{"id":1429,"date":"2009-12-27T12:11:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T12:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:56","slug":"the-book-of-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"The Book Of James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I would like to muse from the book of James and Chapter 1 for the next few weeks. I want to take as our theme, <em>&#8216;God&#8217;s Blueprint For Blessings&#8217;<\/em>. There is much said in Chapter 1 about the blessings of God. In verse 4 He speaks of &#8216;wanting nothing&#8217;. In verse 5 He is seen as &#8216;the God who gives&#8217;. In verses 12, 17, &amp; 25 we find that He is a &#8216;God of blessings&#8217;. In James, Chapter 1, we will find that in order to know God&#8217;s blessings there must be an encounter with 5 things. In verses 17-18 there must be an encounter with &#8216;<em>Theology<\/em>&#8216;, verses 1-4 an encounter with &#8216;<em>Trials<\/em>&#8216;, verses 20-25 an encounter with &#8216;<em>Truth<\/em>&#8216;, verses 12-16 an encounter with <em>&#8216;Temptation&#8217;<\/em>, and lastly in verses 19-21 &#8216;An Evidence of our <em>Testimony&#8217;<\/em>. Join us tomorrow as we look at an Encounter with Theology. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to muse from the book of James and Chapter 1 for the next few weeks. I want to take as our theme, &#8216;God&#8217;s Blueprint For Blessings&#8217;. There [&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-1429","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\/1429","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=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}