{"id":2022,"date":"2023-12-29T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T14:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2023-12-29T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T14:02:57","slug":"finaldays2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/finaldays2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Days of Year-End $100,000 Matching Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2022\" class=\"elementor elementor-2022\" 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 style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">As we head into the final days of 2023 and EA\u2019s 11th year of ministry, I was reflecting this morning on Paul\u2019s words to the church in Philippi regarding God\u2019s provision:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .0001pt .5in;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, but you lacked opportunity. (Phil. 4:10)<\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">Ten years had passed since Paul had established the church in that city. The Philippians had generously supported Paul when he left Philippi to minister in the Macedonian cities of Thessalonica and Berea (Acts 17:1-13) and moved south into Achaia, ministering in Athens and Corinth (Acts 17:14-18:18).<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">Throughout the years, the Philippian church had remained concerned about Paul and his ministry, but the distance had hindered their ability to minister to him. The late theologian John Walvoord explains how the arrival of Epaphroditus with their financial support (Phil. 4:18) immensely encouraged the imprisoned apostle:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .0001pt .5in;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">\u201cThe fact that they had gone to such effort to send him an offering by the hand of one of their beloved brethren in the church at Philippi touched Paul\u2019s heart and gave him great encouragement in the lonely hours of his imprisonment.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0e101a;\">Thank you for being so supportive throughout the years! And please know that any gifts toward our year-end matching campaign will, like the Apostle Paul, greatly encourage your ministry partners pictured below.<\/span><\/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<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-19505fb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"19505fb\" 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-5502022\" data-id=\"5502022\" 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-92ea82c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"92ea82c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-1024x341.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2023\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\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>As we head into the final days of 2023 and EA\u2019s 11th year of ministry, I was reflecting this morning on Paul\u2019s words to the church in Philippi regarding God\u2019s provision: \u00a0 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Year-END-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Year-END-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\/2022","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=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}