{"id":1609,"date":"2010-09-07T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","slug":"pray-with-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"Pray With Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Colossians\u00a04:3a\u00a0and one of <em>the uses for words<\/em>. The one Paul has before us is <em><strong>supplication in words to God.<\/strong><\/em> Paul here asked us <em><strong>to pray with direction in the words, pray for me<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0Oh how many times we pray\u00a0and it is vague or\u00a0in general. The prayer we often use is Lord, bless all the missionaries or church family. Have you ever thought He may not want to\u00a0 bless them all? John tells us to seek his will and\u00a0then pray according to what God wants. Richard Trench Archbishop of Dublin said, <em><strong>&#8220;prayer is not overcoming God&#8217;s reluctance; it is laying hold of His willingness<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse again today from Colossians\u00a04:3a\u00a0and one of the uses for words. The one Paul has before us is supplication in words to God. Paul here asked us to pray [&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-1609","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\/1609","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=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6107,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}