{"id":17964,"date":"2023-01-15T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/?p=17964"},"modified":"2023-01-15T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:28:18","slug":"hopeless-cases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/blog\/personal-growth\/hopeless-cases-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPELESS CASES?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=&#8221;none&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;0&#8243; simplified_controls=&#8221;yes&#8221; custom_css_percentage=&#8221;no&#8221; padding_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; padding_horizontal=&#8221;0&#8243; margin_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_css=&#8221;margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;0&#8243; border_styling_global=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; el_position=&#8221;first last&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>Luke 8:26-56 tells us how Jesus dealt with &#8220;hopeless cases.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The demon-possessed man had been chained &#8220;many times but had always broken loose (v29).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The woman who touched Jesus had been bleeding for a dozen years, and&#8221;no one could heal her&#8221; (v43).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And the daughter of Jairus was dead: all hope was gone, and friends advised, &#8220;Don&#8217;t bother the Teacher anymore&#8221; (v49).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>Yet Jesus cast out the demon, restored the health of the woman, and raised the little girl from the dead.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These stories remind us of a wonderful truth. There are no &#8220;hopeless cases&#8221; with the Lord. The power of a Jesus Christ is great enough to meet every need, and to transform any sinner as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>Ask and keep on asking, seek and keep on seeking, knock and keep on knocking.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/spb_text_block]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[spb_text_block animation=&#8221;none&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;0&#8243; simplified_controls=&#8221;yes&#8221; custom_css_percentage=&#8221;no&#8221; padding_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; padding_horizontal=&#8221;0&#8243; margin_vertical=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_css=&#8221;margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;0&#8243; border_styling_global=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; el_position=&#8221;first last&#8221;] Luke 8:26-56 tells us how Jesus dealt with &#8220;hopeless cases.&#8221; The demon-possessed man had been chained &#8220;many times but had always broken loose (v29). The woman who touched Jesus had been bleeding for a dozen years, and&#8221;no one could heal her&#8221; (v43). And the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17966,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964\/revisions\/17966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}