{"id":3370,"date":"2018-07-30T14:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T19:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2018-07-30T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T19:56:01","slug":"giving-and-receiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"GIVING AND RECEIVING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 32px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cGIVING AND RECEIVING\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>The Apostle Paul states in the latter part of <strong>Acts 20:35<\/strong> that Jesus said, <strong>\u201cIt is more blessed to give than it is to receive\u201d! Why could Jesus say that it\u2019s more blessed to give than receive?<\/strong> Because when you sow your seed, not only do you reap the fruit of that seed, you also receive multiple seeds within the fruit. God wants us to be fruitful and to multiply in every area of our life <strong>(Gen. 1:26 \u2013 28; II Cor. 9:6 \u2013 9; Col. 1:9, 10)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You need finances? Give! You need forgiveness? Forgive! You need love? Then Love others as yourself! Whatever you need, it is in your power to create; however, you must sow the seed for that need. When God wanted more children, He gave his Only begotten Son, Jesus and reaped more children. Words are like seeds, so speak the blessings into your life and not the curses <strong>(Pro. 12:14; 18:21; Gal. 6:7 \u2013 9)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGIVING AND RECEIVING\u201d The Apostle Paul states in the latter part of Acts 20:35 that Jesus said, \u201cIt is more blessed to give than it is to receive\u201d! Why could Jesus say that it\u2019s more blessed to give than receive? Because when you sow your seed, not only do you reap the fruit of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastors_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}