{"id":2078,"date":"2012-04-05T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2012-04-05T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:25:13","slug":"approach-with-importunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"Approach With Importunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #800000;\">And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.\u00a0For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.<\/span>\u201d \u2013 Luke 11:9-10 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>In this exposition on prayer, Jesus encourages us to approach God with importunity and the certainty that our prayers will be heard.\u00a0 As we would come to a close friend in a time of need, our Heavenly Father desires us to lay aside our pride and doubt, and to confidently seek His guidance and aid.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.\u00a0For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.\u201d \u2013 Luke 11:9-10 (ESV) In this exposition on prayer, Jesus [&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":[2796,321,3194,7,2795,966,1745,269,2244,2797,186,2243],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-approach-god","tag-christ","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-doubt","tag-exposition-on-prayer","tag-god","tag-gospel-of-luke","tag-jesus","tag-our-heavenly-father","tag-prayers-are-heard","tag-pride","tag-seek-gods-guidance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-xw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}