{"id":1246,"date":"2021-09-23T18:33:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2021-09-27T19:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T19:13:47","slug":"23-sep-2021-the-law-of-giving-1-acts-818-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/2021\/09\/23\/23-sep-2021-the-law-of-giving-1-acts-818-21\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Sep 2021: THE LAW OF GIVING (1) &#8211; Acts 8:18-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"tie-dropcap\">O<\/span>ne of the ruling principles in God&#8217;s kingdom is giving. There are two kinds of giving; giving upwards and giving downwards. Giving upwards is giving into a \u2018manifested grace\u2019 so as to draw that grace into your life and be blessed \u2013 this however raises the question, \u201cCan one buy grace?\u201d No! There is no way you can give enough money to buy grace, but you can connect to grace by an act of giving.<\/p>\n<p>In Acts 8:18-21, Simon, the sorcerer saw the apostles laying hands on the Believers at Samaria and they received the Holy Ghost. He wanted the same ability and offered them money to buy the power of the Holy Ghost. He said, &#8220;Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.\u201d But Peter said, &#8220;Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was not born-again nor was he a member of the kingdom. He was an occultist that was used to power and was looking for more power to add to his power. Everybody practices giving; but what is motivating each person is different. When you give to a manifested grace, that grace can come upon your life and you can be blessed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Giving downwards is giving towards a \u2018manifested need,\u2019 so as to express God\u2019s blessing on you by being a blessing to someone else.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote-simple\">\n<p><strong>PRI\u00c8RE:<\/strong> Father, I activate the laws of giving correctly to draw grace into my life, so I can be a blessing to my world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"tie-padding  has-padding-left has-padding-right\" style=\"padding-left:5%; padding-right:5%; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0;\">\n\n\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>LA BIBLE EN UN AN :<\/strong>Isaiah 41:17-43:13, Ephesians 2:1-22, Psalms 67:1-7, Proverbs 23:29-35.<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ne of the ruling principles in God&#8217;s kingdom is giving. There are two kinds of giving; giving upwards and giving downwards. Giving upwards is giving into a \u2018manifested grace\u2019 so as to draw that grace into your life and be blessed \u2013 this however raises the question, \u201cCan one buy grace?\u201d No! There is no [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-september"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}