{"id":3488,"date":"2023-12-31T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","slug":"school-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3488","title":{"rendered":"SCHOOL OF PRAYER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Teach me how to pray.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am guessing that over the long run, making a habit of this simple, straightforward request of God along with daily contemplation on the words of the Lord&#8217;s Prayer will prove to be the most important development of my past year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It got started back in June when I came to the painful realization that I was woefully underqualified to preach on prayer &#8211; while I was in the pulpit with Luke&#8217;s account of Jesus&#8217; teaching on prayer in front of me.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was disastrous.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the next morning, I began to ask the Lord to teach me and I began to meditate on the words of the Lord&#8217;s Prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After years of stagnation, I am in the school of prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(OK, it&#8217;s kindergarten, but I&#8217;m on the right path!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Teach me how to pray.&#8221; I am guessing that over the long run, making a habit of this simple, straightforward request of God along with daily contemplation on the words of the Lord&#8217;s Prayer will prove to be the most important development of my past year.\u00a0 It got started back in June when I came [&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-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","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=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}