Ninety percent of our prayers usually ask God to make our life easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That may be okay, but . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Christians, an easier life should not be our goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Study everything the Bible says about <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ease<\/p>\n\n\n\n
rest<\/p>\n\n\n\n
peace<\/p>\n\n\n\n
trouble<\/p>\n\n\n\n
tribulation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
suffering<\/p>\n\n\n\n
persecution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninety percent of our prayers usually ask God to make our life easier. That may be okay, but . . . As Christians, an easier life should not be our goal. – – – Study everything the Bible says about ease rest peace trouble tribulation suffering persecution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079"}],"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=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}