{"id":40564,"date":"2026-06-04T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40564"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:33:14","slug":"26-0605-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0605-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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When I pray, I think of a thousand things I need to do. I forget the one thing I set out to do: pray. Can you relate?<\/p>\n

But wouldn\u2019t we all like to pray\u2026 More? Better? Deeper? Stronger? With more fire, faith, or fervency? Yet we have kids to feed, bills to pay, deadlines to meet. We want to pray, but\u00a0when<\/em>? We want to pray, but\u00a0why<\/em>? We have our doubts about prayer, our checkered history of unmet expectations, unanswered questions. We aren\u2019t the first. The sign-up for Prayer 101 contains familiar names: John, James, Andrew, and Peter. The first followers of Jesus needed prayer guidance.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my challenge for you: every day for four weeks, pray four minutes. Then get ready to connect with God like never before.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0Read more\u00a0Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Some people excel in prayer. They are the SEAL Team Six of intercession. They\u2019d rather pray than sleep. Why is it I sleep when I pray? It\u2019s not that we don\u2019t pray at all; we all pray some. Surveys indicate one in five unbelievers prays daily. Just in case, perhaps?<\/p>\n

When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, he gave them a prayer. A quotable, repeatable, portable prayer. Could you use the same? \u201cFather, You are good. I need help. Heal me and forgive me. They need help. Thank you. In Jesus\u2019 name, amen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my challenge for you: every day for 4 weeks, pray four minutes. Then get ready to connect with God like never before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40567,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40564\/revisions\/40567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}