{"id":6986,"date":"2021-02-03T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2021-02-03T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:01:45","slug":"prayer-staying-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/prayer-staying-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer: Staying Connected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Staying Connected<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Striving toward a life of Unceasing Prayer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>O\nLord, as we raise our hearts to You who are so wondrous, help us first to think\nof our sins, our weaknesses, and our shortcomings and beg for mercy and\nforgiveness. Clear us of the corruptions that infect our hearts, remove the\nblindness from our mind\u2019s eye that hides our sins, and purify us through\nprayer. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>O\nLord, we pray that we may learn how to pray in spirit and in truth. We pray\nthat we may learn how to have Your word on our lips or in our hearts\nunceasingly. We pray that You may teach us discipline and perseverance that we\nmay approach you in Your majesty and turn to You with awe in our hearts. We\npray that our lives become a prayer. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>O\nLord, we thank you that the path to your heavenly house is always open to us.\nWe thank You that we need only look within ourselves to find You and that this\nsight, this prayer, is always open to us. We thank you for Your constant\ngiving. We pray finally, O Lord, save us! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Amen.\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staying Connected Striving toward a life of Unceasing Prayer Prayer O Lord, as we raise our hearts to You who are so wondrous, help us first to think of our sins, our weaknesses, and our shortcomings and beg for mercy and forgiveness. Clear us of the corruptions that infect our hearts, remove the blindness from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/prayer-staying-connected\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prayer: Staying Connected&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6987,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/6987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}