{"id":2876,"date":"2012-02-03T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:54","slug":"jonahs-faithfull-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"Jonah&#8217;s Faithfull Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin to muse today\u00a0from Jonah chapter 2 and Jonah&#8217;s storm. We want to move from<strong><em> Jonah&#8217;s foolish disobedience and look at Jonah&#8217;s\u00a0faithful devotion<\/em><\/strong>. I see in verse one Jonah&#8217;s first\u00a0thought from the whale&#8217;s belly was <strong><em>to pray<\/em><\/strong>. Our text says in verse two\u00a0that he cried out of his affliction from the belly of hell. I thought it is interesting that Jonah feels as though he has\u00a0died and gone to hell.\u00a0Our study\u00a0tells us that God heard his prayer. We should always pray with the anticipation that if we pray and God hears our prayer we have the petition that we asked of Him. I wonder if we ever get desperate in prayer life\u00a0until we reach the bottom in our storm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin to muse today\u00a0from Jonah chapter 2 and Jonah&#8217;s storm. We want to move from Jonah&#8217;s foolish disobedience and look at Jonah&#8217;s\u00a0faithful devotion. I see in verse one [&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-2876","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\/2876","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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}