{"id":92,"date":"2013-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/a-prayer-challenge\/"},"modified":"2013-04-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T00:00:00","slug":"a-prayer-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/a-prayer-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"A prayer challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Today&#8217;s post is a hijack of another blog.\u00a0 I stumbled across it today on Pinterest.\u00a0 Oh how I love Pinterest!\u00a0 This post is not the last time you&#8217;re going to hear me mention Pinterest!!<\/p>\n<p><span>The image below is one I found on <a title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/keepingitpersonal.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Keeping It Personal<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span>It&#8217;s a site I haven&#8217;t come across before, but I look forward to spending time checking them out more thoroughly.\u00a0 <span>You can download a printable copy, and read the original post <a title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/keepingitpersonal.com\/2012\/02\/pray-for-kids\/\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span>.<br \/><span><\/span><br \/>If you&#8217;re anything like me, prayers are mostly inserted in between business.\u00a0 Arrow prayers.\u00a0 Shoot one up quickly when the thought is there.\u00a0 Some days I slow down and make the time to really spend time talking with God, but honestly, it doesn&#8217;t happen nearly enough.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>In an effort to begin a new habit, I&#8217;m going to schedule prayer time for the next 31 days, and I&#8217;m challenging you to join me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be using the image below to give me a starting point.\u00a0 My prayers often revolve around my children, but rarely this sort of intentional praying.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also going to share this with my family and discuss what each of these virtues means.\u00a0 I know they won&#8217;t understand it all, but they&#8217;re smart kids and I don&#8217;t want to under estimate them!<\/p>\n<p><span>It doesn&#8217;t matter how old your children are, or even if they&#8217;re not your children, you can pray for any child you love and care, even one&#8217;s who haven&#8217;t been born yet.<\/span>\u00a0 You can be praying for their future spouse as well.\u00a0 It is NEVER too early to be praying for anyone, even people you haven&#8217;t met yet.<\/p>\n<p><span>So will you join me?\u00a0 Will you pray for the children in your life and see how God reveals himself<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p><span>Please let me know if you&#8217;re in on this challenge by way of a comment below.\u00a0 Lets encourage each other<\/span>.<br \/><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin \" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center\">\n <a><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theword-this-week.weebly.com\/\/uploads\/4\/1\/5\/2\/4152650\/7330985_orig.jpg\" alt=\"Picture\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:309px\"><br \/>\n <\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is a hijack of another blog.\u00a0 I stumbled across it today on Pinterest.\u00a0 Oh how I love Pinterest!\u00a0 This post is not the last time you&#8217;re going to hear me mention Pinterest!! The image below is one I found on Keeping It Personal.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a site I haven&#8217;t come across before, but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/05\/a-prayer-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A prayer challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}