{"id":5689,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-timely-gift\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:23","slug":"a-timely-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-timely-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"A\n  TIMELY GIFT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Dependence on God; God\u2019s Faithfulness; Needs; Providence; Provision; Trust<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Genesis 22:14; Isaiah 61:1\u20134; Matthew 8:23\u201327; 17:27; Mark 4:35\u201341; Luke 8:22\u201325<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>On a recent service trip to the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged coast of Mississippi, we worked at a home that was owned by a retired United Methodist pastor. Rev. Jones said he and his wife had left their home before Katrina struck and gone to a shelter. After the storm passed, they were allowed back into the city to grab a few belongings. When they entered their house, the water was still knee-high, but Jones was determined to see what he could salvage.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Jones saw several framed family photos floating in the water. He didn\u2019t see anything else to save, so he grabbed the pictures and left. Back at the shelter, he took the photos out of their frames so they could dry out. When he removed his father\u2019s picture, money fell out of the frame. He was astonished to count out $366. Even more astounding was that his father had died in 1942, when Jones himself was only twelve years old. He had no idea the money was in the frame.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The money was precisely what he and his wife needed to go to Atlanta after the storm to live with their daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Douglas Heiman, Evansville, Indiana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Dependence on God; God\u2019s Faithfulness; Needs; Providence; Provision; Trust References: Genesis 22:14; Isaiah 61:1\u20134; Matthew 8:23\u201327; 17:27; Mark 4:35\u201341; Luke 8:22\u201325 On a recent service trip to the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged coast of Mississippi, we worked at a home that was owned by a retired United Methodist pastor. Rev. Jones said he and his wife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/a-timely-gift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A<br \/>\n  TIMELY GIFT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}