{"id":1093,"date":"2018-04-17T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2018-04-17T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:51:13","slug":"rejoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/2018\/04\/17\/rejoice\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejoice!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summer and I a couple days before malaria round 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Having malaria two times in three months does not make me automatically think “rejoice”.\u00a0 But it should.<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Because it draws me closer to the Lord.\u00a0 I found myself seeking Him in ways I would not have otherwise.<\/p>\n

Psalm 28:7 says, “The Lord is my strength and my shield;\u00a0 My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped;\u00a0 Therefore my heart greatly rejoice, And with my song I will praise Him.”<\/p>\n

If I believe that, I can and should rejoice.\u00a0 So that’s what I’m doing.<\/p>\n

I’m rejoicing that when Summer and I got malaria this time around, we knew it within hours (we recognized what we were feeling right away).\u00a0 I’m rejoicing that we only had to take a 10 minute boat ride to be tested and get the necessary medicine instead of a two hour trip all the way to town.\u00a0 I’m rejoicing that we had the weekend to rest over during the worst part of it.\u00a0 I’m rejoicing that this time around, it was not nearly as bad.\u00a0 I’m rejoicing that Joel and the boys were able and willing to take care of us.\u00a0 So many things to rejoice in if only we look.<\/p>\n

So today I encourage you to rejoice.\u00a0 I don’t know what is going on in your life.\u00a0 Maybe hard things.\u00a0 Maybe you can’t seem to find anything to rejoice in.\u00a0 But don’t worry.\u00a0 I’ve got ya covered.\u00a0 You can rejoice in the fact that malaria helped me loose a few pounds!\u00a0 Just kidding.\u00a0 Well, I did, but that’s not what you need to rejoice about.\u00a0 Rejoice that God loves you.\u00a0 He really does.\u00a0Have a blessed day friends!<\/p>\n

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View from our porch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having malaria two times in three months does not make me automatically think “rejoice”.\u00a0 But it should. Why?\u00a0 Because it draws me closer to the Lord.\u00a0 I found myself seeking Him in ways I would not have otherwise. Psalm 28:7 says, “The Lord is my strength and my shield;\u00a0 My heart trusted in Him, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448],"class_list":{"0":"post-1093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}