{"id":2255,"date":"2021-02-25T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T19:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2021-02-25T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T19:36:21","slug":"blog-february-25th-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"Blog February 25th Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week I shared something that I had first read in the \u201cWord for Today\u201d and here is another extract from this daily devotional, written by Bob and Debby Gass and published UCB.
\nI have put one piece in bold as I thought it particularly helpful- a wonderful, inspiring but simple definition of prayer:
\nGod hasn\u2019t made prayer difficult or complicated, but really simple. The truth is, many of us pray more often than we know. And we have a more effective and successful prayer life than we realise. The trouble is, we don\u2019t always recognise when we\u2019re praying. That\u2019s because we\u2019ve got the wrong idea about it. We\u2019ve been taught that prayer requires a specific environment like church, or a prescribed posture like kneeling, or a particular form of words like \u2018Thee\u2019 and \u2018Thou\u2019, and that we must strictly adhere to certain religious rituals. No, prayer is simply talking to God, then being still and allowing Him to talk to you. You can pray anytime, anywhere, about anything, by just directing your thoughts,\u00a0spoken\u00a0and\u00a0unspoken, towards God. Paul writes, \u2018We fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.\u2019 Imagine that all of God\u2019s blessings and benefits are stored in a giant warehouse in the invisible realm; things like forgiveness, strength, wisdom, guidance, favour, and resources. Through prayer you enter God\u2019s warehouse of blessings, and by faith you receive them and bring them back into your life. The Bible says you have not because you ask not (see James 4:2). So whatever you need today, pray and ask God for it \u2013 believing that He will give it to you. Jesus said, \u2018If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted\u2019 (John\u200915:7 NLT).
\nTaken from the Word for Today Nov 2020
\nQuote of the week
\nLet go of yesterday\u2019s mistakes in order to grasp today\u2019s blessings
\nWord for Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bathe Me In Your Light featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album I Look Up To The Heavens recorded and produced by John Hodginson Last week I shared something that I had first read in the \u201cWord for Today\u201d and here is another extract from this daily devotional, written by Bob and Debby Gass and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}