{"id":1615,"date":"2010-09-18T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","slug":"enlighten-by-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"Enlighten By The Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Colossians 4: 6b\u00a0and the thought\u00a0of <em><strong>enlighten by the Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/em>. The phrase,<em><strong> that you may know how you ought to answer every man<\/strong><\/em> is a classic statement. We meet people daily that need answers from above. We must have those answers and be willing to turn the conversation in that direction. Let us not be like the man who was asked, what do you believe about God? He said, I believe the same thing my church does. He was asked, what does your church belief? He said, well they believe what I believe. He was then asked, what do you both believe? He said, to be sure we both believe the same.\u00a0Oh, how this\u00a0should drive us to <em><strong>study, read, and meditate on the word of God<\/strong><\/em>, that we may be ready to give an account of the hope\u00a0that lies within us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Colossians 4: 6b\u00a0and the thought\u00a0of enlighten by the Holy Spirit. The phrase, that you may know how you ought to answer every man is a classic [&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-1615","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\/1615","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=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6100,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/6100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}