{"id":2801,"date":"2012-01-05T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:55","slug":"the-perception-of-strength-in-our-storms3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2801","title":{"rendered":"The Perception Of Strength In Our Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Mark 6:48 and <strong><em>the person to behold in all our storms<\/em><\/strong>. Let us see from our text<strong><em> the perception of strength in our storms<\/em><\/strong>. How does our Lord build our spiritual strength in storms? Our text says He sent out a contrary wind which is\u00a0a head wind that impedes\u00a0forward progress.\u00a0He then\u00a0sits in the heavens and cries out\u00a0to us to press on and don&#8217;t give up. Why does He do\u00a0it like this? The head wind is to test our perseverance, what will it take to stop us? We are often stopped by the smallest things, but when we press on in the small things\u00a0He will build our strength for more intense storms that are to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Mark 6:48 and the person to behold in all our storms. Let us see from our text the perception of strength in our storms. How [&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-2801","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\/2801","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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}