{"id":1175,"date":"2024-07-06T16:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T16:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2024-07-06T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T16:24:36","slug":"luck-of-the-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLuck Of The Draw\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\">\u201cThen they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.\u201d Acts 1:26<\/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\">Is Acts 1:26 saying that things come about by the luck of the draw. No. God doesn\u2019t have to count on luck. He chose Matthias to be one of the 12\u2026Twelve.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Sunday\u2019s scripture, Mark 5:21-43, was about Jesus healing a woman who was sick for 12 years. In the same day He raised a 12 year old girl from the dead. I had never put the two 12\u201ds together before. Was it a coincidence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s said that the number 12 symbolizes faith, the church and divine rule. It appears 187 times in the Bible. There\u2019s the 12 tribes of Israel, 12 minor prophets, 12 sons of Jacob, 12 stones of Gilgal, 12 apostles and the 12 baskets of leftovers from feeding the 5,000, just to mention a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing in scripture is about coincidence or luck of the draw. It is about faith and trust in God.<\/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 believe the scriptures to be absolute truth? How strong is my faith?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cThen they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.\u201d Acts 1:26 Applying God\u2019s Word Is Acts 1:26 saying that things come about by the luck of the draw. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1175\">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":[36,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookis-of-the-b","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}