{"id":1084,"date":"2009-07-22T06:54:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2009-07-22T06:54:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T14:54:41","slug":"little-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/little-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:150px; padding:10px; background-color:#003300; float:right; font-weight:bold; color:#339933\">Reading:<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Matthew 8:23-27<\/font>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not, &#8220;No faith&#8221; &#8212; <b>little<\/b> faith. (Those fellows <i>did<\/i> have something going for them, see?)<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (25).<\/p>\n<p>They had sufficient faith to go to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>They had sufficient faith to awake Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>They had sufficient faith to petition Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>But their faith was still little: <b><font color=brown>We perish.<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Lord, increase <b>my<\/b> faith!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way: notice two other things in this passage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <b><font color=brown>&#8220;His disciples followed him&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (23).<\/li>\n<li> <b><font color=brown>&#8220;And his disciples came to him&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (25).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>It&#8217;s what disciples do!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/disciplesfollowed-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/disciplesfollowed-s.jpg\" alt=\"[The Scriptures say in Matthew 8:23 -- His disciples followed him]\" title=\"God's Word says: His disciples followed him (Matthew 8:23)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Matthew 8:23<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Matthew 8:23-27 Not, &#8220;No faith&#8221; &#8212; little faith. (Those fellows did have something going for them, see?) &#8220;And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish&#8221; (25). They had sufficient faith to go to Jesus. They had sufficient faith to awake Jesus. They had sufficient faith to petition [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[51,41,48,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-1084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-matthew","7":"tag-discipleship","8":"tag-faith","9":"tag-hang-in-there","10":"tag-peace","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-hu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}