{"id":8271,"date":"2011-08-05T22:43:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T11:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2011-08-05T23:02:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T12:02:39","slug":"brian-roberts-bca-on-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/08\/05\/brian-roberts-bca-on-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Roberts BCA on Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Looking Forward, Looking Back:<\/strong> Brian\u2019s Last Say”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brian Roberts was\u00a0<\/strong>Farewelled as National Director of BCA at St Anne\u2019s in Ryde on Sunday\u00a0<\/strong>15th of May 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A key question: What would Brian speak about? – Answer:\u00a0Some of his\u00a0prayers from Tasmania! Read on,<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a famous quote from the 1994 movie Forrest Gump \u201cLife is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you\u2019re gonna get.\u201d Life is full of surprises; you can never quite know what is around the next turn. Our God is one who surprises in many different ways!<\/p>\n

1 John 5:14-15 talks about the confidence we have in drawing near to God through prayer when we pray in line with his will. Time and time again, over these past two decades I have seen God answer our prayers in unexpected ways. In ways which surprised me. I shouldn\u2019t have been surprised, but I was. Let me tell you about 5 prayer requests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To hear the encouraging\u00a0stories of Brian’s 5 prayer requests, all of which he made as a young BCA Missioner at the mining town of Zeehan on the West Coast of Tasmania,\u00a0read the rest of the article on page 3\u00a0of BCA Editorial –\u00a0“Looking Forward, Looking Back: Brian’s Last Say”<\/a><\/p>\n

Be encouraged in the ministry of prayer.<\/p>\n

You are warmly invited to\u00a0join us in pray at the Prayer Gatherings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Looking Forward, Looking Back: Brian\u2019s Last Say” Brian Roberts was\u00a0Farewelled as National Director of BCA at St Anne\u2019s in Ryde on Sunday\u00a015th of May 2011. A key question: What would Brian speak about? – Answer:\u00a0Some of his\u00a0prayers from Tasmania! Read … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271"}],"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=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8286,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions\/8286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}