{"id":56,"date":"2009-01-01T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/uncategorized\/the-winds-and-the-waves\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:58:00","slug":"winds-and-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/2009\/01\/winds-and-waves.html","title":{"rendered":"The winds and the waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I was on duty on Jan 1st we managed to go to church in the morning. The speaker was Freddy Joseph (I&#8217;ve already blogged about him a couple of times).<br \/>For the sermon he had chosen the story of Jesus calming the storm while his disciples were in the ship.<br \/>One of the highlights of his message was his thoughts on this verse<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The men were amazed and asked, &#8220;What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!&#8221;<\/span><br \/>He said, &#8221; You can see the waves but cannot see the wind. Both of these obeyed Jesus &#8211; Jesus had control over both these elements. Similarly in our lives Jesus has control over the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">seen <\/span>and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">unseen <\/span>problems in our life&#8221;<br \/>A very simple truth made so obvious.<br \/>I hope that you allow Jesus to take care of both seen and unseen problems in your life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freddyjoseph.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" >If you would like to know more about Freddy Joseph visit his website @ http:\/\/www.freddyjoseph.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I was on duty on Jan 1st we managed to go to church in the morning. The speaker was Freddy Joseph (I&#8217;ve already blogged about him a couple of times).For the sermon he had chosen the story of Jesus calming the storm while his disciples were in the ship.One of the highlights of his message was his thoughts on this verseThe men were amazed and asked, &#8220;What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!&#8221;He said, &#8221; You can see the waves but cannot see the wind. Both of these obeyed Jesus &#8211; Jesus had control over both these elements. Similarly in our lives Jesus has control over the seen and unseen problems in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21,4,8,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paWFfI-U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}