{"id":543,"date":"2017-06-17T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2017-06-17T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T05:00:06","slug":"philippians-2-3-something-had-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Philippians 2: 3 &#8211;  \u201cSomething Had To Change\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.\u201d Philippians 2: 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does this mean the interests of others in business, too?<\/p>\n<p>Prior to my relationship with Jesus, I cared way too much about my own interests, especially in business. I have always tried to do the best job possible for my customers, but my sole motivation for owning a business was to earn lots of money.<\/p>\n<p>The monetary success was exciting, but the happiness I experienced from it was very brief. Money was not making my world or me better. Something had to change and I knew that change had to start with me.<\/p>\n<p>So, thirty years ago, I made a commitment of 5-10 minutes of prayer daily. I would talk to God, read a little scripture, review my weaknesses from the prior day and then ask God for his forgiveness. At the end of the first month, I notice a slight change of heart. I have been praying daily ever since.<\/p>\n<p>True humility comes by knowing Jesus, which in turn produces a happiness that selfishness will never know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are my own interests more important than the interests of the Lord; the interests of those He has placed in my life? How\u2019s my prayer life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word \u201cIn humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.\u201d Philippians 2: 3 Applying God&#8217;s Word Does this mean the interests of others in business, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=543\">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-543","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\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}