{"id":2498,"date":"2020-09-06T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T19:40:37","slug":"growth-through-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Growth through action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2494\">incremental growth<\/a>. Today, I saw one secret to experiencing that growth as illustrated in the woman with the internal bleeding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+8%3A43-48&amp;version=TPT\">Luke 8.43 &#8211; 48<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the key section:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In the crowd that day was a woman who had suffered greatly for twelve years from slow bleeding. Even though she had spent all that she had on healers, she was still suffering.\u00a0<sup>44\u00a0<\/sup>Pressing in through the crowd, she came up behind Jesus and touched the tassel<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+8%3A43-48&amp;version=TPT#fen-TPT-6702c\">c<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0of his prayer shawl. Instantly her bleeding stopped and she was healed. (Luke 8.43, 44, Passion Translation)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two things impressed me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First, she hadn&#8217;t given up. She&#8217;d had the disease for 12 years. She&#8217;d spent all she had on healers, meaning she kept trying. Finally, she decided to try &#8220;The Great Healer.&#8221;<\/li><li>Second, she took action. She didn&#8217;t sit by the side of the road to see if Jesus would notice her. She pressed in through the crowd. Faith isn&#8217;t passively waiting, it&#8217;s taking action.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. (James 2.17, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote about incremental growth. Today, I saw one secret to experiencing that growth as illustrated in the woman with the internal bleeding, Luke 8.43 &#8211; 48. Here&#8217;s the key section: In the crowd that day was a woman who had suffered greatly for twelve years from slow bleeding. Even though she had spent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Growth through action<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Ei","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}