{"id":1185,"date":"2024-08-17T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T00:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2024-08-17T00:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T00:06:24","slug":"lasting-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLasting Happiness\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\">\u201cEveryone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown\u00a0that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.\u201d 1 Corinthians 9:25<\/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\">Even after the 2024 Olympics, Michael Phelps remains the most medaled Olympian in history with a record 28 medals. He definitely knows what it\u2019s like to be crowned and yet it didn\u2019t bring him lasting happiness. That occurred after reading \u201cThe Purpose Driven Life\u201d by Rick Warren and Phelp\u2019s own realization that true happiness comes from knowing God.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My lasting happiness comes from knowing God and introducing His way of life to others.<\/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\">\u201cChallenge\u201d What makes me happy? Have I experienced the lasting happiness that comes from knowing God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cEveryone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown\u00a0that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.\u201d 1 Corinthians 9:25 Applying God\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1185\">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-1185","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\/1185","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=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}