{"id":455,"date":"2022-08-02T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/?p=455"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:34:01","slug":"august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>ALL IN!<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Many understand the idea of <em>GIVING AN OFFERING<\/em> at church&#8230; the envelopes for our checks, a box for collecting and a time allotted for giving&#8230; all familiar, right? It\u2019s an acknowledgement of God\u2019s blessings upon us and our commitment to His ministry&#8230; an integral part of our worship and a way to open us up to God\u2019s favor and mercy &#8211; It\u2019s even a good antidote to materialism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color\"><strong>While most understand giving, many still need help with the idea of OFFERING OURSELVES to God&#8230;. further than that, we need to understand \u201coffering ourselves as a <em>LIVING SACRIFICE!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">Rom.12:1 says <em>\u201c<\/em><em>Therefore, I urge you,&nbsp;brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,&nbsp;holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and proper worship.\u2019<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A known womanizer spoke to his pastor&#8230; \u201c<em>You know, pastor, everyone thinks I\u2019m this immoral, ungodly womanizer who doesn\u2019t have values&#8230; the truth is I do&#8230; I never sleep with anyone w\/in 50 miles of my home!<\/em>\u201d &nbsp;&#8211; he has values alright, but limited to a 50-mile radius! <strong><em>He\u2019s NOT all in!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cALL IN\u201d is not just the commitment and willingness to DIE for SOMETHING <em>(although that IS a sure sign of it!)<\/em>&#8230; but it involves the <em>RESOLVE to LIVE for SOMETHING<\/em> (or Someone!). To \u201cOffer Up Ourselves as a Living Sacrifice\u201d is the DAILY DECISION to PLEASE GOD above all and to put a smile upon His face with the way I live!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Are you ALL IN?<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay fit, stay healthy, stay blessed this week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pastor Vino<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitterbutton\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 5px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"August 2022\" data-via=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/?p=455\" data-lang=\"en\" data-related=\"DolcePixel:We make beautiful and sweet WordPress Themes\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALL IN! Many understand the idea of GIVING AN OFFERING at church&#8230; the envelopes for our checks, a box for collecting and a time allotted for giving&#8230; all familiar, right? It\u2019s an acknowledgement of God\u2019s blessings upon us and our commitment to His ministry&#8230; an integral part of our worship and a way to open us up to God\u2019s favor and mercy &#8211; It\u2019s even a good antidote to materialism! While most understand giving, many still need help with the idea of OFFERING OURSELVES to God&#8230;. further than that, we need to understand \u201coffering ourselves as a LIVING SACRIFICE!\u201d Rom.12:1 says \u201cTherefore, I urge you,&nbsp;brothers<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/?p=455\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-winadmin","4":"post-455","6":"format-standard","7":"category-pastorscorner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}