{"id":42,"date":"2009-05-21T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/2009\/05\/21\/aptat\/"},"modified":"2013-02-20T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:17:43","slug":"aptat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/2009\/05\/21\/aptat\/","title":{"rendered":"APTAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following an explanation of John Piper&#8217;s acronymn APTAT. The excerpt is from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/TasteAndSee\/ByDate\/1983\/3016_Dana_Doug_and_an_APTAT_Recap\/\" target=\"_DesiringGod\">article<\/a> at Desiring God.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">A<\/span> &#8211; I acknowledge that without Christ I can do nothing (John 15:5; Romans 7:18).<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">P<\/span> &#8211; I pray that God would make me love as Jesus loves, and work in me all that is pleasing to him (1 Thessalonians 2:12; Romans 5:21; Hebrews 13:21).<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">T<\/span> &#8211; I trust the promise of God\u2019s help and strength and guidance (Isaiah 41:10; James 1:5-6).<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">A<\/span> &#8211; I act in obedience to God\u2019s word. Doug Heil asked me last Sunday if Philippians 2:12 fit my acronym: \u201cWork out your own salvation with fear and trembling\u201d? I said yes, because look at the ground clause which follows: \u201cfor it is God who works in you to will and to do his good pleasure.\u201d Yes! Yes! We act. We obey! But what keeps this action from being a \u201cwork of law\u201d is that we have acknowledged our helplessness, prayed for enablement, and trusted that precisely in and under our working and willing it is God who does the work! Therefore our act is a fruit of the Spirit not a work of the flesh.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">T<\/span> &#8211; I thank God for whatever good comes. I give him the glory (1 Peter 4:11). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an explanation of John Piper&#8217;s acronymn APTAT. The excerpt is from an article at Desiring God. A &#8211; I acknowledge that without Christ I can do nothing (John 15:5; Romans 7:18). P &#8211; I pray that God would make me love as Jesus loves, and work in me all that is pleasing to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[103,105],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-prayer","tag-living","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}