{"id":1072,"date":"2023-04-14T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2023-04-14T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:17:39","slug":"still-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStill Fishing\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\">\u201cEarly in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.\u201d John 21:4<\/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\">There were numerous appearances of Jesus, after his resurrection. There were even times His own disciples didn\u2019t know it was Him. Would we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After my return to the Lord in 1987, I devoted my life to prayer and scripture. I was so thirsty for His \u201cWord\u201d and hungry to know Him intimately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later that same year, I experienced an incredible vision. I was walking on this pristine beach when at a distance, I saw a man waving to me. I waved back. As I came closer to him, I realized he wasn\u2019t waving hello, but rather beckoning me to come and help him. I ran up to where he was and noticed he was pulling on a huge net that extended into the water. Caught in the net were hundreds of people\u2019s faces. I grabbed hold of the net and proceeded to help him. I turned and looked into the man\u2019s eyes and realized it was Jesus. He was showing me in advance what I would be helping Him with for the rest of my life. It was powerful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That net has never been empty and probably never will be. I\u2019m still fishing.<\/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 work is Jesus having me help Him with? Do I enjoy working alongside Him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cEarly in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.\u201d John 21:4 Applying God\u2019s Word There were numerous appearances of Jesus, after his resurrection. There were even times &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1072\">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-1072","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\/1072","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=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}