{"id":1723,"date":"2023-09-08T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2023-09-08T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:38:29","slug":"how-do-you-manage-your-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/how-do-you-manage-your-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you manage your hopes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Discussion question for September 15, 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 13:12 says that hope deferred makes the heart sick while James 5:7-11 says to wait patiently.\u00a0 What have you hoped for that is making your heart ache?\u00a0 How do you know what to keep hoping for or when to let a desire go?\u00a0 How does Psalm 37:7 help you understand when to wait patiently?\u00a0 What encouragement do you take from Lamentations 3:25-26?\u00a0 How does the level of your desire change over time?\u00a0 What do you think about the faithful saints who hoped without ever seeing the result (Hebrews 11:13 and 39)?\u00a0 How would you encourage a person younger in the faith to hold on to hope?\u00a0 What dream or hope are you still reminding God about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion question for September 15, 2023. Proverbs 13:12 says that hope deferred makes the heart sick while James 5:7-11 says to wait patiently.\u00a0 What have you hoped for that is making your heart ache?\u00a0 How do you know what to keep hoping for or when to let a desire go?\u00a0 How does Psalm 37:7 help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-for-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}