{"id":1313,"date":"2018-11-22T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2018-11-22T08:38:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T16:38:39","slug":"devotion-1-chronicles-1634-overloaded-with-reasons-for-thankfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Devotion      1 Chronicles 16:34      Overloaded With Reasons For Thankfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7MsoNoSpacing\"><b>1 Chronicles 16:34\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0<i>\u201cGive thanks\u00a0to the\u00a0Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7text\"><b>Mark 12:29-31<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span><i>\u201cThe most important one,\u201d\u00a0answered Jesus,\u00a0\u201cis this: \u2018Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.\u00a030\u00a0Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.\u2019\u00a031\u00a0The second is this: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019There is no commandment greater than these.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7text\">Happy Thanksgiving to all!\u00a0 My forever first reason to be thankful is that God is good and He loves us!\u00a0 I\u2019m so thankful that He loves me so much that every day He makes me better at letting His love flow to others.\u00a0 Receiving love and giving love is the best thing in life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7text\">Family and Friends, I hope you all know how deeply I love you all.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard not to love when being loved so greatly by Him.\u00a0 Making it harder not to love is having all of you in my life.\u00a0 Will Rogers, the great American humorist of the past, is quoted as saying \u201cI never met a man I didn\u2019t like.\u201d\u00a0 As a child I would think about that.\u00a0\u00a0 I could think of people, even as a child, who didn\u2019t seem \u201clike\u201d worthy.\u00a0 I was probably one of them!\u00a0 However, Jesus changed all that.\u00a0 I can now love everyone.\u00a0 Not everything we all do is so loveable, but we cannot concentrate on the negative but the positive, and people can become very likeable, even lovable.\u00a0 It is especially possible to do knowing that we are commanded to love.\u00a0 Family and Friends, we are all very loveable in some ways, and in some ways not so loveable.\u00a0 Let us love everybody for their good qualities in spite of their bad!\u00a0 Jesus does.\u00a0 Let\u2019s follow His example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7text\">I\u2019m thankful to and for God!\u00a0 And I\u2019m thankful for all of you!\u00a0 Even you rascals, of whom I am one!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv6894056023ydp8f2e93e7text\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Chronicles 16:34\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201cGive thanks\u00a0to the\u00a0Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.\u201d Mark 12:29-31\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201cThe most important one,\u201d\u00a0answered Jesus,\u00a0\u201cis this: \u2018Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.\u00a030\u00a0Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.\u2019\u00a031\u00a0The second&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[2453,93,94,17],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-chronicles","tag-mark","tag-micah","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}