{"id":420,"date":"2020-05-30T21:39:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T04:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihsteps.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2020-05-30T21:43:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T04:43:05","slug":"scriptures-of-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Scriptures of Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cFor the word of God is living and active and<br>sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul<br>and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and<br>intentions of the heart.\u201d (Hebrews 4:12, NAS)<br>Here is a list of scriptures to lift you up. Included are verses used<br>throughout the newsletter, along with others fitting the overall theme. We<br>encourage you to use them as a daily Bible reading\/devotional and to read them<br>in context. For example: for #4 (Romans 5:18) read all of chapter 5 to get a more<br>complete understanding of the scripture. You may also want to try reading them in different versions of<br>the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hebrews 12:2<\/li><li>John 16:33<\/li><li>Genesis 2 and 3<\/li><li>Romans 5:18<\/li><li>James 4:2-3<\/li><li>Matthew 6:33<\/li><li>2 Chronicles 8<\/li><li>John 10:10<\/li><li>Acts 16<\/li><li>Philippians 4:4-7<\/li><li>Deuteronomy 16<\/li><li>Romans 8:37-39<\/li><li>2 Corinthians 4:8-9<\/li><li>John 14:27<\/li><li>Psalms 23<\/li><li>I Peter 1:8<\/li><li>Isaiah 52:7<\/li><li>Hebrews 13:8<\/li><li>Ephesians 1:3<\/li><li>Jude 24 &amp; 25<\/li><li>Philippians 1:6<\/li><li>Deuteronomy 31<\/li><li>Hebrews 4:16<\/li><li>Psalm 40:1-3<\/li><li>Isaiah 55:11-12<\/li><li>2 Chronicles 16:8-9<\/li><li>Psalm 30<\/li><li>Isaiah 35:10<\/li><li>Nehemiah 8:10<\/li><li>Psalm 28:7<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the word of God is living and active andsharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of souland spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts andintentions of the heart.\u201d (Hebrews 4:12, NAS)Here is a list of scriptures to lift you up. Included are verses usedthroughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-when-you-need","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}