{"id":1324,"date":"2026-02-07T18:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:10:21","slug":"the-reaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Reaper\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.&#8221; John 4:38<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Others really have done the hard work. A heavy price was paid so that I could not only experience an intimate relationship with Jesus, but so I could also somehow pay it forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How could I not let God use me, after I have received so much? Like many of you, I love being the harvester or the reaper; the one God uses to close the deal. I love being used by God to turn the soil of a person\u2019s heart and to sow His words of light where only darkness seems to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a rare day when God doesn\u2019t send me someone to pray with. Some days I\u2019m God\u2019s reaper, but most of the time He has me busy sowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChallenge\u201d Does my life \u201cProfit\u201d God or myself? If others before me have done the hard work for God, what am I doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cI sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.&#8221; John 4:38 Applying God\u2019s Word Others really have done the hard &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1324\">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-1324","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\/1324","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=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}