{"id":167,"date":"2013-12-22T01:50:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=167"},"modified":"2014-01-04T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T23:47:08","slug":"tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An encouragement from ML\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Faithful Is He Who Has Promised<\/p>\n<p>Are you passing through a testing.<br \/>\nIs your pillow wet with tears?<br \/>\nDo you wonder what the reason,<br \/>\nWhy it seems God never hears?<\/p>\n<p>Why it is you have no answer<br \/>\nTo your oft-repeated plea,<br \/>\nWhy the heaven still is leaden<br \/>\nAs you wait on bended knee?<\/p>\n<p>Do you wonder as you suffer,<br \/>\nWhether God does understand,<br \/>\nAnd if so, why He ignores you,<br \/>\nFails to hold you in His Hand?<\/p>\n<p>Do black doubts creep in, assail you,<br \/>\nFears without, and fears within,<br \/>\nTill your brave heart almost falters<br \/>\nAnd gives way to deadly sin?<\/p>\n<p>All God&#8217;s testings have a purpose-<br \/>\nSomeday you will see the light.<br \/>\nAll He asks is that you trust Him,<br \/>\nWalk by faith and not by sight.<\/p>\n<p>Do not fear when doubts beset you,<br \/>\nJust remember-He is near;<br \/>\nHe will never, never leave you,<br \/>\nHe will always, always hear.<\/p>\n<p>Faithful is He who has promised,<br \/>\nHe will never let you fall,<br \/>\nDaily will the strength be given<br \/>\nStrength for each and strength for all.<\/p>\n<p>He will gladly share pain with you,<br \/>\nHe will gladly give you peace.<br \/>\nTill your tired and weary body<br \/>\nFinds its blessed, glad release.<\/p>\n<p>When the darkened veil is lifted,<br \/>\nThen, dear heart, you&#8217;ll understand<br \/>\nWhy it is you had to suffer,<br \/>\nWhy you could not feel His hand<\/p>\n<p>Giving strength when it was needed,<br \/>\nGiving power and peace within<br \/>\nGiving joy thru tears and trial,<br \/>\nGiving victory over sin.<\/p>\n<p>So till then just keep on trusting,<br \/>\nThru the sunshine and the rain,<br \/>\nThru the tears and thru the heartaches,<br \/>\nThru the smiles and thru the pain<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that our Father watches,<br \/>\nKnowing daily strength He&#8217;ll give,<br \/>\nVictory for each passing hour,<br \/>\nThis is life, so let us live!<\/p>\n<p>By John E. Zoller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An encouragement from ML\u2026 Faithful Is He Who Has Promised Are you passing through a testing. Is your pillow wet with tears? Do you wonder what the reason, Why it seems God never hears? Why it is you have no answer To your oft-repeated plea, Why the heaven still is leaden As you wait on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tests<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,3],"tags":[42,43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140104-074658.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}