{"id":625,"date":"2018-06-03T03:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T03:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2018-06-03T03:12:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T03:12:23","slug":"acts-2024-im-still-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Acts 20:24 \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m Still Working\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I consider my life worth nothing to me;\u00a0my only aim is to finish the race\u00a0and complete the task\u00a0the Lord Jesus has given me\u2014the task of testifying to the good news of God\u2019s grace.\u201d Acts 20:24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My life really wasn\u2019t worth much until I gave it to Jesus Christ. A lack of trust and making money delayed that from happening.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still working. Shouldn\u2019t I be retired? Shouldn\u2019t I be sitting in a rocking chair, hitting the little white ball or checking things off my bucket list?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m working, because my occupation allows me to. I love taking care of the customers who have placed their trust in me. Making money hasn\u2019t been my motivation for over thirty years; serving each of them has.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus task for me has been to use my work and my area of influence for Him. I continue to do that. Jesus wants me to testify to the good news of His grace, in whatever He has me doing. He will tell me when He wants me to stop one thing and do another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Am I using my area of influence to complete the task Jesus has given me? Will I ever retire from testifying to the good news of God\u2019s grace?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cHowever, I consider my life worth nothing to me;\u00a0my only aim is to finish the race\u00a0and complete the task\u00a0the Lord Jesus has given me\u2014the task of testifying to the good news of God\u2019s grace.\u201d Acts 20:24 Applying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=625\">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-625","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\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}