{"id":180,"date":"2014-03-19T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/?p=180"},"modified":"2014-03-19T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:02:30","slug":"masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/2014\/03\/19\/masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we travel across the Northwest raising our support, we&#8217;ve been to 15 or 20 churches. We are very grateful to God and to the people He has used in this process. Sometimes I wonder why people are willing to do so much for us without even knowing us.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s all part of God&#8217;s plan. And that&#8217;s one of the best parts about this. God is not just working through us, but also through all the people that we&#8217;ve met. He&#8217;s doing things that we are completely unaware of in the churches and communities we&#8217;ve visited.<\/p>\n<p>We are involved in only one small part of God&#8217;s plan. But God is using every part of His church to accomplish His purposes. One of my favorite verses is Eph. 2:10, which says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For we are God&#8217;s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So God has a masterpiece, and we are part of it. He even knows what He&#8217;s got planned for us to do. That helps me keep going when I don&#8217;t feel like it sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Praise:<\/p>\n<p>-72 is our current percentage. Getting closer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-God has provided people, churches, prayer and money in ways we had not imagined<\/p>\n<p>Prayer:<\/p>\n<p>-That we continue in our walks with God and learn what He wants to teach us<\/p>\n<p>-God has provided so far, and we have no doubt He will continue. But don&#8217;t stop praying for our financial needs<\/p>\n<p>Thank you! God has clearly answered ours and your prayers.<\/p>\n<p>The McIlroys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we travel across the Northwest raising our support, we&#8217;ve been to 15 or 20 churches. We are very grateful to God and to the people He has used in this process. Sometimes I wonder why people are willing to do so much for us without even knowing us. But it&#8217;s all part of God&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lincoln-mcilroy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}