{"id":11728,"date":"2024-08-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2016-07-22T21:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T18:43:59","slug":"grateful-people-people-able-self-sacrifice-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/grateful-people-people-able-self-sacrifice-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful people \u2013 they are people able for self-sacrifice! II"},"content":{"rendered":"I am glad to greet you again in our column \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Strength\u201d!\r\n\r\nWe are continuing speaking about the fact that every person who loves God\u00a0is a person able for self-sacrifice.\r\n\r\nYesterday we were speaking about Abraham, who loved God not only in his words but also in his works. As a sign of his gratitude, Abraham built altars and offered sacrifices for God.\r\n\r\nLet us look at another time when Abraham built and altar for the Lord:\r\n<h6>\u201cThe LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, &#8220;Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.&#8221; So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where\u00a0<u>he built an altar to the LORD<\/u>.\u201d(Genesis 13:14-18).<\/h6>\r\nWe see that building an altar was the correct response of Abraham towards God\u2019s grace.\r\n\r\nIf we learn to appreciate and cherish everything that God does in our lives, then it will be natural for us to sacrifice or build and altar for God.\r\n\r\nKnow that when speaking about sacrifice,\u00a0<em>God will never ever ask you for something that you do not have!\u00a0<\/em>His love does not require that, God\u2019s love is not abusive. If you truly love someone, you will never ask from them what they do not have.\r\n\r\nForget about what you do not have, think about what you do have. Be sure that you own a lot!\r\n\r\nAs a church we can be more useful and influential than we are today. We can do more, give more; we can have more. People must rise, people-worshippers who will love God and who will not hold back their abilities, wisdom, experience, time and finances in order to build the Kingdom of God. Worshippers are easy to be directed. Worship is not just singing songs. Worship costs something! And they who pay this price, are the true worshippers of God.\r\n\r\nDo not deceive yourself; if you seriously want to follow God, then build your altar and bring all of your favourite sine upon it:\u00a0pride, selfishness, ambitions, lust of flesh, and lust of eyes. Bring upon it your time, your gifts, abilities, knowledge, talents, experience, etc. Thus you can become a powerful instrument in the hands of God to expand His Kingdom and spread His perfect aroma. Understand that if you are able to sacrifice to God, then reward from Him will be much larger that that what you can give to Him.\r\n\r\nDo you love the Lord more than anything in your life? Begin to prove it with your way of life and self-sacrifice!\r\n\r\nMay God bless you!\r\n\r\nPastor\u00a0Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If we learn to appreciate and cherish everything that God does in our lives, then it will be natural for us to sacrifice or build and altar for God.\r\n\r\nKnow that when speaking about sacrifice, God will never ever ask you for something that you do not have! His love does not require that, God\u2019s love is not abusive. If you truly love someone, you will never ask from them what they do not have.\r\n\r\nForget about what you do not have, think about what you do have. Be sure that you own a lot!","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/depositphotos_56246247-stock-photo-two-boys-on-a-railway-e1664291074846.webp",600,400,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38696,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728\/revisions\/38696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}