{"id":1749,"date":"2020-02-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2020-02-01T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T02:54:20","slug":"prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I often pray while riding my exercise bike, and I must confess there are times when I think, “Is this doing any good? Just ‘thinking of certain things’ here in my house?”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I (re)read Matthew 6.6:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. (Matthew 6.6, ESV)
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Sounds like a promise to me! And it’s one for which I meet the conditions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You do not have because you do not ask. (James 4.2, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. June and I leave this morning, February 6, for the 2:7 Jubilee Conference<\/a> in Frisco, Texas, returning Sunday morning, February 9. We’d appreciate your prayers! I look forward to sharing highlights of that time with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often pray while riding my exercise bike, and I must confess there are times when I think, “Is this doing any good? Just ‘thinking of certain things’ here in my house?”\u00a0 Then I (re)read Matthew 6.6: But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who … Continue reading Prayer?<\/span> →<\/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-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8X9bo-prayer","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","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=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}