{"id":4347,"date":"2014-05-09T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:42","slug":"musing-through-matthew-beginning-the-work-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4347","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Beginning The Work Of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from Matthew 8:1 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In this section we see Him <strong><em>beginning the work of His power<\/em><\/strong>. We are told that He came off the mountain to find a great multitude following Him. He was never impressed by a great following He knew how fickle people are. Let us as the people of God and the preachers of God not be impressed with a crowd. Remember the same crowd that said glorify the King a few days later said crucify him. He came down with one purpose that was to lift up the multitude by a display of His power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from Matthew 8:1 and the theme of Jesus the King. In this section we see Him beginning the work of His power. We are [&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-4347","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\/4347","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=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}