{"id":1092,"date":"2023-07-09T00:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T00:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2023-07-09T00:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T00:24:27","slug":"top-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTop Secret\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\">\u201cBut when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,<strong><sup> \u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>so that your giving may be in secret. Matthew 6:3-4<\/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\">&nbsp;Twice a week, she can be seen sitting at the counter of a restaurant we frequent. She is sweet as sugar and has a Yorkie called Baby. She sits in the same spot and always orders the same thing for lunch; a tall Pepsi with a side of fries. We wink to the server and he puts her bill on our tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When she asks for her bill, the server tells her it\u2019s been taken care of. Then she asks who paid for it and they tell her it\u2019s \u201cTop Secret\u201d. As she exits the restaurant, she looks around the room trying to spot the gift giver. It always makes us smile.<\/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 looking for opportunities to secretly surprise someone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cBut when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, \u00a0so that your giving may be in secret. Matthew 6:3-4 Applying God\u2019s Word &nbsp;Twice a week, she &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1092\">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-1092","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\/1092","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=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}