{"id":7282,"date":"2021-09-26T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T06:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2021-09-26T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T06:06:50","slug":"open-hands-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/open-hands-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Open Hands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Old Testament Passage<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><sup>17<\/sup>He who has pity on the poor lends to the\u00a0Lord,<br> And He will pay back what he has given.<\/p><cite>Proverbs 19:7<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Question<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) How come God <em>repays<\/em> us when we lend to the poor\neven though the only reason, we have anything in the first place is because of\nGod Himself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) In what way does God <em>repay <\/em>us for giving?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quote<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cThe bread in our cupboard belongs to the hungry man;<\/em> <em>The coat hanging unused belongs to the one who needs it;<\/em> <em>The shoes rotting in our closet belongs to the one who walks barefoot;<\/em> <em>And the money we hoard belongs to the poor.\u201d<\/em><\/p><cite><em>St Ambrose<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Hands Old Testament Passage 17He who has pity on the poor lends to the\u00a0Lord, And He will pay back what he has given. Proverbs 19:7 Question (a) How come God repays us when we lend to the poor even though the only reason, we have anything in the first place is because of God &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/open-hands-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open Hands&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7283,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions\/7283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}