{"id":4984,"date":"2018-10-16T16:59:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T16:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","slug":"musing-through-matthew-lost-sheep-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4984","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew-&#8220;Lost Sheep Only&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:24 and the them of <strong><em>\u00a0Jesus the king.<\/em> <\/strong>When our Lord\u00a0 ends\u00a0His silence\u00a0 to this lady He speaks directly to His disciples when He\u00a0said I have come to the\u00a0lost sheep\u00a0of the house of Israel. He is stating a fact that He is come to minister only to the lost sheep,<strong><em> lost sheep only.<\/em> <\/strong>She knows that she is not one of His sheep, most would have left with nothing, but not her. She doubles\u00a0down on her pleading her case,\u00a0she refuses to be denied. Let us learn some lessons about perseverance in prayer from\u00a0this great story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:24 and the them of \u00a0Jesus the king. When our Lord\u00a0 ends\u00a0His silence\u00a0 to this lady He speaks directly to His disciples when [&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-4984","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\/4984","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=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5007,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}