{"id":1110,"date":"2023-09-29T00:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2023-09-29T00:22:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:22:15","slug":"four-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFour Friends\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn hearing this, Jesus said,\u00a0\u201cIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.\u201d Matthew 9:12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The above scripture is such an important example for me, because Jesus didn\u2019t discriminate. He made Himself available to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louise and I have friends who are believers and friends who are not. Our non-believing friends know that we are not hesitant to live out our faith. We don\u2019t force it on them, but we are not afraid to let them know we want heaven for them. God does the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four of our friends are fighting terminal cancer. Thus far, only one has accepted our offer to pray with him. One in four isn\u2019t bad. We want heaven for all of them, though. They have to want heaven, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I discriminatory when it comes to sharing Jesus with others? Do I only surround myself with those that are spiritually healthy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cOn hearing this, Jesus said,\u00a0\u201cIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.\u201d Matthew 9:12 Applying God\u2019s Word The above scripture is such an important example for me, because Jesus didn\u2019t discriminate. He made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1110\">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-1110","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\/1110","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=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}