{"id":3424,"date":"2014-05-15T08:24:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T12:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2014-05-15T08:24:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T12:24:46","slug":"god-alone-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"God alone knows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Colossians 4:2<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are not commanded here to participate in some vain exercise. \u00a0Yet we cannot presume that our feeble prayers have a magic power to change the mind of Him who works all things after the counsel of His own will.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t go there. \u00a0The sacred scriptures teach us that God is sovereign. But they also command us to pray, and to pray earnestly. \u00a0God alone knows how it all works together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colossians 4:2 Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving. We are not commanded here to participate in some vain exercise. \u00a0Yet we cannot presume that our feeble prayers have a magic power to change the mind of Him who works all things after the counsel of His own will. Don&#8217;t go there. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God alone knows&#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\/3424"}],"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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}