{"id":14921,"date":"2013-09-27T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=14921"},"modified":"2013-09-26T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T02:41:23","slug":"ashamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/27\/ashamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Be Ashamed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Let the people praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You.
\nThen the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us.
\nGod shall bless us, And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
\nPsalms 67:5-7<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Praise God\u2014no matter what.\u00a0 Praise God in times of happiness, sadness, and strife.\u00a0 We should praise God all the time\u2014no matter what is going on in our lives.\u00a0 Praising God in our daily lives and routines lets God know we are His.\u00a0 It also lets those around us know that we have chosen God over the desires and temptations of the world.<\/p>\n

We are living in troubling times.\u00a0 God has been taken out of almost everything we would like to do or where we go.\u00a0 There are many people who feel that God needs to stay in the home and the Church and are pushing for laws to prohibit God in public places.\u00a0 But God did not create us to hide behind closed doors to worship Him.\u00a0 We were created for open worship of God.\u00a0\u00a0 When we praise God through our work and our actions…people see it.\u00a0 We can influence those around us by being the light that God has made us to be.\u00a0 By doing this, the earth increases her yield to God.<\/p>\n

God blesses those who follow Him and do what He commands.\u00a0 If we spread His Word and show others what He has done for us, God will bless us in ways that we can never imagine later on\u2014earthly AND heavenly. The ends of the earth shall know God and come to fear Him if we spread His Word and increase the earth\u2019s yield.<\/p>\n

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation
\nto everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
\nRomans 1:16<\/p>\n

We must not be ashamed to praise God.\u00a0 Praising God is one way of spreading His Word.\u00a0 The disciples praised God during their time with Jesus.\u00a0 Then, as Jesus had commanded, they spread Jesus\u2019 message about salvation. \u00a0Their work has continued through thousands of years because those who chose to follow Jesus picked up where the disciples left off when their time on earth was over.\u00a0 They were not ashamed; and so we should not be either.\u00a0\u00a0 We should spread God\u2019s word through praise and other actions that glorify God.<\/p>\n

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Dear heavenly Father, thank You for Your blessings.\u00a0 We praise Your name in all we do.\u00a0 We pray that our praise and our actions will lead others to choose the gift of salvation that You have so freely and lovingly given.\u00a0 In Jesus name.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let the people praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You. Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us, And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him. Psalms 67:5-7 Praise God\u2014no matter what.\u00a0 Praise God in times of happiness, sadness, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3888,3173,425,3211,3214,3805,3887,3886,3174],"class_list":["post-14921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-always-praise-god","tag-daily-devotional","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-laura-pattillo","tag-praise-god","tag-psalm-67","tag-psalms-675-7","tag-romans-116","tag-seeking-him-devotional","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-ashamed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14923,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions\/14923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}