{"id":201820,"date":"2016-03-26T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T08:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=201820"},"modified":"2016-03-26T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T08:33:45","slug":"count-blessings-mahama-ghanaians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=201820","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Count your blessings&#8217;- Mahama tells Ghanaians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama has asked Ghanaians to celebrate the success Ghana has chalked over the years instead of placing emphasis on the challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Ghana has a huge potential if only we will take advantage.When we celebrate our success we will go forward and that is why I say count your blessings one by one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done,&#8221;the President said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the Good Friday Service of the Light House Chapel International at the Independence Square in Accra, the President further stated that Ghana&#8217;s problems would\u00a0be solved if the citizenry learn to put away self doubt\u00a0and remain optimistic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201821\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-201821 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-friday.jpg\" alt=\"Good friday\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Good Friday Service with Evangelist Dag Heward Mills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;When we cast our self doubt we will be able to make it. The greatest enemy is self doubt. If you are afflicted with self doubt you cannot make it,&#8221; said the President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0Difficult decisions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President further indicated that government in a bid to resolve some challenges has been forced to take some difficult decisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As a leader you are the head of the family and you have dependents and you have to punish your children and that is is similar to the decisions you take concerning a nation. You have to take difficult decisions in order that things can get better&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Easter message\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President was hopeful that the Easter festivities will &#8220;mark a new beginning&#8221; in the lives of Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I want to use this occasion to express my best wishes to all Ghanaians. May the Spirit of Easter mark a new beginning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mahama has asked Ghanaians to celebrate the success Ghana has chalked over the years instead of placing emphasis on the challenges. &#8220;Ghana has a huge potential if only we will take advantage.When we celebrate our success we will go forward and that is why I say count your blessings one by one and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}