{"id":9513,"date":"2013-03-18T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2013-03-18T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T21:08:12","slug":"when-we-pray-march-18-2013-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/when-we-pray-march-18-2013-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Never stop praying, March 18, 2013 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My hand and Jake’s hand folded in prayer<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cFather, if it is your will, take this cup from me, yet not my will but yours be done.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke 22: 42<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When we pray we say \u201cGod, I need help with this problem or that problem. For example I can\u2019t pay my bills. I need money. Can you please help me pay my bills?\u201d Then we play the lottery and lose. We call on God again and say \u201cI thought prayer worked! Never mind!!\u201d and many of us just stop praying.<\/p>\n

God is a mystery. Our human minds will never be able to comprehend God, his thoughts, actions or immense love for us. Many of us can\u2019t even understand or fully believe in His existence. Faith is a gift given to us by God. Faith is what motivates us to pray when we just can\u2019t logically think it is the right strategy for meeting our needs or desires.<\/p>\n

Prayer is complicated but at its core it is communication with God. Jesus introduces to us God as \u201cAbba\u201d translated daddy, a gentle, loving and forgiving father. Jesus also gave us the prayer \u201cOur Father\u201d.\u00a0 In it we praise God ask for his mercy, for our daily bread and for the blessing that we are able to bring His kingdom to our world today.<\/p>\n

God gave us complete free will, no strings attached. We can do whatever we want in this lifetime. Although God can intervene and does through miracles, He wants us to find the way to Him. The surest way to God is through prayer. We can talk to Him at any time, in any place. We can tell Him anything. Our prayers may not be answered the way we want them answered but that doesn\u2019t mean He did not hear us.<\/p>\n

We cannot understand God and we are unable to see the future. God knows what we NEED. At the end of our lives we will be able to look back and understand a little more of how those prayers were answered.<\/p>\n

Never stop praying. Come to God with your petitions, quandaries and praise. Ask for miracles and healing. End your prayers sincerely with \u201cYour Will Be Done.\u201d Although we think we know what we need God indeed knows best. Never stop praying. God loves to listen to your voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you pray?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20,22,533,38,275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}