{"id":1203,"date":"2024-11-09T21:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2024-11-09T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T21:50:32","slug":"winners-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWinners &amp; Losers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut the one who looks into the perfect law,\u00a0the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts,\u00a0he will be blessed in his doing.\u201d James 1:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Becoming a hearer or a doer of God\u2019s word is no easy task. As a young man, I was too caught up in myself and my worldly image to hear anything God was trying to tell me. The more I strived to be a winner in the world the further I drifted away from God and His purpose for my life. I was more focused on being a loser in the eyes of the world than a winner in the eyes of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week\u2019s election seemed to label people in our nation winners or losers based on who they voted for. Not so! We are all winners if we look into the perfect law of liberty, persevere, and are not a \u201chearer who forgets but a doer who acts\u201d out of love for Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0<strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I a winner in the eyes of the world or in the eyes of God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cBut the one who looks into the perfect law,\u00a0the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts,\u00a0he will be blessed in his doing.\u201d James 1:25 Applying God\u2019s Word Becoming a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1203\">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-1203","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\/1203","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=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}