{"id":1264,"date":"2025-06-21T23:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2025-06-21T23:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:33:21","slug":"gifts-of-time-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGifts of Time &amp; Clarity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.\u201d Proverbs 3:27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On what was already a very busy day, I squeezed in a call to my financial institution. A young man named Tom, answered. As Tom searched his computer for my information, I asked, \u201cHow\u2019s Tom today?\u201d He replied, \u201cI need a career change. All I do every day is respond to complaints.\u201d I asked, \u201cWhat are you passionate about?\u201d Tom said, \u201cI\u2019d love to work for the Lord.\u201d I replied, \u201cMaybe you\u2019re already doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I talked with Tom briefly and gave him the web page for \u201cWorkLight\u201d explaining how our ministry mentors people in living out their faith at work. God was empowering me to share the gifts of my time and clarity with Tom. I asked, \u201cCan I pray with you , Tom?\u201d He answered, \u201cSure.\u201d When I finished praying, I knew God had blessed both Tom and I with the gift of His presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I withholding good from those to whom God wants to bless? Do I know when God empowers me to act?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cDo not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.\u201d Proverbs 3:27 Applying God\u2019s Word On what was already a very busy day, I squeezed in a call &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1264\">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-1264","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\/1264","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=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}