{"id":939,"date":"2021-10-01T01:53:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T01:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2021-10-01T01:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T01:53:03","slug":"whats-it-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat\u2019s It Take\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.\u201d Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve promised my love and devotion twice, once to my late wife Joanne 5\/23\/1970 and again when I married Louise 10\/3\/2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my eyes, these two incredible women have fulfilled the above scripture. Both have been there to catch me when I\u2019ve fallen. I have also had multiple opportunities to be there for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes a young couple will ask what it takes to be happily married and I tell them it\u2019s a four-letter word. They say, \u201cYou mean LOVE.\u201d I reply, \u201cNo. WORK.\u201d It takes work to keep a married couple\u2019s love alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louise and I will celebrate our sixth wedding anniversary this weekend. We would like you all to celebrate with us by watching the attached eleven-minute video titled \u201cTwo Shall Become One\u201d by Allen Hunt. It\u2019s an ordinary story of extraordinary love. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two Shall Become One\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OlT0sVA605c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Who do I know that may want\/need to see this video besides me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cTwo are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.\u201d Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10 Applying God\u2019s Word I\u2019ve promised my love and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=939\">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-939","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\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}