{"id":4114,"date":"2013-11-01T12:54:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:46","slug":"musing-through-matthew-effectual-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4114","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Effectual Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 4:20 in the theme <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text we see an <strong><em>effectual call<\/em> <\/strong>from the King to His subjects. The Bible says they straightway which is our word for immediately and without\u00a0thought followed Him. I see also from our text that\u00a0they were willing to leave their occupation and follow Him. This my friend is a powerful an effectual call. I blessed the day that I heard such a call that\u00a0changed the direction of my life as well as\u00a0the life of my wife, three sons, three daughter-in-laws, and now 15 grandchildren. Wow what I call. It has even now effected\u00a08 the 15 grandchildren\u00a0who now\u00a0profess to know Christ as there Saviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 4:20 in the theme Jesus the King. In our text we see an effectual call from the King to His subjects. The Bible [&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-4114","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\/4114","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=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}