{"id":608,"date":"2020-11-19T00:26:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2020-11-16T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T00:31:16","slug":"united-in-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/united-in-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"United in Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday, November 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>United in Praise <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rejoice always. <strong>1 Thessalonians 5:16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the book of Acts the Holy Spirit came down and empowered Gods people as they were on one according praising God. They began to praise God and as He filled them with the Holy Spirit that led to such a powerful move, allowing them to take bold and courageous steps in the name of Jesus. We too can access this move of God through the Holy Spirit when we praise.<\/p>\n<p>We are living in moment and making history. Yet despite all that is going on the work of God has not stopped. God\u2019s kingdom is growing and moving in ways never before thought imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Praise gets our focus off ourselves and back on God.\u00a0 In our often \u201cselfie\u201d focused world, we need this constant reminder &#8211; life is not all about us.\u00a0 So while the world continues to watch us, I echo the words of Bonnie Raitt \u2018Let\u2019s give them something to talk about\u2019, lets show them God\u2019s love. God desires our eyes be set firmly on Him, because that&#8217;s where our true hope is found.\u00a0 He is worthy of our praise, no matter what we face from day to day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 19 United in Praise Rejoice always. 1 Thessalonians 5:16 In the book of Acts the Holy Spirit came down and empowered Gods people as they were on one according praising God. They began to praise God and as He filled them with the Holy Spirit that led to such a powerful move, allowing [&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-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}