{"id":26079,"date":"2015-06-04T00:20:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26079"},"modified":"2015-06-02T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:55:08","slug":"positive-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/04\/positive-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0For everything that was written in the past
\nwas written to teach us,
\nso that through endurance
\nand the encouragement of the Scriptures
\nwe might have hope.<\/span>
\nRomans 15:4<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ever felt like, no matter what, things never seemed to go your way? \u00a0I believe we all have at some point. \u00a0I remember when my brother went through a bad spell that seemed to last forever. \u00a0From bad relationships to an attempt at suicide, he felt alone and desperate. \u00a0Through family, friends, and God he found his way back. \u00a0He is in a strong relationship and is happy.<\/p>\n

God will allow us to go through issues—not to keep us down, but to make us stronger. \u00a0He has to prepare us for serving Him. \u00a0It will not always be easy (as some of our brothers and sisters in Christ are finding out in other countries right now). \u00a0As we pray for them, God will help the families and people through their journey. \u00a0God has given them the hope of seeing their loved ones in heaven if they believe.<\/p>\n

God gave hope to Hannah. \u00a0Hannah was barren. \u00a0She went to the temple and prayed for God to take away her shame. \u00a0When the prophet, Eli saw her praying, he thought that she was drunk instead and questioned to\u00a0her. When she explained she was praying for what she requested of the Lord yearly, Eli sent her on her way, asking God to grant her request. \u00a0And God did. \u00a0She gave birth to a son, Samuel, whom she dedicated to the Lord. \u00a0She was also blessed with other sons and daughters for her faithfulness. (Click here<\/a> to read this account.)<\/p>\n

God still shows up in this way today. \u00a0I have some friends whose child was at the point of death and was brought back to life. \u00a0Others \u00a0who were dying of cancer and once they were prayed for, they were healed. \u00a0There is power in prayer and belief. \u00a0Within these lies our hope. \u00a0We only need to pray with confidence to our Father who can heal and restore our homes, our families, and our nations. Not just the United States, but all nations.<\/p>\n

For we have been given the commission to go and share the good news about Jesus to everyone. \u00a0We are doing this with our blogs, sharing our stories. \u00a0Sharing our life struggles and our victories in life, with the guidance \u00a0of the Holy Spirit. \u00a0God wants to use us to spread His good news!!<\/p>\n

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Father, thank You for loving us. \u00a0Thank You for sending Your Son to die for us on the Cross. \u00a0Help us continue to share Your Word—Your good news to the world. \u00a0Let the words we write honor and glorify You and Your Son, Jesus. \u00a0In Jesus’ name, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Romans 15:4 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * Ever felt like, no matter what, things never seemed to go your way? \u00a0I believe we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[7115,3367,1287,425,8942,5459,518,8961,7565,3174,1071],"class_list":["post-26079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-1-samuel-1","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-gods-word-gives-us-hope","tag-hannah","tag-hope","tag-positive-attitude","tag-romans-154","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-tina-marin","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-6MD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26079"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26128,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26079\/revisions\/26128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}