{"id":1970,"date":"2009-06-18T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2009-06-18T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T14:18:00","slug":"soap-a-little-guidance-on-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/soap-a-little-guidance-on-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"SOAP: A little guidance on prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scripture: Colossians 4: 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong> Pray, and approach God in thanks and be prepared to listen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> God wants us to spend time with him. Time that is dedicated just to him.<\/p>\n<p>(I am not doing so well at this exact moment, I must confess. My children all of a sudden \u2018need\u2019 me, and this is quite a quandary. Next time I will be sure to work harder at doing this before they rise.)<\/p>\n<p>In addition to dedicated time just for him, I think this verse is also telling us to go to him in thanks, no matter our circumstances and to also go to him prepared to listen.<\/p>\n<p>I believe he wants to hear all of our requests. But I don\u2019t think he wants them to be in the form of a laundry list that we dictate and then roll over and go to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>He wants us to be alert. To share. To listen and to appreciate and be truly thankful for his gifts to us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong> Lord, thank you for your forgiveness of my lack of planning this morning. And thank you for guiding me to find a way to spend this time with you, nonetheless. It\u2019s pretty amazing that once I got that point, the kids wandered off and started occupying themselves quite well. Thank you for that.<\/p>\n<p>Please guide me in keeping my prayer life and conversations with you alive, honest and as you would have them. I want our relationship to continue growing. Thank you for wanting the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 4: 2 Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. Observation: Pray, and approach God in thanks and be prepared to listen. Application: God wants us to spend time with him. Time that is dedicated just to him. (I am not doing so well at this exact moment, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}