{"id":3403,"date":"2014-07-16T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2014-07-15T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T01:25:22","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-7-16-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-7-16-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 7-16-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Matthew 11:28-29 (NKJV) 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Are you heavy laden? Are you burdened with the cares of the world and the things that come against you, relentlessly pounding against you like waves in a storm?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Sometimes we can feel so helpless and powerless to do anything about the battles that we face each day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">But God isn&#8217;t powerless. He sent His Son to give us rest. Jesus came so that we could lay our burdens down and find rest in Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The battles that we fight here on earth can suck the life from us. They can leave us feeling like we&#8217;re finished and can&#8217;t move ahead one more inch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">But it&#8217;s not over. We&#8217;re not finished and we&#8217;re not defeated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Reach out and take hold of Jesus and rest in Him. Draw your strength from Him. Don&#8217;t worry right now about what you&#8217;re to do next. Just rest and let Him breathe new life into you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">We can never win battles when we are weary. It&#8217;s only after we find rest and get our strength again that we can see clearly and move forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">But for today, rest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor Curt &amp; Pastor Ellie<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Seven Seas Ministries<\/span><br \/>\n<span>P.O. Box 272<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Bradford, RI 02808<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>401-315-0902<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c29;\">If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c29;\">To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please enter your email address in the box near the upper right corner of this page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 11:28-29 (NKJV) 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Are you heavy laden? Are you burdened with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[1245,1588,511,1589],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resting-in-god","tag-finding-rest-in-jesus-2","tag-jesus-came-to-give-us-rest","tag-resting-in-god-2","tag-resting-when-were-weary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}