{"id":3,"date":"2014-02-24T03:20:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T03:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/?p=3"},"modified":"2015-06-04T14:10:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:10:08","slug":"a-thought-on-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"A Thought on Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Thessalonians 5:11<br \/>\nWherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we hosted our annual ladies&#8217; day event. This event is designed for sisters in Christ to come together to give praise to God, to learn more of God and to fellowship together. It is also a time to invite those ladies we come across in our daily lives that are missing the peace of God in their lives. I am so very happy to say that we had both sisters in Christ and visitors with us yesterday. What an encouragement it was.<\/p>\n<p>Not even discussing the blessings I received from preparing one of the lessons, or the things I learned and was reminded of while listening to the other two lessons we were blessed to hear, I was blessed to enjoy time in fellowship with my sisters in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>I think too often we forget how important our friendships are to others. A sister recently texted me thanking me for all I do for her. My husband asked &#8220;What do you do for her?&#8221; After humbly thinking about the little I do for her my reply was &#8220;I guess I encourage her.&#8221; \u00a0And her thanks to me was her encouraging me right back.<\/p>\n<p>We all need encouragement from time to time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another. Romans 14:19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Thessalonians 5:11 Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do. Yesterday we hosted our annual ladies&#8217; day event. This event is designed for sisters in Christ to come together to give praise to God, to learn more of God and to fellowship together. It is also a time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/?p=3\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Thought on Encouragement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladiespage.haywardchurchofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}