{"id":7846,"date":"2018-04-10T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2021-07-08T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:48:07","slug":"learning-faith-through-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2018\/04\/10\/learning-faith-through-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Faith Through Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This past Sunday, I received the following from a dear sister &#8211; what a sweet surprise! She said she thought of me when she saw it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FaithMakesAllThingsPossibleSign-e1523370771331.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7847\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FaithMakesAllThingsPossibleSign-e1523370771331-768x1024.jpg?resize=768%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FaithMakesAllThingsPossibleSign-e1523370771331.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FaithMakesAllThingsPossibleSign-e1523370771331.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FaithMakesAllThingsPossibleSign-e1523370771331.jpg?w=1512&amp;ssl=1 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This morning&#8217;s devotional from <em>Streams in the Desert <\/em>certainly gave me something to ponder today. As&nbsp;some of you know, my desire for quite awhile now has been to better understand <strong>FAITH.<\/strong> And, I must say, the Lord has been FAITHFUL to His Word as stated in James:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>&#8220;If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.&#8221; James 1:5&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m so thankful for that verse and have claimed it quite often! God&nbsp;loves for His children to&nbsp;<strong>ask<\/strong> for&nbsp;wisdom and when we do, He will not scold us for asking! On the contrary, He will&nbsp;be faithful to&nbsp;give us better understanding in the things of the Lord as we&nbsp;diligently seek after those&nbsp;treasures!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>&#8220;My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;&nbsp;So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;&nbsp;Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;&nbsp;If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;&nbsp;Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.&nbsp;For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.&#8221; Proverbs 2:1-6&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below is the devotional on&nbsp;FAITH&nbsp;to which I was referring &#8211; a reminder that, very often, the best way to grow&nbsp;in understanding is through trials&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StreamsInTheDesertDevoApril10.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7848\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StreamsInTheDesertDevoApril10.jpg?resize=947%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"947\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StreamsInTheDesertDevoApril10.jpg?resize=947%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 947w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StreamsInTheDesertDevoApril10.jpg?resize=278%2C300&amp;ssl=1 278w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StreamsInTheDesertDevoApril10.jpg?resize=768%2C830&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StreamsInTheDesertDevoApril10.jpg?w=1184&amp;ssl=1 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday, I received the following from a dear sister &#8211; what a sweet surprise! She said she thought of me when she saw it. \ud83d\ude42 This morning&#8217;s devotional from Streams in the Desert certainly gave me something to ponder today. As&nbsp;some of you know, my desire for quite awhile now has been to better understand FAITH. And, I must say, the Lord has been FAITHFUL to His Word as stated in James: &#8220;If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.&#8221; James 1:5&nbsp; I&#8217;m so thankful for that verse and have claimed it quite often! God&nbsp;loves for His children to&nbsp;ask for&nbsp;wisdom and when we do, He will not scold us for asking! On the contrary, He will&nbsp;be faithful to&nbsp;give us better understanding in the things of the Lord as we&nbsp;diligently seek after those&nbsp;treasures! &#8220;My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;&nbsp;So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;&nbsp;Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;&nbsp;If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;&nbsp;Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.&nbsp;For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.&#8221; Proverbs 2:1-6&nbsp;&nbsp; Below is the devotional on&nbsp;FAITH&nbsp;to which I was referring &#8211; a reminder that, very often, the best way to grow&nbsp;in understanding is through trials&#8230;<\/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":[3,7,8,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-growing","category-trials","category-wisdom-discernment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-22y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846","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=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11266,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions\/11266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}