{"id":3526,"date":"2014-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/for-the-despondent-every-day-brings-trouble-for-the-happy-heart-life-is-a-continual-feast-proverbs-1515-nlt\/"},"modified":"2014-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T00:00:00","slug":"for-the-despondent-every-day-brings-trouble-for-the-happy-heart-life-is-a-continual-feast-proverbs-1515-nlt","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/for-the-despondent-every-day-brings-trouble-for-the-happy-heart-life-is-a-continual-feast-proverbs-1515-nlt","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For the despondent, every day brings trouble; for the happy heart, life is a continual feast&#8221; (Proverbs 15:15 NLT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our heart condition determines how we perceive life. Yet, how do we have a &#8220;happy heart?&#8221; David knew something about this. When life circumstances turned from bad to worse around him, the Bible says that he &#8220;encouraged himself in the Lord&#8221; (1 Sam. 30:6 KJV). His circumstances didn&#8217;t immediately change, but his heart did. And when our heart changes, we see possibilities rather than limitations. Is your life full of trouble or like a continual feast? Perhaps it&#8217;s more a matter of your heart than your circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our heart condition determines how we perceive life. Yet, how do we have a &#8220;happy heart?&#8221; David knew something about this. When life circumstances turned from bad to worse around him, the Bible says that he &#8220;encouraged himself in the Lord&#8221; (1 Sam. 30:6 KJV). His circumstances didn&#8217;t immediately change, but his heart did. And when our heart changes, we see possibilities rather than limitations. Is your life full of trouble or like a continual feast? Perhaps it&#8217;s more a matter of your heart than your circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1287],"scripture-chapter":[1348],"oyb_day":[1664],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3526","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-proverbs","scripture-chapter-1348","oyb_day-may-17"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}