{"id":1813,"date":"2021-11-24T01:56:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T01:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2021-11-24T01:56:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T01:56:23","slug":"thanksliving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/thanksliving\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanks-living?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1813\" class=\"elementor elementor-1813\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2cdd4e87 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2cdd4e87\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c8672f7\" data-id=\"6c8672f7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46c2b7dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"46c2b7dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Long before Thanksgiving Day was pronounced an official holiday in the United States in 1941, Charles Spurgeon spoke of thanksgiving hundreds of times in his writings and sermons. For Spurgeon, more than an annual event, thanksgiving was to be a way of life.<\/p><p>In a sermon delivered in 1915 in London\u2019s Metropolitan Tabernacle, the Prince of Preachers encouraged thanks-living with these words:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Then, Brothers and Sisters, we ought to always be thanks-living. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How is this to be done?<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant, delighting ourselves in the Lord and submission of our desires to His mind.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Oh, I wish that our whole life might be a Psalm\u2014that every day might be a stanza of a mighty poem!<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That so from the day of our spiritual birth until we enter Heaven we might be pouring forth sacred sonnet in every thought, word and action of our lives.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Let us give Him thankfulness and thanks-living.<\/p><p>We at Empowering Action are particularly grateful for \u201cJesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith\u201d (Hebrews 12:2) and your partnership in ministry for His glory (Philippians 1:5).<\/p><p>Happy Thanks-living!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before Thanksgiving Day was pronounced an official holiday in the United States in 1941, Charles Spurgeon spoke of thanksgiving hundreds of times in his writings and sermons. For Spurgeon, more than an annual event, thanksgiving was to be a way of life. In a sermon delivered in 1915 in London\u2019s Metropolitan Tabernacle, the Prince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heroes-of-the-faith","category-theology"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mailchimp-Thanksgiving-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mailchimp-Thanksgiving-600x300.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}