{"id":780,"date":"2020-01-18T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2020-01-18T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T20:03:10","slug":"close-open-and-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"\u201cClose, Open and Point\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.\u201d Isaiah 53:5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Applying God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, to find a scripture for the weekly \u201cChallenge\u201d, I close my eyes, open my Bible and point. That\u2019s how I found the above scripture this week. :>) Try it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Old Testament scripture, from Isaiah\u2019s prophetic vision, describes Jesus laying down His life for us.  It\u2019s kind of mind blowing, when we think about the fact that Isaiah lived 700 years prior to Jesus\u2019 birth.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Old Testament is filled with prophecies that have already come true. It makes me believe those prophecies that haven\u2019t been fulfilled, still will be. <\/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 only believe that parts of the written word are true or that all of it is true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cBut he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.\u201d Isaiah 53:5 Applying God\u2019s Word Sometimes, to find &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=780\">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":[37,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible","category-books-of-the-bible-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}