{"id":48,"date":"2008-03-23T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/hezekiah\/"},"modified":"2008-03-23T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T17:02:00","slug":"hezekiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/hezekiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezekiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Last week we met Hannah, a woman who was desperate for a child. A woman who, in some senses, was a symbol of the fruitless life that the people of God were living. A woman who came to the place of worship, poured out her distress to God, and received the promise of God with faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">We left Hannah as she departed the temple, trusting God for a son that she had earnestly prayed for. That son, Samuel, was born, and dedicated to the service of the Lord. That son was a prophet of God. Through him God answered the cry of the people for a King, and after the first King, Saul, came David, the touchstone example for all Kings of the people of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">David died, and Solomon came to reign, building a temple for God in Jerusalem, a focus of worship for the nation. The nation seemed set on the road to greatness, but&#8230;.<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/Doc?id=dc9cg5ww_60c49ftgj7\"><br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Continued here&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we met Hannah, a woman who was desperate for a child. A woman who, in some senses, was a symbol of the fruitless life that the people of God were living. A woman who came to the place of worship, poured out her distress to God, and received the promise of God with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[101,75,100,102,71],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-littleover","tag-2-kings-201-11","tag-faith","tag-healing","tag-luke-1835-43","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}