{"id":3099,"date":"2022-02-13T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","slug":"conviction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"CONVICTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew there was danger in increasing the time and attention I was giving to Scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew it might alter my perceptions of reality. (Which can be a little scary, but nothing I can&#8217;t handle.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I knew it might convict me. On multiple levels.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Because that is one of the Bible&#8217;s main jobs.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I hate to admit it to myself &#8211; much less to you &#8211; but I knew one of the things I would eventually be convicted on was my prayer life.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My prayer practice has ebbed and flowed over my entire life, but it has never, ever been stellar. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe I am finally ready.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so I am open to hearing from you &#8211; What practices have you found useful in drawing you deeper into prayer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew there was danger in increasing the time and attention I was giving to Scripture. I knew it might alter my perceptions of reality. (Which can be a little scary, but nothing I can&#8217;t handle.) And I knew it might convict me. On multiple levels. (Because that is one of the Bible&#8217;s main jobs.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}