{"id":2617,"date":"2020-10-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2020-10-09T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T22:25:24","slug":"rescue-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2617","title":{"rendered":"Rescue us!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve been working through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2595\">Luke\u2019s version of the Lord\u2019s prayer<\/a>\u00a0in the Passion Translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>One day, as Jesus was in prayer, one of his disciples came over to him as he finished and said, \u201cWould you teach us a model prayer that we can pray, just like John did for his disciples?\u201d So Jesus taught them this prayer:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>\u201cOur heavenly Father, may the glory of your name be the center on which our life turns.<\/em><\/li><li><em>May your Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us.<\/em><\/li><li><em>Manifest your kingdom on earth.<\/em><\/li><li><em>And give us our needed bread for the coming day.<\/em><\/li><li><em>Forgive our sins as we ourselves release forgiveness to those who have wronged us.<\/em><\/li><li><strong><em>And rescue us every time we face tribulations.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><em>(Luke 11.1 \u2013 4, Passion Translation, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a direct prayer: rescue us! Rescue us every time we face tribulations. And we will face tribulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prayer is for rescue. Rescue us every time. Yesterday\u2019s rescue doesn\u2019t count. It\u2019s a continuous prayer for continuous rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many are in various tribulations right now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>COVID and COVID restrictions<\/li><li>Cities with violent protest<\/li><li>Serious illness: at least two close Navigator friends have serious cancer, for example<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever the tribulation, large or small, let&#8217;s make prayer the first line of attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rescue us every time we face tribulations. (Luke 11.4, Passion Translation)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cIn the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.\u201d (John 16.33, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been working through\u00a0Luke\u2019s version of the Lord\u2019s prayer\u00a0in the Passion Translation. One day, as Jesus was in prayer, one of his disciples came over to him as he finished and said, \u201cWould you teach us a model prayer that we can pray, just like John did for his disciples?\u201d So Jesus taught them this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rescue us!<\/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-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Gd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","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=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}