{"id":941,"date":"2021-10-09T01:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2021-10-09T01:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:54:45","slug":"never-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Never Offered&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEach of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give,\u00a0not reluctantly or under compulsion,\u00a0for God loves a cheerful giver.\u201d 2 Corinthians 9:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend, Louise and I spent a few days in Paso Robles for our six-year wedding anniversary. While there, we did a little wine tasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each wine tasting room has a host or hostess that makes the process of tasting and buying wine easier. They are very knowledgeable about the different varieties, grape types, boldness, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louise and I asked one wine hostess, Kara, about a certain wine. She said, \u201cI\u2019d like to taste that one myself, but it is never offered at tastings.\u201d We decided to buy two bottles, asked her to open one and to bring back three glasses. After the three of us had a small taste we told her the rest of the bottle was hers to keep. She was overwhelmed. \u201cThank you so much. No one has ever done that for me before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was one of those God moments, for Louise and me. We hoped it was also a God moment for Kara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Who have I surprised recently with cheerful giving? Who has surprised me recently with cheerful giving?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cEach of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give,\u00a0not reluctantly or under compulsion,\u00a0for God loves a cheerful giver.\u201d 2 Corinthians 9:7 Applying God\u2019s Word Last weekend, Louise and I spent a few &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=941\">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":[43,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-corinthians","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}