{"id":17406,"date":"2017-10-22T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T12:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=17406"},"modified":"2017-10-22T07:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T12:59:28","slug":"soap-keeping-hope-in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/soap-keeping-hope-in-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"SOAP: Keeping Hope in Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scripture:<\/h3>\n

20 “Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers. 21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. 22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more”\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

-Job 8:20-22<\/span><\/p>\n

Observation:<\/h3>\n

God loves us. \u00a0He has reason. \u00a0He will listen to the cries of the blameless\/righteous (we become that way by following Jesus, <\/span>by the way!!) and He will bring joy to them and trample their enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Application:<\/h3>\n

In my frustration<\/span>, when I feel attacked from one angle or all — when bad stuff just keeps coming, I need to remember that joy <\/span>will<\/span> come. <\/span><\/p>\n

My t<\/span>rust in Jesus makes me blameless — and God will not reject a blameless man. \u00a0He WILL fill my mouth with laughter and lips with joy. I need to hang tight in faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prayer:<\/h3>\n

Father God, thank you for this affirmation of your love of us, for this reminder of truth. \u00a0Joy will come. \u00a0Evil will be overcome. Love will reign. \u00a0You are in charge. <\/span><\/p>\n

Amen. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scripture: 20 “Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers. 21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. 22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more”\u00a0 \u00a0 -Job 8:20-22 Observation: God […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[672],"class_list":["post-17406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-soap-devotionals","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17409,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406\/revisions\/17409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}