{"id":1608,"date":"2010-09-08T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T11:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","slug":"be-thankful-in-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"Be Thankful IN Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Colossians 4:2 and\u00a0<em><strong>the use of words.<\/strong><\/em> The one Paul speaks of here is <em><strong>supplication in words God.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Paul admonishes us<em><strong> to be\u00a0thankful in prayer<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0If all we ever do in prayer\u00a0is asked and never thank Him, we are showing that we are self fish. We should often thank God just for the privilege\u00a0we have\u00a0to come before God&#8217;s throne with boldness. What if this great privilege were to be removed? When\u00a0Saul could no longer knock on heaven&#8217;s door, he immediately\u00a0knocked on hell&#8217;s door.\u00a0We should often commit much of our prayer\u00a0to giving thanks to\u00a0Him alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Colossians 4:2 and\u00a0the use of words. The one Paul speaks of here is supplication in words God.\u00a0Paul admonishes us to be\u00a0thankful in prayer.\u00a0If all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6106,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/6106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}