{"id":46,"date":"2017-11-01T03:25:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/?p=46"},"modified":"2018-01-30T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:56:15","slug":"pastors-blog-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"GIVE THANKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 32px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cGIVE THANKS\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0When someone does something good or kind for you, it is just common courtesy to say, \u201cThank you\u201d! \u00a0One of the things that the Apostle Paul says will happen in the last days, is that people will become unthankful <\/span><b>(II Tim. 3:1, 2)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0If someone gave you a transmitted disease, would you say thank you? \u00a0I don\u2019t think so!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The bible says, <\/span><b>\u201cEvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning\u201d (Jas. 1:17)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0So let us give the Lord thanks, because He is good <\/span><b>(Ps. 107:1)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and He does not change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jesus was a man who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil <\/span><b>(Acts 10:38<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). \u00a0Sickness is not a gift from God because it is not good or perfect. Healing is a good gift, so let us always remember to thank Him. \u00a0Remember the ten lepers, only one returned to give thanks for God\u2019s goodness <\/span><b>(Lk. 10:11 \u2013 19)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0As we celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday, let us remember to thank the Lord Jesus everyday no matter what situation we may be facing, because He\u2019s worthy <\/span><b>(Ps. 34:18, 19; Eph. 5:20; I Thess. 5:18).<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGIVE THANKS\u201d \u00a0When someone does something good or kind for you, it is just common courtesy to say, \u201cThank you\u201d! \u00a0One of the things that the Apostle Paul says will happen in the last days, is that people will become unthankful (II Tim. 3:1, 2). \u00a0If someone gave you a transmitted disease, would you say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","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\/46","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":315,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agfcinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}