{"id":11062,"date":"2014-07-23T20:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2014-07-23T20:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T20:54:16","slug":"between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11062","title":{"rendered":"Between a rock and a hard place…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was editing some older images and came upon the one above.\u00a0 I starred at for a long time, and it came to me, the title of the entry.\u00a0 Life is not always easy, sometimes it’s down right hard, hard as a rock!\u00a0 Since we all must face tough times, how do we find solutions, or at least peace?\u00a0 Jesus gave very specific instructions, “Give your burdens to me for my yoke is light.”\u00a0 Jesus knows how to bare heavy burdens, and He wants you and I to release our troubles into his care.\u00a0 His desire is that you not have to carry those burdens, but trust in Him!<\/p>\n

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For many years I did not understand the scripture passage that said, “Seek first the Kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you.”\u00a0 The previous scripture and named all of our needs in life.\u00a0 If Jesus would give His own life that we may be forgiven for our sins, how much more does He want to help you rise above the difficult times, and meet your needs.\u00a0 Many times we make the mistake of seeing Jesus as “just” a man!\u00a0 It’s true that He came down to earth to live like us and face all we faced, and teach us how to rise above it, but He is God’s Son, His power is beyond anything we could ever imagine!\u00a0 Nothing is out of His reach.<\/p>\n

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The next time you feel your world is spinning out of control, lean on the man that made the world, Jesus!<\/p>\n

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In Him,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was editing some older images and came upon the one above.\u00a0 I starred at for a long time, and it came to me, the title of the entry.\u00a0 Life is not always easy, sometimes it’s down right hard, hard as a rock!\u00a0 Since we all must face tough times, how do we find solutions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11064,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions\/11064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}