{"id":338694,"date":"2023-07-07T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=338694"},"modified":"2023-11-16T10:26:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:26:47","slug":"dont-drown-in-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/dont-drown-in-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Drown In Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think about someone who is drowning. How does this person react? They silently wave their arms and hope someone comes to help. Of course not! They yell, scream, splash around, they cry out. When someone is drowning, they do anything to be saved. They don&#8217;t drown in silence!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you have been drowning for a long time, and no one has heard your cries. A hand is reaching out right now to pull you out of that depression, those financial problems, that problem in your family, the sickness you are struggling with, the problems of life that have been pulling you down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.\u201d (Psalm 34:6)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps you are this poor man or woman. You have felt hopeless. Let your hope be renewed at this moment. Cry out to God because He hears you. He won\u2019t save you from a few things, but He will completely rescue you. He will bring you to dry land and revive your life. Don\u2019t drown in silence when rescue is so close by.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If you\u2019d like to speak with a pastor for prayer and guidance, visit The Universal Church, which is open seven days a week.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>Click here for locations.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Feel free to call our helpline at<strong> <a href=\"tel:18883324141\">1-888-332-4141<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May the God of the Bible bless you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/birafonseca.com\">Bishop Bira Joshua<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about someone who is drowning. How does this person react? They silently wave their arms and hope someone comes to help. Of course not! They yell, scream, splash around, they cry out. When someone is drowning, they do anything to be saved. They don&#8217;t drown in silence! Maybe you have been drowning for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":339826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[282,42,50,6126,93,94,1545,133,285,6124,174,189,6123,6121],"site":[],"class_list":["post-338694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","tag-addiction","tag-anxiety","tag-betrayal","tag-bible","tag-deliverance","tag-depression","tag-family-problems","tag-holy-spirit","tag-marriage","tag-peace","tag-prayer","tag-salvation","tag-sundays","tag-the-holy-spirit"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338708,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338694\/revisions\/338708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338694"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=338694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}