{"id":878,"date":"2021-01-21T19:09:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:09:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:09:01","slug":"ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ask&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut the fruit\u00a0of the Holy Spirit is love,\u00a0joy, peace,\u00a0forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,\u00a0gentleness and self-control.\u201d Galatians 5:22-23<\/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\">After allowing God\u2019s forgiveness and love to penetrate my entire being, some men prayed over me for the release of God\u2019s Holy Spirit. I didn\u2019t even know it was available to me. And no, I didn\u2019t levitate, speak in tongues or break into holy laughter. I did experience the incredible power of God\u2019s presence, though. That alone, inspired my lasting intimate friendship with Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years, my faith in God has grown by meeting with Him and meditating on His \u201cWord\/Truth\u201d. The fruit of that process has been more of \u201cGod\u2019s Love\u201d. If His love is not evident when God is using me, I know that I am probably not operating under the power of His Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can we receive more of God\u2019s Holy Spirit? We can do that by asking and by answering three questions. 1) Do I reject Satan and all sin? 2) Do I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior? 3) Do I want God to release in me the full power of His Holy Spirit? Ask and answer from your heart!<\/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\">Am I prepared for the Holy Spirit to pour out His spiritual gifts in and through me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cBut the fruit\u00a0of the Holy Spirit is love,\u00a0joy, peace,\u00a0forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,\u00a0gentleness and self-control.\u201d Galatians 5:22-23 Applying God\u2019s Word After allowing God\u2019s forgiveness and love to penetrate my entire being, some men prayed over me for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=878\">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-878","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\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}