{"id":4227,"date":"2014-01-23T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:44","slug":"musing-through-matthew-secret-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4227","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew &#8211; Secret Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 6:6 and the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the King<\/em><\/strong>. In our text today our King deals with the best kind of praying and\u00a0it is\u00a0<strong><em>secret prayers<\/em><\/strong>. He tells us to go into our place of prayer, we all should have such a place. He then tells us to close the door, making sure that only you and the Father or present. Then we are to pour out our supplication to Him in secret. We shall pray best when our attention is confined to Him alone\u00a0and regards no one elses opinion but His. When we do secret praying it is through this type of praying He rewards His subjects openly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 6:6 and the theme of Jesus the King. In our text today our King deals with the best kind of praying and\u00a0it is\u00a0secret [&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-4227","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\/4227","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=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5293,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}