{"id":183,"date":"2009-06-12T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T19:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/experiencing-gods-blessings-for-30-years"},"modified":"2009-06-12T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T19:28:03","slug":"experiencing-gods-blessings-for-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/experiencing-gods-blessings-for-30-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Experiencing God&#8217;s blessings for 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83524c19a69e20115700af43d970c alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 269px; height: 179px;\" alt=\"G&amp;r niagra\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/6a00d83524c19a69e20115700af43d970c-320wi.jpg\" \/> &#8220;How happy are those who fear the Lord\u2014 all who follow his ways!\u00a0You will enjoy the fruit of your labor&#8230; How rich your life!\u00a0Your wife will be like a fruitful vine, flourishing within your home. And look at all those children!\u00a0 There they sit around your table as vigorous and healthy as young olive trees.\u00a0That is the Lord&#8217;s reward for those who fear him. May the Lord continually bless you &#8230; May you live to enjoy your grandchildren&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> (Psalm 128:1-6 NLT).<\/p>\n<p>Robin and I celebrated our 30-year anniversary last week. I surprised her with a trip to Niagra Falls (Sorry guys. I know this raises the bar for all of you.).<\/p>\n<p>The whole time we were there I couldn&#8217;t get over how much God has blessed us. Our marriage, our children, our grandchildren, our church family, and the opportunity to get away and enjoy one another and God&#8217;s creation&#8230; I was overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83524c19a69e2011570ffdfd2970b alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 159px; height: 124px;\" alt=\"100_2405\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/6a00d83524c19a69e2011570ffdfd2970b-120wi.jpg\" \/> While reading the One Year Bible entry earlier this week, I discovered a psalmist who must have have felt the same. He describes better than I can what experiencing God&#8217;s blessings over the past 30 years have been like.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you God for &#8220;continually&#8221; blessing us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How happy are those who fear the Lord\u2014 all who follow his ways!\u00a0You will enjoy the fruit of your labor&#8230; How rich your life!\u00a0Your wife will be like a fruitful vine, flourishing within your home. And look at all those children!\u00a0 There they sit around your table as vigorous and healthy as young olive trees.\u00a0That<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}