{"id":13452,"date":"2026-10-04T18:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=13452"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:24:08","slug":"outages-wednesday-october-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/outages-wednesday-october-7-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Outages &#8211; Wednesday, October 7, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>2 Timothy 1:7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kelly softly elbowed her co-worker, whose nodding off had escalated into snoring.\u00a0 It made those seated in the conference room look up from the newspapers and crossword puzzles that had provided a much-needed distraction from the yearly, mandatory video presentation on corporate outages. Kelly, too, sought an escape as she retrieved her phone and opened the notes from Sunday\u2019s sermon\u2014a message focused on handling life&#8217;s disruptions through God\u2019s continuous power. The last sentence included the title, \u201cHandling Outages,\u201d prompting her to smile, as it suited this exact moment perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Disruptions happen when operations or resources are suddenly cut off\u2014like when your car stalls while driving, or a bill arrives with a due date you cannot afford. These life &#8220;outages&#8221; can leave people feeling powerless and anxious, often tempting them to make unsound decisions. But that doesn&#8217;t have to be our reality as Christians. Scripture assures us of a divine power source: a God who never experiences an outage. Isaiah 40:29 promises this exact strength: \u201cHe giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When an untimely disruption occurs, it\u2019s easy to feel unrest. That makes it imperative to remain calm, pause, and take a deep breath. The outage may have shaken us, but let\u2019s make certain it doesn\u2019t impact our promise of a sound mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind \u2013 2 Timothy 1:7 Kelly softly elbowed her co-worker, whose nodding off had escalated into snoring.\u00a0 It made those seated in the conference room look up from the newspapers and crossword puzzles that had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/outages-wednesday-october-7-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Outages &#8211; Wednesday, October 7, 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-13452","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13452","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=13452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13460,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13452\/revisions\/13460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}