{"id":28838,"date":"2015-11-27T00:25:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T05:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=28838"},"modified":"2015-11-27T00:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T05:23:58","slug":"this-week-philippians-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/27\/this-week-philippians-46\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week…Philippians 4:6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do not be anxious or<\/i> worried about anything,<\/span>
\nbut in everything [every circumstance and situation]<\/span>
\nby prayer and petition with thanksgiving,<\/span>
\ncontinue to make your [specific] requests known to God.<\/span>
\nPhilippians 4:6\u00a0<\/span>AMP\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

* \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271e \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n

Here on the Seeking Him<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>devotional blog, we have been focusing our thoughts for the past few weeks on giving thanks, gratitude, and being thankful. \u00a0This week our devotional writers have encouraged us to remember that it is possible to bring all our cares and concerns…and worries and anxieties…to God through prayers of thankfulness. \u00a0Please click on the indivdual links to read each complete devotional; here are a few excerpts from their thoughts\u2026.<\/p>\n

In Worry versus Thankfulness<\/em><\/a>, Clella<\/span><\/strong> gave us truth and promises to hold onto…<\/p>\n

These Scriptures in Philippians and 1 Timothy tell us to pray about every<\/em>thing-<\/strong>\u2013every circumstance, every situation, every person in our life. \u00a0We are to tell God about everything we need (and even the things we perceive we need.) \u00a0Why? Because He cares about you (each of us.)<\/p>\n

Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.
\n1 Peter 5:7<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In Trust and Thank God<\/em><\/a>, Tina<\/span><\/strong> asked a really good question…<\/p>\n

What are we saying to God when we choose to worry and fret over a situation? Are we saying we do not trust Him to care? Are we saying this situation is too small for You to handle, I do not want to bother you with it? Yes, my friend we are. Just as you would go to a friend, or mentor, or mom, and tell them what is going one, God wants us to go to Him and cast our problems and lay them down at His feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In Anxiety<\/a><\/em>, Ann<\/span><\/strong> enumerated five different ways in which prayer is ‘the essential cure for worry’, and reminded us that…<\/p>\n

“Therefore, I urge each one of us not to murmur and worry when we face the \u00a0adversaries of this life. \u00a0Take it to God in prayer. \u00a0He is the Author and Finisher of our faith. \u00a0And there is nothing hard for him. \u00a0All things are possible…”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In Thankful for the Blessing<\/a><\/em>, Ahmee warned us of the easy path it is to treat the Scriptures with a ‘mundane’ or familiar attitude…<\/p>\n

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“So, we are to tell God what we need (or want) and then we are to thank Him for what He has already done<\/strong><\/em>. I feel that we are told to do this, because it is to help us remember that God is faithful and has shown us that He is faithful, but to also keep us grateful for all the Lord has helped us with and provided for us, AND it\u2019s to help us keep a thankful heart…”.<\/p>\n

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Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God. Philippians 4:6\u00a0AMP\u00a0 * \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271e \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0* Here on the Seeking Him devotional blog, we have been focusing our thoughts for […]<\/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":[3367,9721,9720,2233,3174,9630,7879],"class_list":["post-28838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-no-anxiety","tag-no-worries","tag-philippians-46","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-thanksgiving-devotionals","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-7v8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838","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=28838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28840,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838\/revisions\/28840"}],"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=28838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}