{"id":1751,"date":"2020-02-11T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2020-02-09T21:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T04:32:49","slug":"a-prayer-tip-from-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1751","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer Tip from Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Relating to <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1749\">a recent message on prayer<\/a>, here&#8217;s something I picked up from the memorial service of Sue Marotta, who passed away suddenly on January 23 at the age of 83. She and Basil had been in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jericho-ministries.org\/about-us\/who-we-are\/?view=mobile\">full-time ministry<\/a> for well over 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/basil-and-sue.jpg?resize=326%2C539&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/basil-and-sue.jpg?w=326&amp;ssl=1 326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/basil-and-sue.jpg?resize=181%2C300&amp;ssl=1 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><figcaption>Basil and Sue Marotta, 83 years old, met on the dance floor when they were in high school!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sue, like the apostles (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=acts+5%3A42&amp;version=ESV\">Acts 5.42<\/a>), taught &#8220;in the temple and from house to house,&#8221; according to her friends at the memorial. In a house, her preferred podium was the kitchen table! So what was the prayer lesson? Sue encouraged people to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Talk to God like he&#8217;s your friend! Quit &#8220;praying&#8221; to him!! -Sue Marotta<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s a good word from someone who, as I write, can talk with Jesus face-to-face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Thus the  LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. (Exodus 33.11, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master\u2019s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I  learned from my Father I have made known to you. (John 15.15, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relating to a recent message on prayer, here&#8217;s something I picked up from the memorial service of Sue Marotta, who passed away suddenly on January 23 at the age of 83. She and Basil had been in full-time ministry for well over 20 years. Sue, like the apostles (see Acts 5.42), taught &#8220;in the temple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Prayer Tip from Sue<\/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-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-sf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","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=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}