{"id":640,"date":"2018-08-10T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2018-08-10T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T20:58:08","slug":"2-timothy-215-no-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"2 Timothy 2:15 \u2013 \u201cNo Shame\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.\u201d\u00a0 2 Timothy 2:15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure that everyone receives urgings from the Holy Spirit. Some would say they never have, but only because their spiritual antennas are not tuned into God\u2019s signals. ;&gt;)<\/p>\n<p>I was enjoying light conversation with a small group of new friends. One woman was sharing some struggles her son is going through. The woman asked everyone to pray for her son.<\/p>\n<p>I felt the Holy Spirit ask me to pray for her son right then and there. It was an uncomfortable situation; especially among a group of folks I was just getting to know.<\/p>\n<p>I balked, at first, but the urging came again. I broke into prayer, which brought all of us into the presence of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do I hear the urging of God\u2019s Holy Spirit and follow His instruction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cDo your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.\u201d\u00a0 2 Timothy 2:15 Applying God\u2019s Word I\u2019m pretty sure &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=640\">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-640","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\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}