{"id":1084,"date":"2023-06-02T01:21:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T01:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2023-06-02T01:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T01:21:35","slug":"contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u201cContagious\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\">\u201cDo nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.\u00a0Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.\u201d Philippians 2:3<\/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\">The value of the dollar has changed, but the value of a person\u2019s hard work hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not unusual for me to carry around a pocket full of $5- or $10-dollar bills. God places folks in my path all the time that need a small reward for their hard work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louise and I were in a restaurant the other day quietly rewarding a few dishwashers, bussers and waitresses for their hard work. When we asked for our check, our waiter smiled and said, \u201cSomeone already paid it.\u201d I looked around and saw a man at the register with two checks. I approached him and said, \u201cThank you. That was very generous.\u201d He said, \u201cYou are very welcome.\u201d We stepped outside and ended up sharing all that God has been doing in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generosity is contagious and it doesn\u2019t have to have anything to do with money.<\/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\">Am I generous? Have I paid for someone\u2019s bill lately or has someone paid for mine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cDo nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.\u00a0Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.\u201d Philippians 2:3 Applying God\u2019s Word The value of the dollar has changed, but the value of a person\u2019s hard work hasn\u2019t changed. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1084\">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-1084","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\/1084","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=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}