{"id":572,"date":"2017-10-12T21:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2017-10-12T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T21:24:57","slug":"amos-911-14-my-sisters-house-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Amos 9:11 &#038; 14 \u2013 \u201cMy Sister\u2019s House Is Gone\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that day, I will restore David\u2019s\u00a0fallen shelter, repair its broken walls, restore its ruins and rebuild it as it used to be\u2026They will rebuild the ruined cities\u00a0and live in them. They will plant vineyards\u00a0and drink their wine.\u201d Amos 9:11 &amp; 14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people have suffered great losses the last couple months; the shooting in Vegas, the hurricane\u2019s in Puerto Rico and now the fire storms in California.<\/p>\n<p>My own sister and brother-in-law escaped the fires in Santa Rosa Ca., with two cars and two dogs. Unfortunately, they lost their newly remodeled home and everything in it.<\/p>\n<p>The other night, I was overwhelmed by the sadness of it all. My wife Louise handed me the bible. She said, \u201cPick any page and read.\u201d I flipped the bible open to the book of Amos, chapter 9 verse 11 (above) and began to read. Some would say, \u201cA coincidence.\u201d When that happens to me, I believe it\u2019s the voice of God speaking clear as ever.<\/p>\n<p>God has no doubt been hearing from believers and non-believers this past month or two. Many will blame Him for all that they lost, but few will give Him credit for all that He saved. God is on our side, but there is an enemy who isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is God asking me to do to help Him help others who are hurting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word \u201cIn that day, I will restore David\u2019s\u00a0fallen shelter, repair its broken walls, restore its ruins and rebuild it as it used to be\u2026They will rebuild the ruined cities\u00a0and live in them. They will plant vineyards\u00a0and drink their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=572\">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-572","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\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}