{"id":2156,"date":"2025-12-30T01:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:19:54","slug":"yearend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/yearend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Days: Year-End Matching Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2156\" class=\"elementor elementor-2156\" 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>As we find ourselves in the closing days of 2025, EA\u2019s 13th year of ministry, and the final hours of our matching campaign, I am reminded of the following encouragement from King David<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in Psalm 27:14, urging us to<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> seek the Lord and take courage in Him. \u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u00a0<em>Wait on the LORD;<br \/><\/em><em>Be of good courage,<br \/><\/em><em>And He shall strengthen your heart;<br \/><\/em><em>Wait, I say, on the LORD!<\/em><\/p><p>The Prince of Preachers, Charles Spurgeon, offered the following exhortation from this passage:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWait at his door with prayer; wait at his foot with humility; wait at his table with service; wait at his window with expectancy.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span>Let this be our posture, both individually and collectively as the EA Family, as we reflect on 2025 and contemplate what the Lord has in store for us in 2026.<\/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>As we find ourselves in the closing days of 2025, EA\u2019s 13th year of ministry, and the final hours of our matching campaign, I am reminded of the following encouragement from King David in Psalm 27:14, urging us to seek the Lord and take courage in Him. \u00a0 \u00a0Wait on the LORD;Be of good courage,And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026-600x300.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\/2156","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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}