{"id":13082,"date":"2026-07-05T20:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=13082"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:10:47","slug":"hands-of-grace-sunday-july-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/hands-of-grace-sunday-july-12-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands Of Grace &#8211; Sunday, July 12, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Lamentations 3:23<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His hands are over me,<br \/>\nYes, I can feel them.<br \/>\nHis grace is covering me,<br \/>\nYes, I can see it.<br \/>\nNo matter all the bad\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0done,<br \/>\nGod\u2019s love remembers\u00a0not a single one,<br \/>\nHis hands of grace are always with me.<\/p>\n<p>Although the opening verses were composed a day earlier, they nevertheless support a devotional message about the reasons we Christians should feel blessed. \u00a0It mentioned having the security of food and shelter and the health to be physically mobile, even if these areas may not be as abundant as desired. \u00a0Which for me includes God\u2019s promise of forgetfulness in both the Old and New Testaments: &#8220;I, even I, am he that blotted out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins&#8221; (Isaiah 43:25) and \u201cAnd their sins and iniquities will I remember no more\u201d (Hebrews 10:17).<\/p>\n<p>On this Sunday, I hope you will likewise meditate on the author\u2019s testimony in Lamentations 3:22 &#8211; \u201cIt is of the Lord&#8217;s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.\u201d \u00a0Doing so, you\u2019ll be reminded of God\u2019s Hands of Grace over your life, His protection, His supply, and His mercy, and how they are indeed \u201cnew every morning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness \u2013 Lamentations 3:23 His hands are over me, Yes, I can feel them. His grace is covering me, Yes, I can see it. No matter all the bad\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0done, God\u2019s love remembers\u00a0not a single one, His hands of grace are always with me. Although the opening verses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/hands-of-grace-sunday-july-12-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hands Of Grace &#8211; Sunday, July 12, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13082","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13084,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13082\/revisions\/13084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}