{"id":1102,"date":"2023-08-26T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2023-08-26T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T20:39:10","slug":"morse-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMorse Code\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\">\u201cSo Christ himself gave&nbsp;the apostles,&nbsp;the prophets,&nbsp;the evangelists,&nbsp;the pastors and teachers,&nbsp;to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ&nbsp;may be built up.\u201d Ephesians 4:11-12<\/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\">I spent three years on a submarine called \u201cThe USS Sea Cat\u201d. The communication capabilities back then were antiquated compared to now, which meant I had to memorize the coded alphabet to send and\/or receive messages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example: <strong>M&#8211; O \u2212\u2212\u2212 R \u00b7\u2212\u00b7 S \u00b7\u00b7\u00b7 E \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 C \u2212\u00b7\u2212\u00b7 O \u2212\u2212\u2212 D \u2212\u00b7\u00b7 E \u00b7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had to learn to type, therefore, I spent hours listening to coded messages, typing them and sending them. It became second nature for me. I wasn\u2019t real fast, but could receive and send about 40 words per minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God has blessed me with a number of gifts that serve His people. Looking back though, I realize that God also equipped me for works of service to His people through the simple gift of typing.<\/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 has God equipped me with for works of service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cSo Christ himself gave&nbsp;the apostles,&nbsp;the prophets,&nbsp;the evangelists,&nbsp;the pastors and teachers,&nbsp;to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ&nbsp;may be built up.\u201d Ephesians 4:11-12 Applying God\u2019s Word I spent three years on a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1102\">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-1102","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\/1102","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=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}