{"id":669,"date":"2018-12-16T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2018-12-16T03:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T03:27:00","slug":"luke-27-a-little-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Luke 2:7  &#8211; \u201cA Little Room\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.\u201d Luke 2:7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scripture has a way of tugging at my heart. One of my first mentors said, \u201cJack. We do not read the scriptures. The scriptures read us.\u201d True!<\/p>\n<p>When I see words like, <strong>There Was No Room<\/strong>, I contemplate what that means to me personally and apply it to my own life.<\/p>\n<p>God asked me multiple times to make room for Him in my life. I rejected Him and any thought of that ever happening. All the rooms in my life were already occupied with being more popular, succeeding in business, making lots of money, buying expensive things and living an extravagant lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>God never stopped knocking on the door of my heart, though. I did not make much room for Him when I finally invited Him into my life. Over time, though, He has replaced the occupants I once thought to be so important. ;&gt;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChallenge\u201d Can I find just a little more <strong>Room<\/strong> in my life this Christmas for Jesus?\u00a0 He will take whatever He can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cShe wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.\u201d Luke 2:7 Applying God\u2019s Word Scripture has a way of tugging at my heart. One of my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=669\">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-669","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\/669","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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}