{"id":1516,"date":"2010-04-29T11:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T11:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:50","slug":"pauls-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"Paul&#8217;s Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Colossians 1:9 where Paul again prays and <em>voices his desire<\/em> for the church to the Lord. The prayer covers verses 9-14. The central theme of the prayer is in verse 11 where Paul speaks of the <em>glorious power of God<\/em>. The word &#8216;power&#8217; speaks of an inherent power placed there by God. It is a power that leads to an implosion within that causes an explosion without. In verse 9 the word &#8216;desire&#8217; means to crave. Paul begs and craves that this church\u00a0would be filled with the <em>knowledge of His will<\/em>. The word &#8216;will&#8217; means the wishes, desires, or wants that God has purposed through His decrees. The word &#8216;knowledge&#8217; is a full or exact knowing that penetrates and gets a grasp on an object. Oh, to know God&#8217; s will fully will certainly cause an implosion of His power within us. It will not just be any kind of power, but a glorious power. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Colossians 1:9 where Paul again prays and voices his desire for the church to the Lord. The prayer covers verses 9-14. The central theme of [&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-1516","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\/1516","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=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6204,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/6204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}