{"id":6465,"date":"2019-11-28T19:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T02:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=6465"},"modified":"2019-11-28T19:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T02:22:58","slug":"thankgodforeverthing","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/thankgodforeverthing\/","title":{"rendered":"THANK GOD\u2014EVERY DAY FOR EVERYTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6467 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/max-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/max-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/max-2-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/max-2-450x152.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A person never runs out of reasons to say \u201cthanks!\u201d \u00a0Just the word lifts the spirit!<\/p>\n<p>To say, \u201cthanks\u201d is to celebrate a gift. \u00a0Something. \u00a0Anything.<\/p>\n<p>In Scripture the idea of giving thanks is not a suggestion or a recommendation; it\u2019s a command. \u00a0It carries the same weight as \u201clove your neighbor\u201d and \u201cgive to the poor.\u201d\u00a0 More than a hundred times, either by imperative or example, the Bible commands us to be thankful. \u00a0If quantity implies gravity, God takes thanksgiving seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Ingratitude is the original sin.\u00a0 Adam and Eve had a million reasons to give thanks.\u00a0 They lived in a perfect world. \u00a0Then Satan slithered into the garden and just like that, Eden wasn\u2019t enough. \u00a0Oh, the hissing we hear. \u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t you want more?\u201d \u00a0So thank God.\u00a0 Moment by moment.\u00a0 Day by day. \u00a0Thank him\u2026for everything!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6466 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/max-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/max-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/max-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/max-1-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":6467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-6465","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/6465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/6465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6468,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/6465\/revisions\/6468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}