{"id":3785,"date":"2020-10-19T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:52:53","slug":"answered-prayer-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3785","title":{"rendered":"Answered Prayer Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Deuteronomy 7:22 Poetized)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of all the times when <br>Answered prayer was delayed. <br>Oh the whining and the moaning <br>The groaning for our wishes <br>To be fulfilled on our table <br>Of time. <br>But what a crime<br>It should be <br>(And we shall see!) <br>The folly of our own wants <br>Displayed in the haunts <br>Of our personal story <br>Oft seeking not His glory <br>But our own pleasures galore. <br>Yet what a horrible bore <br>Are those self-centered schemes. <br>Best to seek out His will <br>Put your own on &#8220;chill,&#8221; <br>Find out His ways, <br>Enjoy and extend yours days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0858, 18 Oct., 2020<br>(Inspired by Moses)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Deuteronomy 7:22 Poetized) Think of all the times when Answered prayer was delayed. Oh the whining and the moaning The groaning for our wishes To be fulfilled on our table Of time. But what a crimeIt should be (And we shall see!) The folly of our own wants Displayed in the haunts Of our personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,30,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}