{"id":436,"date":"2018-09-13T20:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=436"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:43:35","slug":"birthday-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/birthday-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.” 1 Chronicles 4:10<\/strong><\/em>
\nI am a blessed woman.\u00a0 Today is my birthday and I have had so much love poured into my life in the first 8 hours of the day it takes my breath away.
\nMy pastor encouraged me to take time and reflect on how special God made me.\u00a0 No one else in the world is like me\u00a0 That I am His masterpiece.\u00a0 I have to admit, it is hard for me to reflect on such things.\u00a0 It isn’t how I feel about myself.\u00a0 It’s hard for me to believe that is how God feels about me.\u00a0 But it is.\u00a0 That is what His word says about me.\u00a0 That is what His word says about you!
\nI am reflecting though on how God answered my prayer from last year.\u00a0 I prayed the prayer of Jabez and asked Him to enlarge my territory.\u00a0 Oh how He has!\u00a0 It is in the people He has blessed me with in my life.\u00a0 Friends of old.\u00a0 Friends of new.\u00a0 Friends He’s brought back into my life.\u00a0 Friend’s He’s restored and renewed.
\nGod has given me more people to love this past year!\u00a0 I’m so grateful.\u00a0 They are all so wonderful!
\nI pray for even more next year.
\nMy pastor was right, I am a masterpiece and so are you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.” 1 Chronicles 4:10 I am a blessed woman.\u00a0 Today is my birthday and… Continue reading Birthday Reflection<\/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-436","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\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}