{"id":4165,"date":"2011-10-05T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2011-10-05T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:11:01","slug":"eternal-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4165","title":{"rendered":"Eternal Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=4166\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4166\" title=\"How-To-Read-A-Stock-Market-Graph\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/How-To-Read-A-Stock-Market-Graph-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/How-To-Read-A-Stock-Market-Graph-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/How-To-Read-A-Stock-Market-Graph-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/How-To-Read-A-Stock-Market-Graph.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One reason we must give now is that if we delay, our hearts may change, and we may not follow through with giving.\u00a0 If you procrastinate, the same heart that&#8217;s prompting you to give today may later persuade you not to.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because when you postpone giving, your heart&#8217;s vested interests increase on earth and decrease in heaven.\u00a0 Additionally, you might spend the resources you had set aside for the Lord&#8217;s work on earthly treasures and not have the financial means to give to the Lord when the need is greatest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>part of the discussion in Randy Alcorn\u2019s devotional book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Treasure-Principle-Unlocking-Secret-LifeChange\/dp\/1590525086\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317208308&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Treasure Principle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Peter 1:3-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>\u00a0Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,<strong>4<\/strong>\u00a0to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason we must give now is that if we delay, our hearts may change, and we may not follow through with giving.\u00a0 If you procrastinate, the same heart that&#8217;s prompting you to give today may later persuade you not to.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because when you postpone giving, your heart&#8217;s vested interests increase on earth and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,16,23,28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-family","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}