{"id":1911,"date":"2012-01-16T10:48:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2012-01-16T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:48:16","slug":"a-transformational-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"A Transformational Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cCome to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.\u00a0Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.\u00a0For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Matthew 11:28-30 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Our fears, doubts and anxieties can weigh heavily on our hearts, and keep us from the abundant lives God desires us to have.\u00a0 In this transformational promise, Jesus reminds us that when we place our faith in Him and release our burdens to His care, our souls can truly find peace.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCome to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.\u00a0Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.\u00a0For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 11:28-30 (ESV) Our fears, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2562,961,321,2475,3194,2560,211,966,1180,269,783,2563,2559,2561],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-abundant-lives","tag-anxieties","tag-christ","tag-christ-jesus","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-doubts","tag-fears","tag-god","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-jesus","tag-matthew","tag-release-our-burdens","tag-transformational-promise","tag-weigh-heavily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-uP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}