{"id":2053,"date":"2015-04-10T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2017-10-29T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T21:47:26","slug":"blessed-be-god-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2015\/blessed-be-god-because\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Be God Because&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lectura\" style=\"width:45%\">Reading:<\/p>\n<h3>Ephesians 1:1-6<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the good pleasure of His will,<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li>He has blessed us generously in Christ.<\/li>\n<li>He has chosen us in Christ.<\/li>\n<li>He has adopted us by Christ.<\/li>\n<li>He has graced us in Christ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that we should live before Him in holiness, in blamelessness, and in love &#8212; manifesting the praiseworthy glory of His grace. <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:<\/p>\n<p>According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:<\/p>\n<p>Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,<\/p>\n<p>To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Ephesians 1:3-6)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, blessed be God!<\/p>\n<p>He deserves that I live before Him that way. I renew my commitment to Him for that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wallpaper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/the-faithful\/\" title=\"The Faithful\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/thefaithful-s.jpg\" alt=\"[the faithful in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:1)]\" title=\"the faithful in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:1)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The faithful in Christ Jesus&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<p><strong>More from Ephesians 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2005\/the-anti-turmoil\/\" title=\"The Anti-Turmoil\">The Anti-Turmoil<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/the-faithful\/\" title=\"The Faithful\">The Faithful<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of His generous good pleasure toward us!<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[6],"tags":[96,40,44,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-2053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ephesians","7":"tag-aspiration","8":"tag-assurance","9":"tag-live-right","10":"tag-obedience","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-x7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}