{"id":1104,"date":"2023-09-01T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2023-09-01T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:11:35","slug":"23-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"\u201c23 &amp; Me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThen he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, \u2018Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.\u201d Luke 15:6 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s a beautiful young lady who is married and living in California. She happened to invest in a genetic test from 23 &amp; Me, which generates a report of each customer&#8217;s ancestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, the young woman cautiously contacted our family looking for her biological father. Based on the details we were given, one of my younger brothers recognized her mother as a woman he dated briefly. After taking a similar genetic test, the results showed that unknowingly he was her father. My brother was thrilled, because he doesn\u2019t have any children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend, our family came together to have dinner with this courageous young woman and her husband. Talk about a time of rejoicing over finding lost sheep. It was so wonderfully moving. Thank You Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Have I entertained any lost sheep lately or tried to help someone who is lost find their way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cThen he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, \u2018Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.\u201d Luke 15:6 Applying God\u2019s Word She\u2019s a beautiful young lady who is married and living in California. She &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1104\">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-1104","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\/1104","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=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}