{"id":1505,"date":"2010-04-10T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T12:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:50","slug":"the-omnipotence-of-decreasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"The Omnipotence Of Decreasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from I Samuel 24:5-6 and the <em>Omnipotence Of Decreasing<\/em>. We find in verse 5 <em>&#8216;The Omnipotence Of Sensitivity&#8217;<\/em>. When David cut off the bottom of Saul&#8217;s robe his heart was struck by the Holy Ghost. The word &#8216;strike&#8217; means to hit a death-blow to self. There must be a death to self if we are to decrease and take the high road of forgiveness. There was once a man in church who continually prayed the phrase, &#8216;O Lord, remove the cobwebs of sin from my life&#8217;. It became a phrase that he said in vain repetition. On one occasion when he said it a young lady cried out, &#8216;Don&#8217;t do it Lord. Kill the spider.&#8217; We want only the cobwebs of sin dealt with in our lives but God wants to kill the spider of self. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from I Samuel 24:5-6 and the Omnipotence Of Decreasing. We find in verse 5 &#8216;The Omnipotence Of Sensitivity&#8217;. When David cut off the bottom of Saul&#8217;s [&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-1505","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\/1505","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=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}