{"id":1208,"date":"2024-11-30T18:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2024-11-30T18:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:57:05","slug":"its-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s Impossible\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\">\u201cRejoice always,\u00a0pray continually,\u00a0give thanks in all circumstances;\u00a0for this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.\u201d 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18<\/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\">\u201cIt\u2019s Impossible\u201d! That was my reaction to the above scripture the first hundred times I read it. Surely the apostle Paul was out of his mind when he wrote it, right? Actually, Paul wrote it because his experience of praying continually brought him great joy and an attitude of gratitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does praying continually really work? I know that it does. Even though I\u2019m still a student of praying continually, I\u2019m incredibly thankful for the immeasurable amount of God\u2019s joy that comes from prayer. My prayers give the Holy Spirit the opportunity to open my spiritual eyes to what God is asking of me. In other words prayer is my spiritual antenna. If it\u2019s not extended I not only miss out on God\u2019s joy, I also miss out on the signals and promptings from God\u2019s Holy Spirit.<\/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 practice praying continually? Is my spiritual antenna picking up God\u2019s signals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cRejoice always,\u00a0pray continually,\u00a0give thanks in all circumstances;\u00a0for this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.\u201d 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18 Applying God\u2019s Word \u201cIt\u2019s Impossible\u201d! That was my reaction to the above scripture the first hundred times &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1208\">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-1208","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\/1208","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=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}