{"id":914,"date":"2021-06-26T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=914"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:30:49","slug":"the-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Five\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeing confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion\u00a0until the day of Christ Jesus.\u201d Philippians 1:6<\/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\">Over the years, God has introduced me to some incredible young men and women. I remember Him introducing me to five men that attended the same church. They were all single, excited about the future and uniquely gifted. Little did I know that God would turn those initial encounters into lifelong friendships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their enthusiasm for life was infectious back then and it still is. Michael, Randy, John, Roland, and Paul signed up to be soldiers in Jesus army, without really knowing much about the enemies they would face. That is something we all learn about as we charge into battle spreading and defending God\u2019s truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five and I have been friends now for thirty years. Although, we have all fought the enemy on different fronts, we\u2019ve been encouraged by each other\u2019s support, knowing that the other five are still in it to win it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m so proud of these five men and confident that \u201cHe who began a good work\u201d in them \u201cWill carry it on to completion&nbsp;until the day of Christ Jesus.\u201d<\/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 still in it to win it for Jesus? Is the thing that God began in me still at work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cBeing confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion\u00a0until the day of Christ Jesus.\u201d Philippians 1:6 Applying God\u2019s Word Over the years, God has introduced me to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=914\">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":[37,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible","category-philippians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}