{"id":1135,"date":"2024-01-12T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2024-01-12T20:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T20:30:50","slug":"caught-off-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCaught Off Guard\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\">\u201cHe stilled the storm\u00a0to a whisper; the waves\u00a0of the sea were hushed.\u201d Psalm 107:29<\/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\">Recently, some friends of mine were caught off guard by a rogue wave. They were standing on some rocks looking out at the ocean when out of nowhere they were facing a wall of water. They tried to outrun it and barely escaped it\u2019s powerful grasp. Frightening!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I survived a number of rogue waves during my days in the Navy. The ones that impacted my life even more, though, have been emotional, physical, mental, financial and\/or spiritual in nature. They caught me off guard as well. Why is that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\/we have an enemy who is a thief who comes only to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10).<\/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\">Have I been caught off guard lately by any rogue waves? Do I recognize the culprit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cHe stilled the storm\u00a0to a whisper; the waves\u00a0of the sea were hushed.\u201d Psalm 107:29 Applying God\u2019s Word Recently, some friends of mine were caught off guard by a rogue wave. They were standing on some rocks looking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1135\">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-1135","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\/1135","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=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}