{"id":3355,"date":"2010-09-28T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T13:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2010-09-28T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T13:04:53","slug":"prayer-benediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/prayer-benediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer: Benediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3356\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolfpotts.com\/images\/road\/stpete1.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3356 \" title=\"stpete1\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/stpete1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stpete1.jpg 576w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stpete1-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stpete1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo\/link by Rolf Potts. (St. Petersburg, Russia Midnight sunset near Nevskii Prospect)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>(I&#8217;ll be a professorial substitute on Thursday, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it. Below is the prayer from <a href=\"http:\/\/evangelical.edu\">Dr. Laurie Mellinger&#8217;s<\/a> lesson plan for that night. It&#8217;s the Benediction Prayer.) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\">I post it today for your personal reflection. Sometimes we don&#8217;t make the time to collect ourselves this way. Here&#8217;s a our chance today. Maybe it&#8217;s also something you&#8217;d like to share with someone else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>Let us receive Your words<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong> and treasure up Your commandments within us; <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>Make our ears attentive to wisdom<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong> and incline our hearts to understanding; <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>yes, may we call out for insight<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong> and raise our voices for understanding. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>Let us seek it like silver<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong> and search for it as for hidden treasures, <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>that we may understand the fear of the Lord<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong> and find the knowledge of God. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>For You, Lord, give wisdom;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong> from Your mouth come knowledge and understanding.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><em>(Share your comments and reflections)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer of Reflection and Benediction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[384,6,397,668,13,14,15,750,899,19,1159,1972,2003,45,2077,2512,2534,59,60,2658,2840,2906,2930,2953,3025,3195,74,6539,3220,86,87,91],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-benediction","tag-bible","tag-bible-college","tag-christian-practices","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-church","tag-college","tag-dallas-willard","tag-devotions","tag-evangelical-theological-seminary","tag-laurie-mellinger","tag-lessona-plan","tag-life-as-prayer","tag-love","tag-peace","tag-personal-growth","tag-practicing-the-presence-of-god","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-of-reflection","tag-religion","tag-rolf-potts","tag-russia","tag-sanctification","tag-seminary","tag-spiritual-formation","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-spirituality","tag-st-petersburg","tag-travel","tag-walking-with-god","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}