{"id":3856,"date":"2013-08-08T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:50","slug":"musing-thru-matthew-meditations-by-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3856","title":{"rendered":"Musing Thru Matthew- Meditations By Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Matthew 1:20 and the theme of Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. Today I want to look at verse 20 and the meditations by Joseph<\/em><\/strong>. The Bible said while he\u00a0thought on these thing. The word\u00a0thought speaks of meditation and I feel confident it was being done in the presence of God. While musing God sends an angel to speak to him by way of a dream. This was a customary way of speaking by God in these\u00a0days but not us\u00a0for we have His word. The angel addressed him as a\u00a0son of David which tells us he is the part of the royal line. The angel assures him Mary has done no sin but has been favored by God.\u00a0Oh how all\u00a0our deepest problems can be solved while meditating, praying, and reading God’s word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Matthew 1:20 and the theme of Jesus the King. Today I want to look at verse 20 and the meditations by Joseph. The Bible said […]<\/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-3856","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\/3856","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=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5397,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}