{"id":767,"date":"2019-11-24T03:50:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T03:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2019-11-24T03:50:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T03:50:26","slug":"attitude-of-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAttitude of Gratitude\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJesus asked,\u00a0\u201cWere not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?\u00a0Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?\u201d Luke 17: 17-18<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nam not without trials, aches, pains, bothersome situations or circumstances\nbeyond my control. I know what it means to have been so contaminated with sin\nthat my shame kept me from asking God\u2019s forgiveness. Like the ten lepers, I\nwould stand at a distance begging for mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each\nand every time I\u2019ve come to Jesus, He has cleansed me of my short comings. Too\noften, I have taken for granted His love and mercy. I don\u2019t any longer. I make\nsure I return to give Him praise and thanks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Will\nI be approaching this Thanksgiving and Christmas with an attitude of gratitude?\nWill I stand off at a distance begging for God\u2019s mercy or come close to be\ncleansed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cJesus asked,\u00a0\u201cWere not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?\u00a0Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?\u201d Luke 17: 17-18 Applying God\u2019s Word I am not without trials, aches, pains, bothersome situations &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}