{"id":43841,"date":"2018-12-03T00:15:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T03:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43841"},"modified":"2018-12-03T02:43:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T05:43:54","slug":"god-leads-former-nfl-player-to-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/03\/god-leads-former-nfl-player-to-us-army\/","title":{"rendered":"God Leads Former NFL Player to US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Army SSgt John Williams Jr played for the Baltimore Ravens in 1997 and played for other teams until 2005. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/297473\/former-nfl-player-contributes-military-success-god-family-army\">After that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLate one night I was praying and asked God for guidance on what I should do next,\u201d said Williams.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that after that prayer, he coincidently found and Army kevlar [helmet] with the initial W inside of it, and it felt like a sign from God to join the Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s one way to do it. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One thing left unsaid is why Williams enlisted. Having played football as a senior in college, he presumably has a degree, which would make him eligible to attend training to be an officer.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, he has a good answer when people ask him why he joined the Army.<\/p>\n<p>Because God told him to.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army SSgt John Williams Jr played for the Baltimore Ravens in 1997 and played for other teams until 2005. After that: \u201cLate one night I was praying and asked God for guidance on what I should do next,\u201d said Williams. He stated that after that prayer, he coincidently found and Army kevlar [helmet] with the initial W inside of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,6646,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-43841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-john-williams","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43928,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43841\/revisions\/43928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}