{"id":37,"date":"2008-07-02T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T12:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-07-02T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T12:07:38","slug":"no-need-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"No need to pray?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this today, and it stayed with me:  &#8220;When an opportunity presents itself to go on a mission trip, it does not need to be preceded with prayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is true if one is already &#8220;prayed-up&#8221;.  If we take care to improve our personal relationship with God, His desires will become our desires.  This is surely the meaning of Psalm 37:4:  <em>&#8220;Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this today, and it stayed with me: &#8220;When an opportunity presents itself to go on a mission trip, it does not need to be preceded with prayer.&#8221; This is true if one is already &#8220;prayed-up&#8221;. If we take care to improve our personal relationship with God, His desires will become our desires. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=37\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No need to pray?&#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\/37"}],"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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}