{"id":573,"date":"2017-10-20T04:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T04:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2017-10-20T04:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T04:41:14","slug":"jeremiah-2913-all-my-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Jeremiah 29:13  &#8220;All My Wants&#8221; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will seek\u00a0me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.\u201d Jeremiah 29:13<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Louise and I are in Palm Desert to participate in the National Christians in Commerce Conference.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a time of prayer, worship and fellowship with men and women from across the country. It will be an opportunity to seek God with all our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Ethel Barrett says about seeking God in prayer. \u201cIf we realized how often Jesus thinks of us, we would be absorbed with thinking of Him.\u201d That&#8217;s a powerful image for me&#8230;&#8230;.to be absorbed in a conversation with God.<\/p>\n<p>Some say that prayer is a dialogue between God and us; a bridge between the human life and the spiritual life. I say that prayer is to\u00a0my soul, what oxygen is to\u00a0my body. When\u00a0I pray it is no longer\u00a0I praying to God, but rather His Spirit interceding through\u00a0me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is prayer a means of pursuing a deeper relationship with Jesus or a time to express all of my wants?\u00a0How important is it\u00a0for me to\u00a0spend time with God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word \u201cYou will seek\u00a0me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.\u201d Jeremiah 29:13\u00a0 Applying God&#8217;s Word Louise and I are in Palm Desert to participate in the National Christians in Commerce Conference. It will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=573\">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-573","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\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}