{"id":3411,"date":"2014-04-29T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T10:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2014-04-29T06:35:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T10:35:49","slug":"read-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3411","title":{"rendered":"Read backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Philippians 4:6-7<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We might say this verse should be read backwards. If we read it that way, we would understand more clearly what Paul is trying to say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pray about everything. Bring your requests, large and small, to your Heavenly Father. Pray hard over them. Then you&#8217;ll know His peace. And when you do, or as you do, there will be less and less room in your heart for anxious, troubling thoughts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippians 4:6-7 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God&#8230; We might say this verse should be read backwards. If we read it that way, we would understand more clearly what Paul is trying to say. &#8220;Pray &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Read backwards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}