{"id":15868,"date":"2015-12-16T22:13:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=15868"},"modified":"2015-12-16T22:14:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:14:28","slug":"praying-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2015\/12\/16\/praying-in-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"

In conversation about prayer today,\u00a0Peter Adam commented on\u00a0Brother Andrew and prayers for a persecuted church:<\/p>\n

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Please don\u2019t pray for us. <\/span><\/div>\n
Please pray <\/span>with<\/u><\/span> us.<\/span><\/div>\n
If you pray <\/span>for<\/u><\/span> us, you will pray for the wrong things. <\/span>You will pray for safety. <\/span><\/div>\n
But if you pray <\/span>with<\/u><\/span> us, <\/span>you will ask God to bring millions to faith in Christ. <\/span><\/div>\n
You will pray that when the inevitable backlash comes because of our witness, we will be faithful, even if it costs us our lives.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Can I pray in this way for the persecuted church?<\/p>\n

Can I pray this\u00a0for\u00a0our missionaries, can I pray this for myself in the evolving context of Australian life and ministry?<\/p>\n

May\u00a0God give me the strength to be real in my discipleship, in my prayer life. Amen.<\/p>\n

Also, Archbishop Romero’s Prayer\/ Poem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In conversation about prayer today,\u00a0Peter Adam commented on\u00a0Brother Andrew and prayers for a persecuted church: Please don\u2019t pray for us. Please pray with us. If you pray for us, you will pray for the wrong things. You will pray for safety. But if you pray with us, you will ask God to bring millions to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15872,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions\/15872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}