{"id":2174,"date":"2016-05-16T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twolisteners.org\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2016-05-16T02:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T07:30:04","slug":"may-16-pray-and-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=2174","title":{"rendered":"May 16 &#8211; Pray and Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1731 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/e_go41.jpg\" alt=\"E_GO41\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I will be much entreated because I know that only in that earnest supplication, and the calm trust that results, does man learn strength and gain peace.\u00a0 Therefore I have laid that incessant, persistent pleading as a duty upon My disciples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Never weary in prayer.\u00a0 When one day man sees how marvelously his prayer has been answered, then he will deeply, so deeply, regret that he prayed so little.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Prayer changes all. Prayer re-creates.\u00a0 Prayer is irresistible.\u00a0 So pray, literally without ceasing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Pray until you almost cease to pray, because trust has become so rock-like, and then pray on because it has become so much a habit that you cannot resist it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">And always pray until Prayer merges into Praise.\u00a0 That is the only note on which true prayer should end.\u00a0 It is the Love and Laughter of your attitude towards man interpreted in the Pray and Praise of your attitude towards God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.\u00a0 Luke 18:1<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be much entreated because I know that only in that earnest supplication, and the calm trust that results, does man learn strength and gain peace.\u00a0 Therefore I have laid that incessant, persistent pleading as a duty upon My disciples. Never weary in prayer.\u00a0 When one day man sees how marvelously his prayer has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=2174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 16 &#8211; Pray and Praise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godcalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}