{"id":7334,"date":"2021-10-31T17:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T07:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2021-10-31T17:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T07:34:47","slug":"mustard-seeds-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/mustard-seeds-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustard Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Mustard Seeds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quote<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Faith gives wings to prayer, and without it we cannot fly up to Heaven.\u00a0 <\/p><cite>St. John Climacus, &#8220;The Ladder of Divine Ascent,&#8221; (Boston: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1978), Step28: On Holy and Blessed Prayer, the Mother of Virtues, and on the Attitude of Mind and Body in Prayer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Challenge<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Enhance your quiet time in the same way as Bob from the story before- set up an empty chair beside and speak to God in faith that He is beside you and listening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Father God, when my strength is gone, I am unable\u2014but Your Word says I can do all thing through Christ who strengthens me. Give me Your strength, not physical strength but the power to move mountains that flows from faith in You. Help me to depend on You to do what I think I cannot do. Let your strength alone sustain me<\/em>. <em>Help me to renew my faith in You day by day so I am ever blessed with your presence.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustard Seeds Quote Faith gives wings to prayer, and without it we cannot fly up to Heaven.\u00a0 St. John Climacus, &#8220;The Ladder of Divine Ascent,&#8221; (Boston: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1978), Step28: On Holy and Blessed Prayer, the Mother of Virtues, and on the Attitude of Mind and Body in Prayer Challenge Enhance your quiet time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/mustard-seeds-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mustard Seeds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7329,"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-7334","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\/7334","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=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7335,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions\/7335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}