{"id":2852,"date":"2012-01-23T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T13:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:54","slug":"the-persuasion-is-birthed-in-all-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"The Persuasion Is Birthed In All Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to\u00a0muse on the sixth and final storm\u00a0in our studies of<strong><em> sailing over life&#8217;s stormy sea.<\/em><\/strong> Today we will begin to look at Jonah&#8217;s storm where we find <strong><em>the persuasion is\u00a0birthed in all storms.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Years ago my wife and I were in\u00a0a service\u00a0where a lady who\u00a0was about to sing testified and said God was a gentleman and\u00a0would not make you do anything you&#8217;re not willing to do. I leaned over to my wife and asked her if Jonah thought God was a gentleman. God always uses\u00a0storms as\u00a0a source of leverage to persuade us\u00a0and if\u00a0the truth be known we would not do anything that He does not make us\u00a0willing to do. Spurgeon said God never saves a man apart from his will but he must make him willing if he is ever to be saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to\u00a0muse on the sixth and final storm\u00a0in our studies of sailing over life&#8217;s stormy sea. Today we will begin to look at Jonah&#8217;s storm where we [&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-2852","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\/2852","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=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5700,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/5700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}