{"id":353002,"date":"2026-09-21T07:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=353002"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:06:01","slug":"firstfruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/firstfruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Firstfruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.\u2019 \u201cThen you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God. (Deuteronomy 26:10)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Lord God has given us the land, the sun, and the water so that we may enjoy its fruits. In recognition of this, we return to Him the firstfruits of everything He places in our hands.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, in our faithfulness to Him, we place our lives in His care and worship Him with all our hearts and with all our understanding, recognizing that He is the One and Only Lord, the Alpha and the Omega!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.\u2019 \u201cThen you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God. (Deuteronomy 26:10) &nbsp; The Lord God has given us the land, the sun, and the water so that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":353003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-353002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353004,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353002\/revisions\/353004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353002"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=353002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}