{"id":7783,"date":"2018-03-25T07:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T11:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2018-03-25T07:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T11:16:32","slug":"faith-for-desperate-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2018\/03\/25\/faith-for-desperate-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith For Desperate Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In my continuing quest to better understand faith, Scripture passages as well as devotionals such as the one below\u00a0continue to\u00a0stand\u00a0out to\u00a0me.\u00a0This morning, I&#8217;m\u00a0going to\u00a0write\u00a0the following phrase\u00a0from\u00a0today&#8217;s devotional in <em>Streams in the Desert<\/em> in my journal. I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s a thought\u00a0of which I will need to be reminded in days ahead!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;The only alternative to a desperate faith is despair, and faith holds on and prevails.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like that.<\/p>\n<p>Below is this morning&#8217;s devotional in its entirety:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7784\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25.jpg?resize=683%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25.jpg?resize=768%2C1151&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25.jpg?w=1320&amp;ssl=1 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25Part2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7785\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25Part2.jpg?resize=960%2C678\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25Part2.jpg?resize=1024%2C723&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25Part2.jpg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25Part2.jpg?resize=768%2C542&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25Part2.jpg?resize=425%2C300&amp;ssl=1 425w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StreamsInTheDesertMarch25Part2.jpg?w=1510&amp;ssl=1 1510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my continuing quest to better understand faith, Scripture passages as well as devotionals such as the one below\u00a0continue to\u00a0stand\u00a0out to\u00a0me.\u00a0This morning, I&#8217;m\u00a0going to\u00a0write\u00a0the following phrase\u00a0from\u00a0today&#8217;s devotional in Streams in the Desert in my journal. I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s a thought\u00a0of which I will need to be reminded in days ahead! &#8220;The only alternative to a desperate faith is despair, and faith holds on and prevails.&#8221; I like that. Below is this morning&#8217;s devotional in its entirety:<\/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":[3,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-perseverance","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-21x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7786,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}