{"id":6900,"date":"2019-05-20T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2019-05-20T14:49:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T21:49:57","slug":"thanksgiving-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/thanksgiving-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"THANKSGIVING IN MAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:16-18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cRejoice always,<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>pray without ceasing,<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being thankful is not (or it should not be) a once a year thing. As members of God\u2019s family we are to be thankful at all times.\u00a0\u00a0It is not our prerogative to choose what we will be thankful for &#8212; we are to have an attitude that is, by our spiritual heritage, thankful for all things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In today\u2019s Scripture, Paul admonishes the church at Thessalonica (as well as all of us) that we are to:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Be joyful always.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Do you frequently look as though you have been baptized in vinegar? That, my dear friend, is not being continually joyful. Start each day by looking into God\u2019s spiritual mirror to see the joy of the Lord.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul\u2019s second admonition is that we are to:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cPray continually.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Here is another embarrassing question: How is your prayer life? Are you continually speaking to the Lord in prayer? It is a discipline that we need to pursue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last admonition is in line with today\u2019s topic. Here is what the Lord expects of us:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201cGive thanks in all circumstances.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Chew on that while you are scraping the bottom of the food bin to find a scrap to stave off the pangs of hunger. If you have little or nothing to eat do you still give thanks? That is exactly the Lord\u2019s will in any and every circumstance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blessings dear hearts!\u00a0Walk with God today and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 \u201cRejoice always,\u00a0pray without ceasing,\u00a0in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.\u201d Being thankful is not (or it should not be) a once a year thing. As members of God\u2019s family we are to be thankful at all times.\u00a0\u00a0It is not our prerogative to choose [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-thessalonians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","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=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}