{"id":937,"date":"2021-09-24T23:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2021-09-24T23:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T23:18:23","slug":"unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unplugged&#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 you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere &#8211; in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.\u201d Acts 1:8<\/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\">For the first forty years of my life, I believed in God and went to church almost every Sunday. I didn\u2019t know Jesus or the Holy Spirit. I didn\u2019t know what it meant to be a witness. How could I? I was unplugged. It wasn\u2019t until I gave God permission to release His Holy Spirit in me that I really felt plugged in and empowered to pray differently, understand scripture, and tell others about Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love praying with others and encouraging others to have a closer walk with Jesus, but that\u2019s not what it means to be a witness. I am a witness to others when I am living and loving the way Jesus does. I don\u2019t do that perfectly, but I\u2019m doing it a lot better these days than I did thirty-five years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People are not impressed with how holy we act or how much we are doing in the name of Jesus. They are moved to have a closer walk with Jesus because of the way we are living. They know by our actions if we are really plugged in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have I given God permission to empower me with His Holy Spirit? Does my life resemble the life of Jesus at all? How plugged in am I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cBut you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere &#8211; in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=937\">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-937","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\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}