{"id":692,"date":"2019-01-31T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2019-01-31T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:58:05","slug":"penetrating-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPenetrating &#038; Challenging\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.\u201d Hebrews 4:12\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Applying God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Gideon\u2019s says that over five billion bibles have sold. One hundred million of them sell, every year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to think the bible was boring. Now I find it to be one of the most exciting reads for me. I stopped trying to understand it, long ago. I have learned to let God\u2019s word penetrate every aspect of my life like a double-edged sword. His words challenge my thinking and the attitudes of my heart like no other book I have ever read. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I try to encourage people to read scripture for enjoyment and its truth. \u201cFor everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.\u201d Romans 15:4  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> Am I allowing God to speak to me through His \u201cWORD\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cFor the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.\u201d Hebrews 4:12\u00a0 Applying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=692\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}