Am I allowing You to take me outside my \u201ccomfort zone\u201d when You ask, or am I sometimes only serving You when it\u2019s practical to do so?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nOuch\u2026 That\u2019s a convicting question.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019ve absolutely stretched my boundaries and grown in Faith but have I always done all I can?\u00a0 If I\u2019m brutally honest with myself the answer is a resounding no.\u00a0 Have I taken every opportunity to share Your Message with others?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Have I consistently followed the whispers You place in my heart, and dropped everything to accomplish Your Will?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Have I faithfully followed Jesus\u2019 example in every aspect of my daily life?\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n
Am I learning, growing and striving for transformation so that I may someday change those answers?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I am a work in progress Father; A repentant child who looks to You for guidance, inspiration, understanding and mercy.\u00a0 Please hear my prayer.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nHeavenly Father, I pray that in Your Word and with Your Guidance I continue to grow in Your Kingdom.\u00a0 Please lead me to bring Your Message to others, and to stray joyously out of the practical in Your Service.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n
~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; Good morning Father! During my morning web \u201cstumbling\u201d Lord, I came across a statement made on a blog site regarding missionary work that got the gears in my head spinning.\u00a0 The phrase used was : \u201cGod is not practical.\u201d.\u00a0 In the context of the article it was contained in the statement wasn\u2019t used […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[358,286,27,144,915,541,15,173,844,966,457,534,21,731,140,593,916,13,269,222,267,658,345,407,78,355,506,1033,217,205,62,291,545,736,697,300,1019,504,348,138,816],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-blog","tag-child","tag-comfort","tag-comfort-zone","tag-dear-lord","tag-example","tag-faith","tag-father","tag-follow","tag-god","tag-grow","tag-growing","tag-guidance","tag-head","tag-heart","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-inspiration","tag-jesus","tag-joy","tag-joyous","tag-lead-me","tag-learn","tag-learning","tag-life","tag-message","tag-morning","tag-practical","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-productive","tag-question","tag-serving","tag-statement","tag-understand","tag-understanding","tag-used","tag-will","tag-word","tag-work","tag-work-in-progress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-bi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}