{"id":3400,"date":"2016-08-22T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T03:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2016-08-22T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T03:10:28","slug":"seemingly-poor-yet-riches-for-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/p\/3400","title":{"rendered":"SEEMINGLY POOR, YET RICHES FOR MANY (Yvonne\u2014My One and Only Beloved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/untitledcfr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/untitledcfr.png\" alt=\"untitledcfr\" width=\"292\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/002-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/002-2-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"002 (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/002-2-300x129.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/002-2-768x330.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/002-2-1024x440.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/002-2.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Paul Lai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated\u00a0\u00a0 by Sunny Tso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>God gave me the task of planting and responsibility of pastoring the Ottawa church for fourteen years.\u00a0 Being a Pastor is not as simple as most people may think.\u00a0 The difficulties and the sense of isolation in our hearts are beyond most people\u2019s understanding.\u00a0 We have experienced all types of trials over the years including heavy workload, shortage of basic essentials, and psychological harms caused by others.\u00a0 However, when we see the many lives changed because of knowing Jesus, from being unbelievers to coming to acceptance, being brought from darkness to light, going from sadness to joy, from worrying to gladness, and from bondage to freedom, all the hardship became insignificant and in fact well worth the sacrifice.\u00a0 The Apostle Paul said:\u00a0 \u201cTherefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.\u201d\u00a0 1 Corinthians 4:1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The road of a Pastor may be full of trials, but through these storms our lives will produce the glory and value God wants in us so He can use us more for His work.\u00a0 Whenever I am weak, He makes me strong; whenever I suffer He comforts me.\u00a0 His glorious light fills my heart.\u00a0 Many people say we have received the greatest blessing through our vocation, and thank God, we have no regret as He chose us first.\u00a0 There are others who commented that \u201chis sermons are as natural as breathing, there is no great wisdom or elegant words, but the message comes from the heart making it practical just like life itself.\u201d\u00a0 I truly believe all the sufferings are meant to produce great blessings from God.\u00a0 (Because through suffering, we will experience God\u2019s comfort, healing, presence, and hence we can share with others who are experiencing the same.)\u00a0 The Lord will use our suffering to bless others.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Lai Translated\u00a0\u00a0 by Sunny Tso \u00a0 God gave me the task of planting and responsibility of pastoring the Ottawa church for fourteen years.\u00a0 Being a Pastor is not as simple as most people may think.\u00a0 The difficulties and the sense of isolation in our hearts are beyond most people\u2019s understanding.\u00a0 We have experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}