{"id":7714,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/you-got-any-more\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:55","slug":"you-got-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/you-got-any-more\/","title":{"rendered":"You Got Any More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor was visiting some of his parishioners.  He took his young daughter with him.  As they visited an elderly couple, the man gave her a handful of peanuts.  Expecting her to show a spirit of gratitude, the father asked his daughter, \u201cHoney, what are you supposed to say?\u201d  Sincerely, and with her eyes fixed upon the man, she asked, \u201cYou got any more?\u201d (1)<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like many of us.  We accept God\u2019s gifts, never saying \u201cthank you\u201d but simply asking, \u201cHave you got any more?\u201d  Yet God keeps giving.  That is His nature.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>1. Ray Bowman, First Baptist Church, Mantachie, Mississippi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor was visiting some of his parishioners. He took his young daughter with him. As they visited an elderly couple, the man gave her a handful of peanuts. Expecting her to show a spirit of gratitude, the father asked his daughter, \u201cHoney, what are you supposed to say?\u201d Sincerely, and with her eyes fixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249,247,250,246,248],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}