{"id":9960,"date":"2021-11-07T06:37:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T12:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-mark-11\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:19:43","slug":"devotional-on-mark-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-mark-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15732\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2664.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2664-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15732\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2664-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2664-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2664-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2664-1536x865.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2664.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Dead Horse Point State Park, UT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prayer mandate <\/p>\n<p>Mark 11: Pray for absolutely everything.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is a man of prayer.  He prays in public and he prays in private.  He teaches his disciples to pray.  On this final trip to Jerusalem, he drives the sellers out of the Temple grounds because they\u2019ve turned the Temple into a place of business instead of it being a \u201chouse of prayer for the nations.\u201d  After the miracle of the fig tree Jesus points the disciples to faith and prayer, remarking that the results can move mountains.  Then, he teaches his listeners to not only ask in prayer, but to also forgive that they might be forgiven.  Prayer, then, for followers of Jesus is central.  Our places of worship are to be focused on prayer.  We\u2019re to deal with problems and disappointments by going to prayer.  As we pray, we\u2019re to allow the Lord to help us see our own hearts and to respond as he wants us to.  It\u2019s impossible to be truly Christian yet not pray.  As the disciples asked we also ask: \u201cLord teach us to pray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take Away: Prayer is the key.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer mandate Mark 11: Pray for absolutely everything. Jesus is a man of prayer. He prays in public and he prays in private. He teaches his disciples to pray. On this final trip to Jerusalem, he drives the sellers out of the Temple grounds because they\u2019ve turned the Temple into a place of business instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517,1428],"tags":[1210,1224,340,845],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15734,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions\/15734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}