{"id":5679,"date":"2026-07-04T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2026-07-04T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:14:06","slug":"doubt-and-discouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/doubt-and-discouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubt and Discouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5680\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-4.png 640w, https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-4-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Doubt leads to&nbsp;<em>discouragement.<\/em>&nbsp;Discouragement comes from missed expectations. Chronic discouragement leads to lower expectations, decreased effort, weakened desire, and greater difficulty feeling and following the Spirit (see&nbsp;<em>Preach My Gospel<\/em>&nbsp;[2004], 10). Discouragement and despair are the very antithesis of faith. &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Kevin W. Pearson, \u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2009\/04\/faith-in-the-lord-jesus-christ?lang=eng\"><em>Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ<\/em><\/a><em>,\u201d Ensign (CR) May 2009<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubt leads to&nbsp;discouragement.&nbsp;Discouragement comes from missed expectations. Chronic discouragement leads to lower expectations, decreased effort, weakened desire, and greater difficulty feeling and following the Spirit (see&nbsp;Preach My Gospel&nbsp;[2004], 10). Discouragement and despair are the very antithesis of faith. &#8211;&nbsp;Kevin W. Pearson, \u201cFaith in the Lord Jesus Christ,\u201d Ensign (CR) May 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[442,181,130,292,43],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-desire","tag-discouragement","tag-doubt","tag-effort","tag-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5681,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}