{"id":1141,"date":"2024-02-11T04:48:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T04:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2024-02-11T04:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T04:48:52","slug":"why-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhy This?\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\">\u201cIn their hearts humans plan their course, but the\u00a0Lord\u00a0establishes their steps.\u201d Proverbs 16:9<\/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\">Next weekend, I will be part of team presenting yet another Christians in Commerce\/WorkLight men\u2019s retreat. This one is in Palm Desert, California. Someone asked me how many of these men\u2019s retreats I\u2019ve gone on. The answer is, \u201cA lot.\u201d It has been a lot and all of them have been special because of the makeup of men attending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why this ministry? I have to say that God has definitely called me to this work. There have been times when I have wanted to quit, but those were times when I was struggling with a deep crisis of some kind. God\u2019s mercy and love always draws me right back to His purpose for my life; to evangelize. There\u2019s nothing more exciting, challenging and rewarding than working alongside God. Nothing!<\/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\u2019s God\u2019s purpose for my life. Am I exited about the work He\u2019s called me to do? \u201cWhy this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cIn their hearts humans plan their course, but the\u00a0Lord\u00a0establishes their steps.\u201d Proverbs 16:9 Applying God\u2019s Word Next weekend, I will be part of team presenting yet another Christians in Commerce\/WorkLight men\u2019s retreat. This one is in Palm &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1141\">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-1141","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\/1141","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=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}