{"id":6660,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/antidotes-to-discouragement-remember-resist-rally\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:33","slug":"antidotes-to-discouragement-remember-resist-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/antidotes-to-discouragement-remember-resist-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Antidotes To Discouragement: Remember, Resist, Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to a group of seminary graduates, William O. Crews told them they would face times of discouragement in their ministries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are leaving here to lead people &#8230; and it is not always going to be encouraging,\u201d Crews told the graduates.<\/p>\n<p>Citing God&#8217;s discouraging mission to Nehemiah, Crews noted that the people to whom the prophet was ministering were both tired and without vision.<\/p>\n<p>When faced with discouragement, Crews exhorted the graduates to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Remember: \u201cWhen discouraged, get a fresh picture of who Christ is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Resist: \u201cFight for the family of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rally: \u201cPeople are discouraged many times because they are by themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to a group of seminary graduates, William O. Crews told them they would face times of discouragement in their ministries. \u201cYou are leaving here to lead people &#8230; and it is not always going to be encouraging,\u201d Crews told the graduates. Citing God&#8217;s discouraging mission to Nehemiah, Crews noted that the people to whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[425,404],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660"}],"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=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}