{"id":906,"date":"2021-05-22T21:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T21:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=906"},"modified":"2021-05-22T21:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T21:46:56","slug":"happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHappy Birthday\u201d!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen the day of Pentecost\u00a0came, they were all together\u00a0in one place.\u00a0<strong><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.\u201d Acts 2:1-2<\/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\">Today we celebrate Pentecost, which marks the end of the Easter season. Thankfully, it didn\u2019t mark the end of a season for the original apostles. Instead, it marked the birth of our church and the release of the Holy Spirit to all those who followed in the apostle\u2019s footsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was forty years old, I was introduced to the Holy Spirit and there\u2019s been no turning back. To describe that introduction to the Holy Spirit as powerful would be a huge understatement. It opened my eyes to prayer, God\u2019s word, and the application of His truth in all the areas of my life. It changed everything for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, God reminded me of a vision He gave me twenty years ago. It was a vision of the world covered by a wave of the Holy Spirit. I didn\u2019t think much of it then, but I do now. I see it as something that\u2019s inevitable.<\/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\">How am I celebrating the birthday of the church today? What are some of my experiences of the Holy Spirit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cWhen the day of Pentecost\u00a0came, they were all together\u00a0in one place.\u00a02\u00a0Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.\u201d Acts 2:1-2 Applying God\u2019s Word &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=906\">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-906","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\/906","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=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}