{"id":231,"date":"2014-04-02T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-02-21T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T22:00:23","slug":"storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2014\/04\/02\/storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(I received the following yesterday evening via email and wanted to pass it along. It is an excerpt from the devotional book, &#8220;Streams in the Desert&#8221; by Mrs. Charles Cowman.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;In fierce storms,&#8221; said an old seaman, &#8220;we must do one thing; there is only one way: we must put the ship in a certain position and keep her there.&#8221;\u00a0This, Christian, is what you must do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sometimes, like Paul, you can see neither sun nor stars, and no small tempest lies on you; and then you can do but one thing; there is only one way.\u00a0Reason cannot help you; past experiences give you no light. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/faith\/prayer\/\">prayer<\/a> fetches no consolation. Only a single course is left. You must put your soul in one position and keep it there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>You must stay upon the Lord; and come what may&#8211;winds, waves, cross-seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks, roaring breakers&#8211;no matter what, you must lash yourself to the helm, and hold fast your confidence in God&#8217;s faithfulness, His covenant engagement, His everlasting love in Christ Jesus. <em>&#8211;Richard Fuller<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><strong>~ Rachel ~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I received the following yesterday evening via email and wanted to pass it along. It is an excerpt from the devotional book, &#8220;Streams in the Desert&#8221; by Mrs. Charles Cowman.) &#8220;In fierce storms,&#8221; said an old seaman, &#8220;we must do one thing; there is only one way: we must put the ship in a certain position and keep her there.&#8221;\u00a0This, Christian, is what you must do. Sometimes, like Paul, you can see neither sun nor stars, and no small tempest lies on you; and then you can do but one thing; there is only one way.\u00a0Reason cannot help you; past experiences give you no light. Even prayer fetches no consolation. Only a single course is left. You must put your soul in one position and keep it there. You must stay upon the Lord; and come what may&#8211;winds, waves, cross-seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks, roaring breakers&#8211;no matter what, you must lash yourself to the helm, and hold fast your confidence in God&#8217;s faithfulness, His covenant engagement, His everlasting love in Christ Jesus. &#8211;Richard Fuller ~ Rachel ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-gods-promises","category-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4o6C2-storms","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}