{"id":1047,"date":"2023-01-13T03:46:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T03:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2023-01-13T03:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T03:46:53","slug":"the-last-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Last Quarter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChallenge\u201d \u201cOur days may come to seventy years, or eighty,\u00a0if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.\u201d Psalm 90:10<\/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\">Last weekend, I watched the last quarter of a football game. Interesting! The teams had already played hard for three quarters, but worked even harder during the fourth and last quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are also four quarters in the lifespan of an average human being (0-20, 20-40, 40-60, 60-80). I\u2019m at the tail-end of my last quarter already. It went by so fast. I worked hard during the first three quarters, but I know that this last quarter is just as important, if not more so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t really have anything to prove. There\u2019s no bucket list of things I\u2019ve missed out on. I wake up each day praying that God will present me with another opportunity to tell someone about him. I don\u2019t care if He asks me to block, run or catch a pass, as long as I\u2019m in the game and on the field with Him. There\u2019s still time in this last quarter to win one for the Gipper.<\/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\">Which quarter am I in? Do I take the field with Jesus every day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cChallenge\u201d \u201cOur days may come to seventy years, or eighty,\u00a0if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.\u201d Psalm 90:10 Applying God\u2019s Word Last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1047\">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-1047","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\/1047","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=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}