{"id":1147,"date":"2024-12-28T07:28:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2024-12-28T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:42:13","slug":"end-beginning-of-the-year-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"End of 2024 &#038; Beginning of 2025 Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/12\/Cox_Outing-500x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cox_Outing-500x117.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cox_Outing-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cox_Outing-768x180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Cox_Outing.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>As you end 2024:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May you clearly see how the Lord was loving and kind.<\/li>\n<li>May the providential hand of the Lord be evident.<\/li>\n<li>May you have an eternal perspective on the struggles and trials of the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>As you begin 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May the Lord give you health, not for your comfort or ease, but to serve Him with strength and vigor.<\/li>\n<li>May the Lord grant you prosperity, not so you can spend it on yourself, but to advance His kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>May the Lord bless you so you can bless others.<\/li>\n<li>May the Lord fill you with faith, hope, and love so you can be poured out to a parched world in desperate need of the Savior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In case you missed it:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Our 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=1134\">Top 10 Thankful List<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our (Lord willing) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=1139\">2025: Purposeful\u2013doing what we do with purpose<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=1142\">A Christmas Reflection and Prayer<\/a>\u00a0 (which is a prequel to this blessing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Link to financially support us: <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.etransfer.com\/ICM\/SupporttheCoxes.cfm\">secure.etransfer.com\/ICM\/SupporttheCoxes.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you end 2024: May you clearly see how the Lord was loving and kind. May the providential hand of the Lord be evident. May you have an eternal perspective on the struggles and trials of the year. As you begin 2025: May the Lord give you health, not for your comfort or ease, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}