{"id":12769,"date":"2025-06-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12769"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:21:01","slug":"divine-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/divine-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blue-and-White-Illustrative-Welcome-June-Facebook-Post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blue-and-White-Illustrative-Welcome-June-Facebook-Post.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blue-and-White-Illustrative-Welcome-June-Facebook-Post-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Blue-and-White-Illustrative-Welcome-June-Facebook-Post-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all need help.\u00a0 No matter how \u201ctogether\u201d someone appears, we all have broken parts that no one can see, except the Lord.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking golf lessons a few years ago, we talked about reading the putts, something I don\u2019t do well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s guessing, even the pros,\u201d the instructor said to me.&nbsp; Learning this helped me take some of the pressure off myself and gave me a sense of grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t feel bad about needing help; instead, understand that everyone does.&nbsp; God knows we need divine assistance, and He delivers.&nbsp; The Lord\u2019s promises provide hope we can trust, clinging to them in times of need.&nbsp; His Spirit empowers us and gives us the courage to complete our divine tasks.&nbsp; The Creator answers our cries for help and gives us directions to help us move forward, out of the valley, to the mountaintop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the ready, God\u2019s hand lends needed assistance.&nbsp; In Christ, we have salvation, and can delight in His laws as we apply them to our lives.&nbsp; Become like Jesus, love God and others with all you have, and enjoy life in abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Prayer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lord,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Thank You for giving us divine assistance every day, in every way.&nbsp; Please help us recognize Your presence and the aid You give us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">IJNIP. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. We all need help.\u00a0 No matter how \u201ctogether\u201d someone appears, we all have broken parts that no one can see, except the Lord.\u00a0 Taking golf lessons a few years ago, we talked about reading the putts, something I don\u2019t do well. \u201cEveryone\u2019s guessing, even the pros,\u201d the instructor said to me.&nbsp; Learning this&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/divine-assistance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Divine Assistance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12777,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769\/revisions\/12777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}