{"id":747,"date":"2019-08-24T21:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2019-08-24T21:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T21:15:37","slug":"in-gods-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIn God\u2019s Time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd the second commandment is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d  Matthew 22:39<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Applying God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago, I realized it is much easier to go to God about a person than it is to go to the person about God. When we intercede, in love, God finds the right time to capture their heart. I pray for my neighbors.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my neighbors and I had talked about our faith before, but on a recent occasion it was different. My neighbor decided to trust me with some past intimate hurts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time our talk ended with me praying with and for my neighbor. He was searching for answers and the kind of healing that only God could provide. We prayed that God would bless him with both.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loving our neighbors as ourselves is not that difficult, when it\u2019s done with tenderness and patience. God does all the work and He does it in His time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do I love my neighbors as myself? Do I love them enough to share Jesus with them?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cAnd the second commandment is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d Matthew 22:39 Applying God\u2019s Word Years ago, I realized it is much easier to go to God about a person than it is to go &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=747\">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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}