{"id":1169,"date":"2019-08-19T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2019-08-15T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:02:00","slug":"do-we-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Do We Ask?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">[To follow <strong><em>The Ewellogy<\/em><\/strong>, please click on <strong><em>Leave a Comment<\/em><\/strong> above, fill in your name and email, and check the box: <strong><em>Notify me of new posts by email<\/em><\/strong>. If your comment is, &#8220;Notify me,&#8221; it won&#8217;t post publicly. If you don&#8217;t start to receive the blog by email right away, please write to me at bob@ewell.com, and I will see that you get on the list.] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s another snippet of Jesus&#8217; visit to Nazareth as recorded in Mark 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>He was unable to do any great miracle in Nazareth, except to heal a few sick people by laying his hands upon them. (Mark 6.5, Passion Translation)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve always this verse somewhat amusing. &#8220;No great miracle&#8221; except, well, heal a few sick people&#8230; I think healing a few sick people is pretty cool, but he could have done more. Why was he &#8220;unable&#8221;? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was using the Gospel of Mark to teach some people how to have daily time with God, and one of them conjectured: &#8220;He couldn&#8217;t do many miracles there because no one asked!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You do not have because you do not ask. (James 4.2, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. (John 16.24, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another snippet of Jesus&#8217; visit to Nazareth as recorded in Mark 6. He was unable to do any great miracle in Nazareth, except to heal a few sick people by laying his hands upon them. (Mark 6.5, Passion Translation) I&#8217;ve always this verse somewhat amusing. &#8220;No great miracle&#8221; except, well, heal a few sick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do We Ask?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-iR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}