{"id":7921,"date":"2011-06-11T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2011-06-09T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:26:11","slug":"blogging-through-the-gospels-luke-chapter-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/blogging-through-the-gospels-luke-chapter-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Through the Gospels: Luke Chapter 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest SOAP from Connie of Smockity Frocks.<\/p>\n<p>The reading for <strong>Sunday is Luke Chapter 18<\/strong><strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Scripture:<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Luke 18: 1 &#8220;Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Observation:<\/h3>\n<p>Jesus wanted to remind them to continue praying and not give up. It must have been easy to take God&#8217;s silence as rejection.<\/p>\n<h3>Application:<\/h3>\n<p>I should continue to pray and not become discouraged when I do not see an immediate answer to my prayers. This is particularly difficult when a situation seems desperate. Jesus knew this. He still knows.<\/p>\n<h3>Prayer:<\/h3>\n<p>Dear Lord, Thank you for hearing our prayers. Thank you for encouraging us through your word. Help us to not lose heart during periods of stress.<\/p>\n<p><em>Connie is a Christian, homeschooling mom of 8 rowdy children. She lives in the country with her husband of 26 years and is currently <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smockityfrocks.com\/tag\/layoff\" target=\"_blank\"><em>surviving a layoff<\/em><\/a><em>. She writes regularly at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/smockityfrocks.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Smockity Frocks<\/em><\/a><em> about frugal living, household management, homeschooling and more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Be sure to record your own <\/em><a href=\"..\/what-is-soap\/\" target=\"_blank\">SOAP observations<\/a> and feel free share your own thoughts or a link to your thoughts, here, too.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em>Didn&#8217;t start reading or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/blogging-through-the-gospels-with-momstoolbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blogging Through\u00a0 the Gospels<\/a> with us? That&#8217;s okay, join in anytime. Each Sunday evening I post the    reading schedule for the week ahead and each evening I post the next    day&#8217;s reading assignment and devotional. Feel free to jump in where we    are anytime and blog or journal along using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/what-is-soap\/\" target=\"_blank\">SOAP format<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em><em> Feel free to share your thoughts on Twitter using the #Gospels hashtag, too.<\/em><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><em>If  you would be interested in sharing your own SOAP observations on   MomsToolbox as a guest SOAP&#8217;er, please send me an email using the   contact button on the top right. I&#8217;ll be in touch soon to discuss the   details.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest SOAP from Connie of Smockity Frocks. The reading for Sunday is Luke Chapter 18. Scripture: Luke 18: 1 &#8220;Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart.&#8221; Observation: Jesus wanted to remind them to continue praying and not give up. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[682,275,136,672],"class_list":["post-7921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-through-the-gospels","tag-blogging-through-the-gospels","tag-guest-post","tag-luke","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921","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=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}