{"id":2241,"date":"2013-07-20T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T17:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2013-07-20T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T17:41:02","slug":"lord-what-do-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This is a revised repeat posting)<\/p>\n<p>I prayed, &#8220;Lord, what do You want me to do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Immediately He said, &#8220;Leave off the last part, and we&#8217;ll talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I prayed, &#8220;Lord, what do you want?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I want a relationship with you, I want time with you, I want to be close to you and come in to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, after several years I get the point:<\/p>\n<p>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How about praying, &#8220;Lord, what do You want, me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know, &#8220;Jesus Loves the Little Children&#8221; and<\/p>\n<p>anyone of us who come to Him as little children.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Simple &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Secure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is a revised repeat posting) I prayed, &#8220;Lord, what do You want me to do?&#8221; Immediately He said, &#8220;Leave off the last part, and we&#8217;ll talk.&#8221; So I prayed, &#8220;Lord, what do you want?&#8221; He said, &#8220;I want a relationship with you, I want time with you, I want to be close to you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241"}],"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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}