{"id":1433,"date":"2020-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:42:36","slug":"living-is-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/living-is-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Is Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to be like Jesus, forget about yourself and live for others, for that\u2019s what He did! Listen: \u2018For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.\u2019<\/i> (Mark\u00a010:45\u00a0NIV<\/sup>) Don\u2019t pray for a generous heart; practice being generous and your heart will follow. Become a sower, and God will give you more seed (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a09:10). If He\u2019s not giving you all the seed you want, it could be that you haven\u2019t become a sower yet. <\/p>\n

And always do more than you\u2019re expected to do. Rebecca did that, and she became the bride of Isaac and the inheritor of all Abraham\u2019s blessings (Genesis 24). Have you any idea how much water one thirsty camel can drink? Well, she watered a whole train of them for a perfect stranger, and even though she didn\u2019t know it, she was writing the resum\u00e9 for her future. Don\u2019t pass up an opportunity to give or to be gracious, for you\u2019ve no idea whose camels you\u2019re watering.<\/p>\n

Instead of always having to be the bride at the wedding and the corpse at the funeral, learn to put others first. Follow the example of the Macedonians. Listen, \u2018They gave not only what they could afford, but far more… their first action was to dedicate themselves to the Lord and to us, for whatever directions God might give to them through us.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a08:3\u20135\u00a0TLB<\/sup>) <\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s a formula for making your life count!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to be like Jesus, forget about yourself and live for others, for that\u2019s what He did! Listen: \u2018For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.\u2019 (Mark\u00a010:45\u00a0NIV) Don\u2019t pray for a generous heart; practice being generous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}