{"id":667,"date":"2018-12-06T00:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2018-12-06T00:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:20:45","slug":"matthew-929-seventy-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 9:29 &#8211; \u201cSeventy Two\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen he touched their eyes and said,\u00a0\u201cAccording to your faith let it be done to you\u201d; and their sight was restored.\u201d Matthew 9:27-31<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I read this scripture, I think about how blessed I am to have my eyesight and not be wearing glasses at age seventy-two. The scripture says something more important to me, though, than that.<\/p>\n<p>As my faith has grown so has my ability to see the things of God. When I was just getting to know Jesus, my spiritual eyes were open, but it was more like a squint.<\/p>\n<p>I am not saying that my eyes are completely wide open. I do believe, however, that as our faith grows, our eyes see things they were not able to see before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does my ability to see spiritually match the measurement of my faith? What am I doing to improve my eyesight and faith?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cThen he touched their eyes and said,\u00a0\u201cAccording to your faith let it be done to you\u201d; and their sight was restored.\u201d Matthew 9:27-31 Applying God\u2019s Word When I read this scripture, I think about how blessed I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=667\">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-667","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\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}