{"id":1976,"date":"2011-03-05T11:58:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T11:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:36","slug":"the-ministry-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"The Ministry Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Jonah 1:2 and <strong><em>the ministry of Jonah&#8217;s preparation<\/em><\/strong>. God is going to give Jonah the ministry of reconciliation. He is told to preach to\u00a0this Gentile nation that judgment is coming. He refuses to go. Jonah is not a spineless man he has a very strong opinion that\u00a0this Gentile nation deserves hell and not heaven. Let us be assured\u00a0 God can use an impetuous\u00a0Peter\u00a0 , a crafty Jacob, and a headstrong Jonah. In order to use them He\u00a0must change them that\u00a0they may see when they are weak\u00a0then are they strong. Peter will learn in a sifter,Jacob will\u00a0learn in an all night wrestling match with the Angel of the Lord, and for Jonah he will learn it in the whale&#8217;s belly. It seems man only learns spiritual things but\u00a0by the hard\u00a0way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Jonah 1:2 and the ministry of Jonah&#8217;s preparation. God is going to give Jonah the ministry of reconciliation. He is told to preach to\u00a0this [&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-1976","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\/1976","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=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5952,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}