{"id":1610,"date":"2010-09-11T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:13","slug":"prayer-for-an-open-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"Prayer For an Open Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Colossians 4:3b\u00a0and the thought of <em><strong>prayer for an open door<\/strong><\/em>. Paul does not seek to be free from his prison but his prayer is for freedom to minister in the prison.\u00a0The<em><strong> mystery of Christ<\/strong><\/em> is that the gospel would be delivered to both Jews and Gentiles. Paul&#8217;s desire is\u00a0for a\u00a0door to be opened for him to do\u00a0exactly what landed\u00a0him in prison, which was preaching to the Gentile.\u00a0This burden has brought him before Felix, Festus, and King Agrippa, to show them the gospel.\u00a0It also gave him fruit from Caesar&#8217;s royal guard. Pray for me that God will continue to open doors that no man can shut, to share the gospel with a lost and dying world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Colossians 4:3b\u00a0and the thought of prayer for an open door. Paul does not seek to be free from his prison but his prayer is for freedom [&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-1610","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\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6105,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/6105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}