{"id":1998,"date":"2011-03-14T11:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T11:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:35","slug":"jonahs-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"Jonah&#8217;s Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Jonah 1:5-6\u00a0and the subject of <strong><em>Jonah&#8217;s\u00a0sleeping<\/em><\/strong>. This\u00a0storm caused\u00a0those on board to be afraid. They all began to pray to their pagan gods. I think often of those on TV who are\u00a0news anchors will\u00a0often say you are in my prayers. I wonder if they may pray to the gods of their own\u00a0thinking. In verse five we find while the sailors were making supplication Jonah was asleep in the bottom of the ship. Is not this a picture of today&#8217;s church when the world around us is seeking we are in a state of apathy and nodding off. The shipmaster said wake up\u00a0O sleeper and call upon your God. Jonah&#8217;s God was Elohim the\u00a0creator and\u00a0the one who had\u00a0 sent the storm. <strong><em>I wonder if we are in the midst of maybe the fall of our\u00a0great nation\u00a0 America, could it be this day\u00a0we might hear the call awake O sleeper and call upon your God.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Jonah 1:5-6\u00a0and the subject of Jonah&#8217;s\u00a0sleeping. This\u00a0storm caused\u00a0those on board to be afraid. They all began to pray to their pagan gods. I think often [&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-1998","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\/1998","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=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5945,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}