{"id":4982,"date":"2018-09-03T16:41:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T16:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","slug":"musing-through-matthew-not-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4982","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-Not A Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:23 and the\u00a0theme of<strong><em> Jesus the king.<\/em><\/strong> In our text for today we are confronted with a lesson on <strong><em>not a word<\/em><\/strong>. What a discouraging thing to come to Jesus for help and\u00a0receive from\u00a0Him not a word. What do you do on\u00a0such an occasion? She persisted. The disciples said she cried after us, send her away. They were all wrong she was not crying after them but\u00a0only Him. Let us rejoice when seekers for Jesus come.\u00a0Let&#8217;s not turn them away by harsh words or actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:23 and the\u00a0theme of Jesus the king. In our text for today we are confronted with a lesson on not a word. What [&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-4982","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\/4982","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=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}