{"id":1066,"date":"2023-03-18T23:05:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2023-03-18T23:05:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:05:31","slug":"an-economic-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u201cAn Economic Storm\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWatch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save\u00a0both yourself and your hearers.\u201d 1 Timothy 4:16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This verse definitely speaks to me about being saved spiritually. Maybe it speaks a little about not being caught off guard financially, also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last June, I wrote a \u201cChallenge\u201d titled \u201cPrepared Not Scared\u201d. I suggested that everyone stock up on things they may need to weather an economic storm\/recession. Back then I sensed a wave of inflation coming over the horizon, bringing with it, job cutbacks, food shortages, home foreclosures, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last few weeks, we\u2019ve had some big bank failures. Is our own bank safe? I\u2019m not sure about mine, but I am committed to being \u201cPrepared Not Scared\u201d. By reducing my debt, paying some bills in advance and by watching my life and doctrine closely, I hope to be better equipped to handle the economic uncertainties of our times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I only concerned with my own life or do I care enough to help others as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u00a0\u201cWatch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save\u00a0both yourself and your hearers.\u201d 1 Timothy 4:16 Applying God\u2019s Word This verse definitely speaks to me about being saved spiritually. Maybe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1066\">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-1066","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\/1066","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=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}