{"id":1174,"date":"2024-06-29T20:37:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2024-06-29T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T21:45:57","slug":"the-great-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Great Escape\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.\u201d Acts 12:5<\/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\">In Acts 12:1-11 we read about Peter\u2019s great escape from jail. I\u2019m sure many folks read scriptural accounts and sense that they are fictional. I don\u2019t. It\u2019s much easier to believe scripture when we acknowledge the \u201cHoly Moments\u201d and miracles we\u2019ve experienced on our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Verse 5, about the church earnestly praying to God for Peter, jumped off the page at me. Praying for one another is what we are called to do. Louise and I spend time in prayer with God and each other every day. We pray for all of you, the church around the world and we pray by name for 80 to 100 people on our prayer list. Are there days when we find it difficult to do? Yes. We have, however, committed ourselves to doing it because it\u2019s so important.<\/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\">Do I have a set time every day to pray? Do my prayers extend to those I know and to those I don\u2019t know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying God\u2019s Word \u201cSo Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.\u201d Acts 12:5 Applying God\u2019s Word In Acts 12:1-11 we read about Peter\u2019s great escape from jail. I\u2019m sure many folks read &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1174\">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-1174","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\/1174","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=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}