{"id":867,"date":"2020-12-05T23:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2020-12-05T23:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T23:05:39","slug":"a-thousand-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Thousand Times\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow this is eternal life: that they know you,\u00a0the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.\u201d John 17:3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Monday, I will turn seventy-four. It\u2019s hard not to think about my own mortality and\/or what heaven will be like. I find it exciting to think about seeing the face of God and meeting Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years, though, I have seen God, met Jesus and experienced heaven numerous times, through all of you and so many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Documenting the numerous encounters has become so life giving to me. Every holy moment is special, because it\u2019s evidence that God\u2019s presence is manifest in each situation and relived again when He has had me type the weekly Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This month marks twenty years that God has empowered me share the \u201cChallenge\u201d. God has shown up over 1,000 times with a scripture and a story for me to share. He\u2019s never missed a week and neither have I. It blows my mind, because it could only happen by His grace and power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What now? I\u2019m not sure. I sense that He wants to keep using me, possibly by way of a different venue\/format. We\u2019ll see. Please pray for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have I experienced heaven and the presence of God and Jesus in this life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cNow this is eternal life: that they know you,\u00a0the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.\u201d John 17:3 Applying God\u2019s Word This Monday, I will turn seventy-four. It\u2019s hard not to think about my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=867\">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-867","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\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}