{"id":4065,"date":"2025-11-04T18:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:44:15","slug":"perspective-on-trials-and-afflictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"Perspective on Trials and Afflictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4065\" class=\"elementor elementor-4065\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1abaa7c4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1abaa7c4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7433151a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7433151a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Perspective on Trials and Afflictions<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d740393 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4d740393\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ba13ae7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ba13ae7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How awesome it is to write about great successes, souls being saved, baptisms and the church increasing in blessings.\u00a0 While it\u2019s tremendous to write these reports, it\u2019s not the whole story if you omit reporting afflictions. \u00a0 Successes are far greater in light of afflictions of the faith. <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b><i>But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions.\u201d (HEB. 10:32)<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Afflictions follow \u201cillumination\u201d and they can have two results.\u00a0 They will either make you or break you as seen in Mark 4:17.\u00a0 What I want to emphasize is how much greater the successes are while enduring affliction for faith in Christ Jesus.\u00a0 Be encouraged with us if you are afflicted for your faith in the Lord.\u00a0 I believe that is the thing I am experiencing now.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perspective on Trials and Afflictions How awesome it is to write about great successes, souls being saved, baptisms and the church increasing in blessings.\u00a0 While it\u2019s tremendous to write these reports, it\u2019s not the whole story if you omit reporting afflictions. \u00a0 Successes are far greater in light of afflictions of the faith. \u201cBut call 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