strength! 3\/09\/22\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=sfjjw-11c2af6-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Lord is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts in him and he helps me.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Psalm 28:7.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rabbi Harold Kushner reflects on this strength. &#8220;I have seen weak people become strong,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;timid people become brave, selfish people become generous.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI have seen people care for their elderly parents, for brain damaged children, for wives in wheelchairs, for years, even decades, and I have asked myself, where do people get the strength to keep doing that for so long? Where do they get the resources of love and&nbsp;loyalty&nbsp;to keep going?&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe only answer I come up with is when we are weary and out of strength, we turn to God and God renews our strength.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe can run and not grow weary, so that we can walk and not feel faint.&#8221;<\/em>  Isaiah 40:31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When was there a time in YOUR life when YOU kept turning to God for strength and God helped YOU to make it through?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GIVE GOD YOUR WEAKNESS AND GOD WILL GIVE YOU HIS STRENGTH!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please invite others to subscribe to \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/\">www.TreatsfortheSoul.org<\/a>. It is especially great for Lent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Lord is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts in him and he helps me.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Psalm 28:7. Rabbi Harold Kushner reflects on this strength. &#8220;I have seen weak people become strong,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;timid people become brave, selfish people become generous.&nbsp; \u201cI have seen people care for their elderly parents, for brain damaged children, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair.png",252,168,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair-140x100.png",140,100,true],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woman-in-Wheelchair-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"\u201cThe Lord is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts in him and he helps me.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Psalm 28:7. 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