{"id":1238,"date":"2008-11-28T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:50","slug":"giving-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In almost everyone of Paul&#8217;s epistles he finds some way to give\u00a0God\u00a0 thanks for them. One I found a blessing was todays meditation.ll Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you&#8230; One thing Paul thanks God for is their growing faith. I certainly thank the Lord for the hunger for The Word of God, I see in the churches and on the web site. The second thing was for their giving. This is an area I constantly stand amazed and that is the generous giving of God&#8217;s people. It makes me want to shout &#8220;<em>THANKS UNTO OUR GOD&#8221;.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In almost everyone of Paul&#8217;s epistles he finds some way to give\u00a0God\u00a0 thanks for them. One I found a blessing was todays meditation.ll Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to thank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}