{"id":181,"date":"2016-04-18T03:12:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2016-04-16T06:17:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T13:17:12","slug":"giving-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/18\/giving-from-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving from the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giving comes from the heart. \u00a0If we give out of compassion or thankfulness our heart is pure. \u00a0God gives us opportunity to love others through giving and serving. \u00a0Being blessed by God allows us to share that blessing. \u00a0If we are not willing to give from what we have already been given then our heart is not in line with God&#8217;s intended purpose for our life. \u00a0Choose a life of giving.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 10:42<br \/>\nAnd whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 14:31<br \/>\nWhoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker,<br \/>\nbut he who is generous to the needy honors him<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 19:17<br \/>\nWhoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord,<br \/>\nand he will repay him for his deed<\/p>\n<p>Hebrews 6:10<br \/>\nFor God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving comes from the heart. \u00a0If we give out of compassion or thankfulness our heart is pure. \u00a0God gives us opportunity to love others through giving and serving. \u00a0Being blessed by God allows us to share that blessing. \u00a0If we are not willing to give from what we have already been given then our heart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/18\/giving-from-the-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giving from the Heart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[207,2,115,206,205,137,108,208],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-assurance","tag-faith","tag-generous","tag-inherit","tag-patience","tag-poor","tag-reward","tag-saints"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}