{"id":905,"date":"2021-05-15T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2021-05-15T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T18:59:13","slug":"garbage-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGarbage Night\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe following night the Lord stood near Paul and said,\u00a0\u201cTake courage!\u00a0As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.\u201d Acts 23:11<\/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\">We will never run out of opportunities to share Jesus with someone else. We may not be in Jerusalem or Rome, but the Holy Spirit will use us right where we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was garbage night and I was late in getting my containers out to the curb. My neighbor was doing the same thing. She waived, came across the street and immediately shared her discouragement over her recent medical issues. An anointing surrounded me as I said, \u201cI\u2019m going to pray for you.\u201d She said, \u201cOh no. That\u2019s okay. I\u2019m fine.\u201d I said, \u201cGod just told me to pray for you.\u201d That\u2019s when she closed her eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a holy moment for both of us. She opened her eyes and said, \u201cI didn\u2019t realize how much I needed that prayer. Thank you.\u201d I smiled. I was late with the garbage cans, but right on time for God\u2019s work.&nbsp;<\/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\">Are my eyes open for brief encounters of the very best kind? Am I missing opportunities to let God use me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cThe following night the Lord stood near Paul and said,\u00a0\u201cTake courage!\u00a0As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.\u201d Acts 23:11 Applying God\u2019s Word We will never run out of opportunities &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=905\">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-905","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\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}