{"id":6374,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/toxic-discouragement\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:16","slug":"toxic-discouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/toxic-discouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Discouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biblical antidotes to Life&#8217;s Toxins:  Discouragement.<\/p>\n<p> Seven causes of toxic discouragement:<br \/>\n    1. Criticism.                    Neh 4:1-5<br \/>\n    2. The half-way syndrome.            4:6<br \/>\n    3. Opposition.                       4:7-9<br \/>\n    4. Loss of strength.                 4:10<br \/>\n    5. Loss of vision.                   4:10<br \/>\n    6. Loss of confidence.               4:11<br \/>\n    7. Negative thinking.                4:12<\/p>\n<p> Five antidotes to defeat discouragement.<br \/>\n    1. He united the people around the same vision.                  4:13<br \/>\n    2. He directed their attention from their problems to the Lord.  4:14<br \/>\n    3. He encouraged them to keep their balance.                     4:15-18<br \/>\n    4. He gave them a plan for their defense.                        4:19-20<br \/>\n    5. He involved them in serving others.                           4:21-23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biblical antidotes to Life&#8217;s Toxins: Discouragement. Seven causes of toxic discouragement: 1. Criticism. Neh 4:1-5 2. The half-way syndrome. 4:6 3. Opposition. 4:7-9 4. Loss of strength. 4:10 5. Loss of vision. 4:10 6. Loss of confidence. 4:11 7. Negative thinking. 4:12 Five antidotes to defeat discouragement. 1. He united the people around the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1642,81,425,143,1627,1644,1643,1090,590,1645,327],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}