{"id":9255,"date":"2017-04-03T19:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T00:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2017-04-03T19:19:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T00:19:21","slug":"sacrificing-my-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/sacrificing-my-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrificing My Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/sacrificing-my-praise\/sacofpraise\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9262\" src=\"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sacofpraise.jpg\" alt=\"sacofpraise\" width=\"582\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">What if each\u00a0time someone celebrated my skills<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Or expertise,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I <strong>re-gifted<\/strong> the applause to the Father<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Instead\u00a0of desiring an\u00a0encore\u00a0ovation?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">What if each\u00a0time someone praised my wisdom<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Or\u00a0education,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I <strong>returned<\/strong> the accolade to the Lord<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Instead of\u00a0celebrating with a\u00a0personal party?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">What if each\u00a0time my child scored a goal, made the grade,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Or won an award,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I <strong>restored<\/strong> the admiration to His\u00a0Name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Instead of\u00a0attempting to build my own?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">What if I truly regarded\u00a0all\u00a0praise given to me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>As a gift<\/strong> to\u00a0present to God Who created\u00a0everything?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">May my praise be offered, not simply in word and song, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But sacrificed, in deed and truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What if each\u00a0time someone celebrated my skills Or expertise, I re-gifted the applause to the Father Instead\u00a0of desiring an\u00a0encore\u00a0ovation?\u00a0 &nbsp; What if each\u00a0time someone praised my wisdom Or\u00a0education, I returned the accolade to the Lord Instead of\u00a0celebrating with a\u00a0personal party? &nbsp; What if each\u00a0time my child scored a goal, made the grade, Or won an award, I restored the &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/sacrificing-my-praise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[1027,858,907,1028,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungryformore.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}