{"id":6356,"date":"2018-06-25T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2018-06-25T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:09:33","slug":"teach-me-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/teach-me-to-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"TEACH ME TO PRAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Philippians 1:9-10<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,\u00a0that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ<\/em><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of my favorite stories of simple, child-like prayer, is the story that was told about the prayer\u00a0of a small boy who knelt beside his bed.\u00a0 He had evidently heard the adults praying for all of the missionaries in the foreign fields.\u00a0 That word, &#8220;foreign&#8221; was a little &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; foreign to him.\u00a0 Here was his honest prayer:\u00a0 &#8220;Lord, please bless and protect all of the missionaries in the corn fields.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someone commented that his prayer was sharper than the adults.\u00a0 If there happened to be some missionaries walking through a corn field at that moment, they had been prayed for!<\/p>\n<p>So, what are we to do with prayer?\u00a0\u00a0 The disciples of Jesus were confused, and asked Him to give them instruction on how to pray.\u00a0 He gave them what has come to be known as, &#8220;The Lord&#8217;s Prayer,&#8221; but should more accurately be termed, &#8220;The Disciple&#8217;s Prayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul is sharing at the beginning of his letter to the church at Philippi, the manner in which he was praying for them.\u00a0 I find this very interesting as well as instructive.\u00a0 We would do well to examine his pattern to effective prayers.<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippians 1:9-10 \u201cAnd this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,\u00a0that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ.\u201d One of my favorite stories of simple, child-like prayer, is the story that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}