{"id":537,"date":"2017-05-27T02:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2017-05-27T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T02:28:13","slug":"colossians-129-trapezius-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Colossians 1:29 &#8211; &#8220;Trapezius Relief&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cT0 this end I strenuously\u00a0contend\u00a0with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.\u201d Colossians 1:29<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Applying God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>A tight Trapezius muscle is painful. It is the muscle on either side of the neck from the head to the shoulder blades. I have been suffering with this condition for about eight weeks. I heard God tell me to see a chiropractor or massage therapist, but I thought the problem would go away on its own.<\/h3>\n<h3>I finally went to see a massage therapist. As this wonderful technician worked out the tightness in my shoulder and neck, I sensed a battle going on inside me between selfishness and selflessness. God had sent me there on purpose to receive healing and to provide healing.<\/h3>\n<h3>At the end of the treatment period, God had ministered to both the therapist and myself.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Do I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ wants to work in and through me?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word \u201cT0 this end I strenuously\u00a0contend\u00a0with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.\u201d Colossians 1:29 Applying God&#8217;s Word A tight Trapezius muscle is painful. It is the muscle on either side of the neck from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=537\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}