{"id":2579,"date":"2012-06-07T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2012-06-06T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T18:50:14","slug":"cheerful-but-grumbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/cheerful-but-grumbling\/","title":{"rendered":"CHEERFUL BUT GRUMBLING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Proverbs 15:13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">A few moments ago there was a news report from London that Queen Elizabeth had just spoken to her husband, Prince Phillip, who has been hospitalized with a bladder infection. The Queen reported that her husband was cheerful . . . but grumbling.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It seems I have encountered people like that&#8212;unfortunately many of these grumblers were born again believers. Out of curiosity, I just looked up the Hebrew meaning for the word CHEERFUL; it is the word <em>yatab <\/em>and means: to be good, be pleasing, be well, be glad.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I have a hard time equating cheerful and grumbling in the same context. To me we are either grumblers or grinners (I hope that is a word). Anyway, I think you get the idea. People that are prone to grumble only make themselves more miserable, and it is challenging to be around them without feeling like a weight has been placed across your shoulders.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Those who are consistently cheerful make the world a happier place, and their joy contributes to the healing of their bodies. Their cheerfulness is also a blessing to those who come in contact with them. <strong>I pray that we all will accept the challenge to stop the grumbling and allow the joy of the Lord to shine brightly in our heart and out to others!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>&#8212;Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 15:13 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. A few moments ago there was a news report from London that Queen Elizabeth had just spoken to her husband, Prince Phillip, who has been hospitalized with a bladder infection. The Queen reported that her husband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}