{"id":920,"date":"2009-12-14T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=920"},"modified":"2009-12-14T09:51:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T16:51:46","slug":"how-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/how-to-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO PRAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colossians 1:9<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems that God\u2019s children have always had a question of how to pray. Jesus\u2019 disciples asked Him how to pray, even though they had been in His presence and had heard many of His prayers personally. So how are we to pray\u2014above and beyond the Prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray\u2014what we have come to know as the Lord\u2019s Prayer?<\/p>\n

I think we have all experienced prayer services where no prayer has been requested or offered that was not for a physical need. That is not to say that we are not to pray for physical afflictions, but we seem to be banging our head against the wall if that is the extent of our prayers.<\/p>\n

We are repeatedly told that we are to praise the Lord in our pray times. In spite of that we usually launch into a laundry list of requests instead of magnifying and glorifying the Lord who has given us eternal life.<\/p>\n

Besides praising the Lord, how should we be praying for others? In today\u2019s Scripture, Paul has just received word from Epaphras of the faith of the saints living in Colosse. His prayer for them should be a pattern for each of us as we pray for fellow Christians. He prayed continually for God to fill them with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding<\/span>. That is my prayer for each of you as you read this Daily-E-Votional!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today and be a blessing!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colossians 1:9 \u201cFor this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.”\u00a0 It seems that God\u2019s children have always had a question of how to pray. Jesus\u2019 disciples asked Him […]<\/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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colossians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}