{"id":1164,"date":"2024-05-19T02:05:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T02:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2024-05-19T02:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T02:05:31","slug":"who-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWho Are They\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\">\u201cWhen the day of Pentecost\u00a0came, they were all together\u00a0in one place.\u201d \u00a0Acts 2:1-11<\/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\">The word \u201cTHEY\u201d is described as God-fearing&nbsp;Jews from every nation who were in Jerusalem for the Feast of Shavuot. I\u2019m pretty sure Jesus orchestrated this union between Jews and early Christians on purpose. The reading goes on to say that all were filled with the Holy Spirit, not just some\u2026All. Shavuot and Pentecost are usually celebrated within days of each other every year. Do you think UNITY was then and is now important to God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I was raised Christian, I didn\u2019t make an adult decision to follow Jesus, until age forty. Some very holy men explained Pentecost, the baptism of the Holy Spirit and then asked to pray with me. Those same men held me accountable to daily prayer, reading scripture, reflecting on what I read and the application of God\u2019s truth to all the areas of my life.<\/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 made a decision to follow Jesus? Am I praying, reading scripture, reflecting on it and applying it in my own life? \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cWhen the day of Pentecost\u00a0came, they were all together\u00a0in one place.\u201d \u00a0Acts 2:1-11 Applying God\u2019s Word The word \u201cTHEY\u201d is described as God-fearing&nbsp;Jews from every nation who were in Jerusalem for the Feast of Shavuot. I\u2019m pretty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1164\">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-1164","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\/1164","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=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}