{"id":1129,"date":"2023-12-16T01:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2023-12-16T01:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T01:23:10","slug":"third-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThird Generation\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\">\u201cFinally, all of you, be like-minded,\u00a0be sympathetic, love one another,\u00a0be compassionate and humble.\u201d 1 Peter 3:8<\/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\">It was a short one-hour flight. Louise and I whispered a short prayer to have someone sit next to us that needed Jesus and who wasn\u2019t wearing air-pods. When the young man asked if the empty seat was available, I told him we had been saving it for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t long before God elbowed me to share my testimony. It got quiet real fast, but that pretty much comes with the territory. Then the man said, \u201cI appreciate your honesty and openness and want to reciprocate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was the third generation in a business his father had taken over from his grandfather. He had left another career to help his father, but the business was struggling. At that point he accepted my offer to pray with him. It was a holy moment between two like-minded people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the plane landed, he smiled thanked me and said goodbye.<\/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 praying for opportunities to humbly share God\u2019s compassion and love with others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cFinally, all of you, be like-minded,\u00a0be sympathetic, love one another,\u00a0be compassionate and humble.\u201d 1 Peter 3:8 Applying God\u2019s Word It was a short one-hour flight. Louise and I whispered a short prayer to have someone sit next &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1129\">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-1129","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\/1129","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=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}