{"id":996,"date":"2022-05-28T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2022-05-28T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T21:02:09","slug":"all-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAll Together\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"absorbing-god-word\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen they arrived, they went upstairs to the room&nbsp;where they were staying. They all joined together constantly in prayer,&nbsp;along with the women&nbsp;and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.\u201d Acts 1:13-14<\/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>During the forty days after Jesus\u2019 death, it was His multiple appearances that convinced the apostles He was who He said He was. They were so certain, that they returned to the upper room to pray and wait for Pentecost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all churches celebrate Pentecost. Maybe because they considered it too ritualistic. Our church celebrates the forty days prior to Christ\u2019s ascension and the ten additional days prior to Pentecost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louise and I pray daily, but especially during the days prior to Pentecost. We want to relive the excitement and anticipation of Pentecost. It\u2019s a perfect time to renew our yes to God and our commitment to share Him with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us this week in continuous prayer as we ask our Lord for an abundance of His Holy Spirit. The world has never needed an outpouring of the Holy Spirit more than now.<\/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>Do I dedicate time each day to spend with God? Am I praying and waiting for Pentecost?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cWhen they arrived, they went upstairs to the room&nbsp;where they were staying. They all joined together constantly in prayer,&nbsp;along with the women&nbsp;and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.\u201d Acts 1:13-14 Applying God\u2019s Word During &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=996\">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-996","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\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}