{"id":380,"date":"2004-05-21T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T02:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=380"},"modified":"2004-05-21T10:40:26","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T02:40:26","slug":"words-of-encouragement-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/words-of-encouragement-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of encouragement (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 81:1a: \u00a0<em>Sing for joy to God our strength;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I learn to trade my strength for God&#8217;s strength.<\/p>\n<p>The passage is hard to understand.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know how, nor i can understand how.<\/p>\n<p>But i can believe it to be so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 81:1a: \u00a0Sing for joy to God our strength; &nbsp; I learn to trade my strength for God&#8217;s strength. The passage is hard to understand. I do not know how, nor i can understand how. 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