{"id":5000,"date":"2026-08-16T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:10:12","slug":"a-sure-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/a-sure-place\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sure Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is only one sure place to find hope and help&#8230;the Lord God&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them. But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the Lord their God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Psalm 145:3-5 NLT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/bible.com\/bible\/116\/psa.146.3-5.NLT\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sorasak-8ZAxI5FwjFo-unsplash-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sorasak-8ZAxI5FwjFo-unsplash-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sorasak-8ZAxI5FwjFo-unsplash-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sorasak-8ZAxI5FwjFo-unsplash-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sorasak-8ZAxI5FwjFo-unsplash-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sorasak-8ZAxI5FwjFo-unsplash-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is only one sure place to find hope and help&#8230;the Lord God&#8230; Don\u2019t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them. But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sorasak-8ZAxI5FwjFo-unsplash-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clcbranson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}