{"id":1727,"date":"2016-06-07T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:45:39","slug":"practically-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/practically-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"Practically useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b class=\"speaker\">Andrew:<\/b> I met a young boy in the crowd carrying five barley loaves and two fish, but that is practically useless in feeding a crowd this large. &#8211; John 6:9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The five loaves and two fish were a perfect match for the needs of the young boy who had packed them. But when matched against the huge hunger of the 5,000+ crowd, these resources were practically useless&#8230;until\u00a0the Word gave thanks for them and\u00a0released them to meet the needs of the people.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re surrounded by huge need, meager resources, unpaid bills, motivated debt collectors and huge pressure from every side to\u00a0provide &#8220;bricks without straw&#8221;, remember\u00a0two things.<\/p>\n<p>Give thanks and then give what you have.<\/p>\n<p>Gratitude and generosity.<\/p>\n<p>These two things might feel utterly redundant and practically useless in meeting the demands of the situation you&#8217;re facing. But\u00a0given that worrying, complaining, grumbling, fretting, panicking and resentment aren&#8217;t giving you the results you need&#8230;try giving thanks and then giving what you have.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not as weak and &#8220;useless&#8221; as <a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/proverbs\/11-24.htm\">they might appear.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew: I met a young boy in the crowd carrying five barley loaves and two fish, but that is practically useless in feeding a crowd this large. &#8211; John 6:9 The five loaves and two fish were a perfect match for the needs of the young boy who had packed them. But when matched against &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/practically-useless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Practically useless&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}