{"id":4828,"date":"2017-03-03T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:04","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-mustard-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4828","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- The Mustard Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:31-32 and the theme of<strong><em> Jesus the king.<\/em><\/strong> Our study for today we find <strong><em>the parable of the mustard seed.<\/em> <\/strong>It is the smallest of all the seeds\u00a0\u00a0by the world&#8217;s standard. The world would see this seed as too small an unimportant. A man&#8217;s seed\u00a01\/200th of centimeter. God in the person of Christ housed\u00a0Himself in 1\/200th of a centimeter and was placed in a virgin&#8217;s womb. It is so for the one who experiences the new birth, Christ is birth inside of us and by the world standard is small an unimportant. He will grow inside of us into a mighty tree so says the parable\u00a0and others can come to\u00a0find shelter and help by this mighty tree. Lord we have seen enough mustard seed, speed up the growth\u00a0of the seed that we might see\u00a0more mighty trees in these last hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 13:31-32 and the theme of Jesus the king. Our study for today we find the parable of the mustard seed. It is the [&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-4828","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\/4828","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=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}