{"id":4908,"date":"2017-10-02T15:29:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T15:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:02","slug":"musing-through-matthew-the-presence-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4908","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-The Presence Of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Matthew 14:19\u00a0\u00a0and the\u00a0theme of <em><strong>Jesus the king.<\/strong><\/em>It\u00a0is in our verse for study today <strong><em>the presence of Jesus<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0I am amazed that\u00a0He had\u00a0command over 15,000 women and children. He told\u00a0them to sit\u00a0down and\u00a0His presence\u00a0awed them\u00a0into silent obedience. You would think they would say it was\u00a0no use to sit\u00a0down\u00a0can God spread a\u00a0table\u00a0in the wilderness.\u00a0Most would only give the poor some\u00a0bread but\u00a0our Lord gave them a banquet of bread and fish. He didn&#8217;t do it\u00a0without\u00a0inviting\u00a0 His Father to\u00a0touch what He was doing. What a great honor to be fed by the Son of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Matthew 14:19\u00a0\u00a0and the\u00a0theme of Jesus the king.It\u00a0is in our verse for study today the presence of Jesus.\u00a0I am amazed that\u00a0He had\u00a0command over 15,000 women and [&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-4908","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\/4908","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=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}