{"id":1445,"date":"2010-01-16T12:39:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T12:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:55","slug":"focus-on-the-perfecting-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Focus On The Perfecting Of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse again today from James 1:4 and our Encounter With Trials on the road to God&#8217;s Blessings. I want to lay before us today the need for our <em>Focus Of The Perfecting Of Our Faith<\/em>. In verse 4 we find that our trials <em>&#8216;worketh patience&#8217;<\/em> in us. The phrase deals with perseverance\u00a0and the ability to lift it and walk on. Let us not resist light afflictions. It may be God&#8217;s weight lifting program preparing us for heavier things. Trials let\u00a0us see what\u00a0is eternal versus what is temporal. Let me see, that God through trials, is perfecting me. \u00a0If I am whining about sinus headaches what will I do with brain cancer. The songwriter said, &#8216;I need thee every hour&#8217; which is certainly a worthy goal to have. I am more in need of the song &#8216;Moment by moment I am kept in your love.&#8217; Lord, stay near by during your perfecting work. Don&#8217;t leave me for a moment lest I fall into temptation. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from James 1:4 and our Encounter With Trials on the road to God&#8217;s Blessings. I want to lay before us today the need for our [&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-1445","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\/1445","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=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6280,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}