{"id":12706,"date":"2025-07-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12706"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:10:41","slug":"generous-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/generous-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Generous Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pink-Minimalist-Welcome-July-Facebook-Post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pink-Minimalist-Welcome-July-Facebook-Post.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pink-Minimalist-Welcome-July-Facebook-Post-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pink-Minimalist-Welcome-July-Facebook-Post-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generosity towards the less fortunate pleases God.&nbsp; By actively helping someone who can\u2019t help themselves, you do the Lord\u2019s work.&nbsp; When the Creator uses you as His hands and feet, He does so in various ways.&nbsp; The Savior repays you for your kindnesses towards others, not necessarily monetarily, but in different life circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having lunch with a friend, a young military couple got in line behind me.&nbsp; Feeling a nudge from the Holy Spirit, I bought them lunch.&nbsp; Smiles broke over their faces as they shared their story with me.&nbsp; They had gotten married the day before, but couldn\u2019t take a honeymoon because of their work.&nbsp; Overflowing with newlywed energy, they planned lunch as a celebration of their nuptials, and now they didn\u2019t have to pay for it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God blessed me more than He did them that day.&nbsp; The few dollars I paid for their meal doesn\u2019t compare to the joy they brought to my heart.&nbsp; Years later, when I think of the tiny brunette standing close to her tall, lanky husband, a smile comes to my face, like now, as I write about it.&nbsp; I never learned their names, but I have often prayed for God to bless their marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Develop a sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.&nbsp; When you feel the nudge to do something generous, do it immediately and find the joy that comes from obedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Journal Question:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">When has helping someone less fortunate than you brought you more joy than it did them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Random Act of Kindness:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Who can you provide lunch for today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. Generosity towards the less fortunate pleases God.&nbsp; By actively helping someone who can\u2019t help themselves, you do the Lord\u2019s work.&nbsp; When the Creator uses you as His hands and feet, He does so in various ways.&nbsp; The Savior repays you for your kindnesses towards others, not necessarily monetarily, but in different life circumstances.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/generous-spirit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Generous Spirit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12718,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions\/12718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}