{"id":570,"date":"2017-10-08T06:18:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T06:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2017-10-08T06:18:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T06:18:48","slug":"2-corinthians-105-every-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"2 Corinthians 10:5 \u201cEvery Thought\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,\u00a0and we take captive every thought to make it obedient\u00a0to Christ.&#8221;\u00a02 Corinthians 10:5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know that God gives me opportunities repeatedly, until my thoughts are obedient to Him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much easier to count those times when I\u2019ve obeyed God than it is to count the times that I haven\u2019t. Fortunately, God is a very forgiving God. If I ignore an opportunity, He sends me another one just like it. :&gt;)<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven years ago, I carried a little slip of paper around in my shirt pocket for weeks. Every time I changed shirts, I would transfer the little slip of paper to the new shirt pocket. A friend had given me his pastor\u2019s phone number saying that his pastor would let us use the church hall for meetings. I was afraid but believed God was asking me to be obedient. I finally went to talk with the pastor and we&#8217;ve been meeting weekly at that church hall ever since. I heard God&#8217;s voice but I wasn\u2019t quick to obey Him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is it that God is continuously asking me to do? Am I ignoring Him or being obedient to what I hear?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word \u201cWe demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,\u00a0and we take captive every thought to make it obedient\u00a0to Christ.&#8221;\u00a02 Corinthians 10:5 Applying God&#8217;s Word I know that God gives me opportunities &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=570\">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-570","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\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}