{"id":2033,"date":"2012-02-28T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2012-02-28T09:53:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T13:53:03","slug":"more-than-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"More Than Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cAnd when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.\u00a0Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Matthew 6:7-8 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>You need not be an eloquent speaker to pray; God knows our hearts, and our needs long before we utter a single syllable.\u00a0 When we come to the Lord with an open heart, an open mind and a willing spirit, no matter what words are said our prayers are always received, and understood without question.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.\u00a0Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.\u201d \u2013 Matthew 6:7-8 (ESV) You need not be an eloquent speaker to pray; God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[2742,3194,2738,966,2171,1180,269,2740,2739,205,2528,2741],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-all-prayers-are-heard","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-eloquent-speaker","tag-god","tag-god-knows-our-heart","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-jesus","tag-open-heart","tag-open-mind","tag-prayer","tag-sermon-on-the-mount","tag-willing-spirit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-wN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}