{"id":2057,"date":"2009-07-10T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2009-07-10T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:56:09","slug":"soap-pray-with-belief-not-exasperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/soap-pray-with-belief-not-exasperation\/","title":{"rendered":"SOAP: Pray with belief, not exasperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>I\u2019m deviating from the original Bible reading plan. I hope to explain later.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Here\u2019s what I have for today:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark 11: 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong> Have some faith in your prayers: believe they will be answered and they will be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> Sometimes when I pray, I figuratively thrown up my hands and say something like this \u201cIf you can fix it, then fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, He can fix it. My frustration and defeatist attitude isn\u2019t going to help matters.<\/p>\n<p>I need to turn that frustrated frown upside down <em>always<\/em> and present my requests at His glorious feet with confidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong> Lord, I am sorry that I don\u2019t always pray with gusto. And I\u2019m sorry I\u2019ve been moping around feeling kind of lost lately.<\/p>\n<p>Even now you have me and you hold me.<\/p>\n<p>You created me. I need to stop looking at all my faults and revel in the fact that I am yours. And that you want us to work together.<\/p>\n<p>Please, forgive me for this moping.<\/p>\n<p>Pull me out of it and mold me into the woman you intend for me to be.<\/p>\n<p>I need some directions and oomph. Please give those to me.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to a change in attitude and a renewed focus that I know will come from you at just the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m deviating from the original Bible reading plan. I hope to explain later. Here\u2019s what I have for today: Mark 11: 24 24Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Observation: Have some faith in your prayers: believe they will be answered [&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-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","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=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}