{"id":126,"date":"2009-01-02T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:47","slug":"hopes-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Hope&#8217;s Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am again musing from home. We will be \u00a0home now for a couple of weeks. I want to look at the word hope for a few days. The word means <em>confident expectations<\/em>.\u00a0 It is not like our hope so think so word. In Psalm 38:15 it says, &#8220;For in thee O LORD, do I <em>hope:<\/em>\u00a0 thou wilt hear, O LORD my God&#8221;. It is \u00a0here we find the <em>place of hope<\/em> in the phrase &#8220;in\u00a0 thee&#8221;.\u00a0 There is also the<em> pressing of<\/em> <em>hope<\/em> in the words &#8221; O LORD and O LORD my God.&#8221; These are words of desperation in prayer. My hope is built on nothing less than our Lord. He is surely our <em>person of hope<\/em>. I also see in our text the <em>promise of hope<\/em> in the words &#8220;thou wilt hear.&#8221; Nothing gives us any greater confident expectation than to know he listens to our cries for help. What are your hopes for 2009? Tell them to HIM.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am again musing from home. We will be \u00a0home now for a couple of weeks. I want to look at the word hope for a few days. The word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}