{"id":63834,"date":"2023-08-07T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=63834"},"modified":"2023-08-07T03:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:12:48","slug":"four-ways-biblical-counseling-can-make-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=63834","title":{"rendered":"Four Ways Biblical Counseling Can Make You Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve learned an intriguing truth. God empowers biblical counseling not only to make us holy but to make us happy. Have you thought about this already? I&rsquo;m typically slow on the uptake, but this happy truth has been coming home to me over recent years. Along with you, I&rsquo;ve known well the power and purpose of biblical counseling to conform us (the counselor and the counselee, of which I&rsquo;m both) to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2023\/08\/07\/four-ways-biblical-counseling-can-make-you-happy\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a key way biblical counseling makes us, as counselors, happy. Our hearts are cheered by the cheering of other hearts. In this way, happiness is contagious among Christians. As our brothers and sisters are made happy in God\u2014especially through our godly counsel\u2014our own hearts fill with joy. As we see other people made happier in Jesus and His grace, we are made happier in Jesus too. Do you see that in your own life? I hope you do; I\u2019m starting to see it in mine, and I\u2019m very happy for it. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":63836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[145,4046,660,708,2185,142],"class_list":["post-63834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-happiness","tag-joy","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-people-who-train-caregivers","tag-uncategorized","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-3.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63837,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63834\/revisions\/63837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}