{"id":1240,"date":"2025-04-05T02:09:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2025-04-05T02:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:09:42","slug":"gods-best-seller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGod\u2019s Best Seller\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\">\u201cAll Scripture is God-breathed\u00a0and is useful for teaching,\u00a0rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.\u201d 2 Timothy 3:16-17<\/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\">I often tell folks that I don\u2019t read the Bible. The Bible reads me. The Bible never made much sense to me until I invited the Holy Spirit into my life. After that, what once seemed like an entirely different language, became clear, relatable and applicable to every area of my life. The Bible has taught me so much over the last 38 years and yet I sense that I may still be at a primary grade level of understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God\u2019s word is banned in many countries. Even though it\u2019s not banned in our country, not all of us appreciate the incredible gift that it is. It constantly teaches, rebukes, encourages, corrects and shapes us into disciples of Jesus. Picture being face to face with Jesus someday and having Him ask, \u201cWhat did you think of my best seller?\u201d<\/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\">Have I read God\u2019s best seller? Have I allowed it to read me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cAll Scripture is God-breathed\u00a0and is useful for teaching,\u00a0rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.\u201d 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Applying God\u2019s Word I often tell folks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1240\">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-1240","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\/1240","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=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}