{"id":3358,"date":"2021-06-05T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2021-06-03T10:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:51:33","slug":"lessons-in-prayer-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3358","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in Prayer &#8211; 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re always challenged to pray, and if you&#8217;re like me, you sometimes wonder what we should be praying for. The Apostle Paul gives us some sterling examples, two in Ephesians. I offer the first one here without further comment except to format the text so we can clearly see what Paul is asking for in Ephesians 1.15 &#8211; 23:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,\u00a0I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,<\/em><\/li><li><em>having the eyes of your hearts enlightened,<\/em><\/li><li><em>that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you,<\/em><\/li><li><em>what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,<\/em><\/li><li><em>and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might\u00a0that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,\u00a0far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.\u00a0And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,\u00a0which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re always challenged to pray, and if you&#8217;re like me, you sometimes wonder what we should be praying for. The Apostle Paul gives us some sterling examples, two in Ephesians. I offer the first one here without further comment except to format the text so we can clearly see what Paul is asking for in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lessons in Prayer &#8211; 1<\/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-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Sa","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","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=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}