{"id":7046,"date":"2021-04-03T17:48:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T07:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=7046"},"modified":"2021-04-03T17:48:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T07:48:56","slug":"prayer-a-place-of-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/prayer-a-place-of-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer: A Place of Rest"},"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\">A Place of Rest: Spending Time with God<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lord You know that we love\nYou and sincerely want to grow closer to You and spend time with You, but get\nso easily distracted. Like a silly sheep, our mind wanders, and find our\nthoughts far from You.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Do not let the enemy &#8211; the devil &#8211; overwhelm us with excessive hope, but alert our minds and awaken our hearts from the sleep of inattention and wasting our lifetime in vain.<br> May we be consumed by Your almighty presence above all worldly pleasures, desire and distractions so that we may live united with You in the Spirit. Glory be to Your Name forevermore, Amen. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Place of Rest: Spending Time with God Lord You know that we love You and sincerely want to grow closer to You and spend time with You, but get so easily distracted. Like a silly sheep, our mind wanders, and find our thoughts far from You. Do not let the enemy &#8211; the devil &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/prayer-a-place-of-rest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prayer: A Place of Rest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7038,"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":[357,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-groups","category-small-groups-small-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046","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=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7047,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions\/7047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}