{"id":2543,"date":"2022-01-27T17:48:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2022-02-02T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:17:11","slug":"blog-january-27th-prayer-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2543","title":{"rendered":"Blog January 27th Prayer (three)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2544\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Praying-3-300x185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Praying-3-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Praying-3-768x474.png 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Praying-3-624x385.png 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Praying-3.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2543-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/08-Jesus-You-Are-Everything-1.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/08-Jesus-You-Are-Everything-1.m4a\">https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/08-Jesus-You-Are-Everything-1.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Jesus You Are Everything featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album I Look Up To The Heavens recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson<\/p>\n<p>So here is the final episode on prayer which I read in the \u201cWord For Today\u201d and thought worthy of sharing:<br \/>\nYour prayer style should be consistent with the way God designed you. Yes, you can learn from people who are more experienced in prayer than you are, but you need to be careful not to make them your standard, or become a \u2018clone\u2019. It\u2019s wrong to force yourself to do what others do, if you are not comfortable with it in your spirit. Don\u2019t try to keep up with someone else, or copy their prayer style. And don\u2019t feel compelled to work every prayer principle you have ever learned, every time you pray. Most of us are afraid not to be like everyone else. We are more comfortable following specified rules than daring to follow the leading of God\u2019s Spirit. When we follow man-made rules, we please people. But when we step out in faith and follow God\u2019s Spirit, we please Him. You don\u2019t need to feel pressured to pray a certain way, or for a certain length of time, or to focus on specific things because other people are doing so. \u2018Untie the boat from the dock,\u2019 so to speak, and let the tide of God\u2019s Spirit take you wherever He wills. When you are in control, you know what will happen next. But when you let God\u2019s Spirit take the lead, you are in for a lot of surprises in life. Wonderful surprises! You need to be determined to be yourself, and refuse to spend your life feeling guilty because you\u2019re not like somebody else. The Bible says, \u2018He fashions their hearts individually.\u2019 So when it comes to prayer, the word for today is, \u2018Be yourself\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the week <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2546\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-12-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-12-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-12.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus You Are Everything featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album I Look Up To The Heavens recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson So here is the final episode on prayer which I read in the \u201cWord For Today\u201d and thought worthy of sharing: Your prayer style should be consistent with the way God designed [&hellip;]<\/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-2543","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\/2543","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=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}