This morning my knees were bothering me so much that I didn’t think I should kneel on the cold floor to pray.\u00a0 Immediately the obvious hit me—the obstacles to serious prayer.<\/p>\n
We are in the most serious time of our lives.\u00a0 If you are serious about following Jesus, and if you are serious about making a difference in the parts that are for keeps, then serious prayer must be a continuous way of life now.\u00a0 (over-use of the word is intentional)<\/p>\n
I’ve written before about kneeling to pray.\u00a0 All I can say is this:\u00a0 Just start doing it, and if you need encouragement, just look up the number of Bible references and historical references to kneeling.<\/p>\n
God Help Us Now.<\/p>\n
God Bless You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This morning my knees were bothering me so much that I didn’t think I should kneel on the cold floor to pray.\u00a0 Immediately the obvious hit me—the obstacles to serious prayer. We are in the most serious time of our lives.\u00a0 If you are serious about following Jesus, and if you are serious about making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}