{"id":9257,"date":"2013-11-16T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2013-11-16T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T13:46:19","slug":"may-my-praises-fill-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9257","title":{"rendered":"May my praises, fill the temple…….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever want to send a message to God? \u00a0How can you get your thoughts, requests, and praises into His mailbox? \u00a0Start with praising Him! \u00a0Every prayer, even those when we are in deep despair should start with praise. \u00a0Praise is \u00a0the act of acknowledging that God is who He is! \u00a0The all powerful, omniscient, omnipotent God of the Universes! \u00a0The beginning of conversation with God is recognizing who He really is! \u00a0Praising Him is admitting that we owe everything to Him, that without Him there is nothing. \u00a0This opens the door to true conversation with our Heavenly Father! This morning I am filled with thankfulness, and this is my prayer to Him today;<\/p>\n

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Father thank you for your precious Son, Jesus, for His sacrifice for me, for my forgiveness for which I am fully undeserving, but so thankful to receive.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Father thank you that I am home with Sherelene, enjoying her company and our wonderful fellowship, friendship and the love we share. \u00a0Once again I don’t deserve such a wonderful bride, but you miraculously placed her in my life! \u00a0She has been my rock on earth!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Father thank you for the incredible family you have blessed me with, Scott and Diane, Hannah and Ben, Catherine and Clint, Cassidy and Cade, and Wes and Rhonda, Elijah and Abigail. \u00a0For my brother Homer, and for Sherlene’s wonderful family.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thanks you for the great people I get to work with in the field and call my friends, Jim Begley, Jack Graham, John Barrett, Chuck Barnes, Chuck Summers, and I will stop there because as you know Father the list is almost endless! \u00a0You’ve richly blessed me to let me be a part of these people’s lives and let them be in mine.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Father thank you for the countless friends that you’ve brought into my life through photography, Jim and Sue, Susan, Lynn, Ted, Miles, Don, Stan, Carl, David and Keri, Kent and Raymond, Ron, and John Walrath, Joshua and Rodney, Scott, Matt, RC, Adam, Joe, \u00a0and Richard, and the hundreds and thousands of others that have touched my life!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thank you for the thousands of fantastic people I’ve gotten to meet, share with, and shoot with in the field across America and the world!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thank you for the sheer joy I still have when I hold a camera in my hands and see this fantastic world you have made, and have the chance to try \u00a0and capture some of \u00a0it!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Father, I raise up your Holy Name, I know all I have is because of you……..<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you Father. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Amen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Have a blessed weekend,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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Photo Note: \u00a0Shot at Nelson Ghost Town, the site of a workshop next November with Jack Graham and I. \u00a0Fuji X-Pro 1 and 55-200 lens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever want to send a message to God? \u00a0How can you get your thoughts, requests, and praises into His mailbox? \u00a0Start with praising Him! \u00a0Every prayer, even those when we are in deep despair should start with praise. \u00a0Praise is \u00a0the act of acknowledging that God is who He is! \u00a0The all powerful, omniscient, omnipotent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9260,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions\/9260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}