{"id":3858,"date":"2013-08-09T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T11:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:50","slug":"musing-through-matthew-mary-assured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3858","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Mary Assured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Matthew 1:20\u00a0and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King.<\/em><\/strong> I find in our text that\u00a0the message to Joseph was an <strong><em>assurance to Mary.<\/em><\/strong> How Mary&#8217;s faith must have been tested during this time. Many must have\u00a0said\u00a0 sure you&#8217;re carrying a baby and have never known a man, no way. Let us be assured that if Christ is birthed with in us through the\u00a0new birth\u00a0great trouble and testing will accompany that birth. I am confident through experience that the Lord will give witness to the fact He lives within us and\u00a0will surely bear us up, over, and through any test that may come because of this birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Matthew 1:20\u00a0and the theme of Jesus the King. I find in our text that\u00a0the message to Joseph was an assurance to Mary. How Mary&#8217;s faith [&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-3858","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\/3858","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=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}