{"id":28607,"date":"2015-11-13T00:20:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T05:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=28607"},"modified":"2015-11-12T09:26:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:26:41","slug":"this-week-colossians-315-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/13\/this-week-colossians-315-17\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week…Colossians 3:15-17"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0<\/sup>And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts.
\nFor as members of one body you are called to live in peace.
\nAnd always be thankful.
\n<\/span>Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives.
\nTeach and counsel each other with all the wisdom He gives.
\nSing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.
\n<\/span>And whatever you do or say,
\ndo it as a representative of the Lord Jesus,
\ngiving thanks through Him to God the Father.
\n<\/span>Colossians 3:15-17<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here on the Seeking Him<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>devotional blog, we are focusing our thoughts for the next few weeks on giving thanks, gratitude, and being thankful. \u00a0This week our devotional writers have been so encouraging in their reminders to always give thanks to God through our Lord Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0Please click on the indivdual links to read each complete devotional; here are a few excerpts from their thoughts\u2026.<\/p>\n

In Good Deeds<\/a><\/em>, Ann<\/span><\/strong> posted a few excellent questions to consider regarding our actions, our deeds. \u00a0And reminded us of the reasons…<\/p>\n

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“Sisters, it is good to do good deeds to everyone around us\u00a0as it gives glory to God…”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In God’s Peace<\/em><\/a>, Tina<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0shared Jesus’ example of peace…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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“I like how Jesus always paced himself. \u00a0Taking the time to pray\u2026being intentional about it. \u00a0Jesus always had a peace about Him…”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In Thankful Representatives<\/a><\/em>, Clella<\/span><\/strong> encouraged us to be thankful and draw others to Christ…<\/p>\n

“When we live in peace, joy, thankfulness, and God\u2019s wisdom, we will be representatives <\/em><\/span>that show the world around us our God of love. With thankful hearts, we can sing, speak, and do that which draws others to Christ…”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In Be Thankful<\/em><\/a>, Ahmee<\/span><\/strong> reminded us of a few of the many things we do<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0have to be thankful for…<\/p>\n

“We can decide to focus on what we do<\/strong> have<\/em> or what we don\u2019t<\/strong> have<\/em>. \u00a0When we choose to focus on what we do<\/strong> have<\/em> we are generally going to find ourselves in a happier disposition than if we focused on the negative…”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful. Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom He gives. Sing psalms, hymns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":22736,"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":[235,9632,3367,1287,425,5589,3174,9618,7879],"class_list":["post-28607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-colossians-315-17","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-giving-thanks","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-thanksgiving-devotions","tag-weekly-recap","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/seekingHimthanksgivinggraphic.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7rp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28609,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions\/28609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}