{"id":1605,"date":"2010-09-04T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T11:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","slug":"the-power-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1605","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from Colossians 4:2-9 and<em><strong>\u00a0the power of words<\/strong><\/em>. Words are so powerful, because James said, the tongue is a powerful organ. The Old Testament said let the words of my mouth be acceptable unto thee O\u00a0Lord. The Old Testament also said, set a guard over\u00a0my lips and keep\u00a0the door of my mouth. In a few words a judge can give a person\u00a0 liberty or take their life. In a few words\u00a0a Doctor can\u00a0give hope or remove all hope. Let us\u00a0be swift to hear\u00a0and slow to speak. The tongue can direct, destroy, or delight, use it wisely because\u00a0talk is not cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from Colossians 4:2-9 and\u00a0the power of words. Words are so powerful, because James said, the tongue is a powerful organ. The Old Testament said [&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-1605","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\/1605","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=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6110,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/6110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}