{"id":3394,"date":"2018-10-09T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2018-10-09T06:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:46:00","slug":"bless-the-lord-at-all-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/?p=3394","title":{"rendered":"BLESS THE LORD AT ALL TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 32px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cBLESS THE LORD AT ALL TIMES\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Have you ever wondered why bad things sometimes happen to good people, even Christians?\u00a0 The answer is very simple, mankind has an enemy whose name is Satan.\u00a0 He\u2019s also known as the devil, the deceiver and he comes to steal, kill, (murder) and to destroy <strong>(Jn. 8:44; 10:10; Rev. 20:1 \u2013 3)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Satan means adversary, he\u2019s the one who is behind all adversity and yet many people don\u2019t know who the real enemy is <strong>(I Pet. 5:8)<\/strong>.\u00a0 In the midst of turmoil, remember as Christians we are to bless the Lord at <em>All Times<\/em> <strong>(Ps. 34:1)<\/strong>; count it <em>All Joy<\/em>, rejoice in the Lord <em>Always<\/em>, and again rejoice!\u00a0 Finally, in everything (or in every situation) give God thanks because He is good.\u00a0 For He\u2019s worthy <strong>(Phil. 4:4; Jas. 1:2; I Thess. 5:18)<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBLESS THE LORD AT ALL TIMES\u201d Have you ever wondered why bad things sometimes happen to good people, even Christians?\u00a0 The answer is very simple, mankind has an enemy whose name is Satan.\u00a0 He\u2019s also known as the devil, the deceiver and he comes to steal, kill, (murder) and to destroy (Jn. 8:44; 10:10; Rev. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","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\/3394","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=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}