{"id":993,"date":"2022-05-14T21:09:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T21:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2022-05-14T21:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T21:09:49","slug":"direct-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDirect Connection\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"absorbing-god-word\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>\u201c<\/sup>May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace\u00a0as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.\u201d Romans 15:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"applying-god-s-word\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to the Holy Spirit in my life, unique happenings, visions, and mental suggestions were, to my mind, just coincidences. Now, I recognize those things as God-incidences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the longest time, I struggled to believe that God would ever use me like He did Jesus and the disciples. God not only wants that from me He expects it. We can all have a direct connection with God. Jesus\u2019 life, death and resurrection made it possible for each of us to be empowered by His Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am getting messages and instruction from God through the Holy Spirit continuously. We all are. I can\u2019t count the times I\u2019ve ignored or missed the prompting of God\u2019s Holy Spirit. It\u2019s one thing to hear the Holy Spirit and another to put into action what we hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"accounting-of-god-s-word\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do I trust the Holy Spirit and put into action what I hear Him asking of me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cMay the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace\u00a0as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.\u201d Romans 15:13 Applying God\u2019s Word Prior to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=993\">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-993","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\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}