{"id":6368,"date":"2023-09-02T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2023-08-24T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:25:33","slug":"the-prayer-hand-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6368","title":{"rendered":"The Prayer Hand &#8211; 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes it&#8217;s good to go back to basics, yes? And as we move into September, as much a &#8220;new year&#8221; as January 1 in some ways, let&#8217;s resolve to be more consistent in our prayer life. I know I need to do that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have two &#8220;Prayer Hand&#8221; illustrations: one from The Navigators and another that I&#8217;ll share tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/resource\/the-prayer-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Navigators Prayer Hand:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-17.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-17.png?resize=474%2C462&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-17.png?w=988&amp;ssl=1 988w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-17.png?resize=300%2C293&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-17.png?resize=768%2C749&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s pretty simple, encouraging us in five elements of prayer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Confession (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+John+1%3A9&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1 John 1.9<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Petition (prayer for ourselves) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Samuel+1%3A27&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1 Samuel 1.27<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intercession (prayer for others) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ephesians+6%3A18-19&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ephesians 6.18, 19<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thanksgiving (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ephesians+5%3A20&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ephesians 5.20<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Praise (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=PSalm+146%3A1+-+2&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Psalm 146.1, 2<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is more detail here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/navigators-prayer-hand.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Navigators Prayer Hand<\/a>. It&#8217;s free to download and share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, \u201cLord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.\u201d (Luke 11.1, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s good to go back to basics, yes? And as we move into September, as much a &#8220;new year&#8221; as January 1 in some ways, let&#8217;s resolve to be more consistent in our prayer life. I know I need to do that. I have two &#8220;Prayer Hand&#8221; illustrations: one from The Navigators and another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Prayer Hand &#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-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1EI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","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=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/6372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}