{"id":2870,"date":"2023-10-09T01:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T01:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2023-09-30T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T15:44:06","slug":"a-joyful-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/a-joyful-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"A Joyful Offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Monday, October 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Joyful Offering <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song<\/em>. \u00a0<strong>Psalm 95:1-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The act of singing is a beautiful and powerful expression of worship. Throughout the Bible, we find numerous references to singing praises unto the Lord. Psalm 95:1-2 invites us to join in this glorious chorus of worship: &#8220;<em>Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Singing unto the Lord is an invitation to express the joy that dwells in our hearts as believers. Singing is a vehicle for expressing our gratitude. It allows us to recount the blessings, both big and small, that God has poured into our lives. It&#8217;s not a mere duty but a joyful response to God&#8217;s goodness and salvation. When we sing with joy, we declare to the world and to our own hearts that our God is worthy of all praise.<\/p>\n<p>The Lord is our steadfast Rock. When we sing, we acknowledge His unwavering presence in our lives. Our songs become a proclamation of our faith, a reminder that no matter the storms, we are anchored to the Rock of our salvation.<\/p>\n<p>This week I encourage you to keep singing unto the Lord. As we lift our voices in song, we remember His faithfulness and give thanks from the depths of our hearts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, October 9 A Joyful Offering Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. \u00a0Psalm 95:1-2 The act of singing is a beautiful and powerful expression of worship. Throughout the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}