{"id":59489,"date":"2022-08-28T13:41:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59489"},"modified":"2022-08-28T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T13:41:22","slug":"finding-a-song-in-the-midst-of-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59489","title":{"rendered":"Finding a song in the midst of storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Larmani (not her real name) is one believer with an infectious joy and energy. *<b>Her patent phrase is, &#8220;God is good, all the time&#8221;<\/b>*. It&#8217;s rare not find her with a psalm and song of praise.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>All this changed in Larmani&#8217;s life when she encountered a series of storms<\/b>*. First it was an engagement broken, just months to her wedding, then an\u00a0 unexpected job loss. Her world came tumbling, she lost her song and demeanour. Who will not.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>The devil works on a two-prone attack deny, deplete or kill our faith and joy in the Lord<\/b>*. He either blinds us to God or to His goodness, especially in our &#8216;strange lands&#8217; of storms. Yet that is when we need Him and His joy most.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;&#8230; I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0never ends! His mercies never cease&#8230;His mercies begin afresh each morning (Lam. 3:21-23, NLT)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>Whatever else the devil takes, never let go of your song of joy, for that is our strength and victory!<\/b>*<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larmani (not her real name) is one believer with an infectious joy and energy. *Her patent phrase is, &#8220;God is good, all the time&#8221;*. It&#8217;s rare not find her with a psalm and song of praise. *All this changed in Larmani&#8217;s life when she encountered a series of storms*. First it was an engagement broken, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":59490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}