{"id":362,"date":"2025-08-06T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/poustinia\/?p=362"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:30:00","slug":"sustained-by-the-gift-of-perseverance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/blog\/sustained-by-the-gift-of-perseverance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustained by the Gift of Perseverance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the way may seem unending, the Lord grants the grace to endure. Trust that each moment of steadfast faith is blessed from above and brings you nearer the goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity.\u201d (2 Corinthians 12:9)<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assert, therefore, that the perseverance by which we persevere in Christ even to the end is the gift of God; &#8230; Therefore it is uncertain whether any one has received this gift so long as he is still alive.\u201d (St. Augustine of Hippo)<\/p>\n<p>May today\u2019s encouragement remind you that endurance itself is a divine gift, and you are upheld even when the path seems hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the way may seem unending, the Lord grants the grace to endure. Trust that each moment of steadfast faith is blessed from above and brings you nearer the goal. \u201cMy grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity.\u201d (2 Corinthians 12:9)<\/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-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frcharles.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}