{"id":1042,"date":"2022-12-24T22:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T22:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2022-12-24T22:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T22:18:29","slug":"the-ultimate-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Ultimate Gift\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him\u00a0and was expecting a child.\u201d Luke 2:5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mary, pregnant with Jesus, is said to have traveled with Joseph about 90 miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem. On arriving, she experienced the height of rejection and yet she filled an abandoned cave with warmth and hope. On top of all that, she labored to bring the ultimate gift into an unbelieving world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s amazing, when I think of what Mary endured so that I could have a personal friendship with Jesus. Jesus is the ultimate gift and yet it took me half of a lifetime to believe it and profess it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are millions of people in the world that know about Mary and Jesus, but who still do not believe. Mary\u2019s hope is that you and I will do whatever it takes to bring everyone the gift of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What am I willing to endure so that someone else can have a personal friendship with Jesus Christ this Christmas?\u00a0 Merry Christmas from Jack and Louise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cHe went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him\u00a0and was expecting a child.\u201d Luke 2:5 Applying God\u2019s Word Mary, pregnant with Jesus, is said to have traveled with Joseph about 90 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1042\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}