{"id":13133,"date":"2009-06-02T21:20:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_peter_jensen_why_do_we_avoid_the_joy_of_prayer\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T21:20:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:20:35","slug":"archbishop_peter_jensen_why_do_we_avoid_the_joy_of_prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13133","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Peter Jensen: Why do we avoid the joy of prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this in the midst of a great prayer meeting. The Chapter House is crowded with people calling on the Lord for our city and our nation. We are not so much praying for our churches, but for the mission field by which we are surrounded.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t tell you how much joy there is in the room, for that is the strange fact \u201d\u201c we find every excuse possible not to pray and not to meet for prayer, but when we do, the Lord\u2019s presence is manifest and the Lord\u2019s people build each other up. More importantly, we have the Lord\u2019s specific promise to hear and respond to our prayers in his name.<\/p>\n<p>Next time we have this opportunity to join together in prayer \u201d\u201c say \u201d\u02dcNo\u2019 to the evil one who always wishes to frustrate our prayers, and readily join together to call on the name of our great Lord!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyanglicans.net\/news\/southerncross\/articles\/why_do_we_avoid_the_joy_of_prayer\">Read it all&#8211;a great reminder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this in the midst of a great prayer meeting. The Chapter House is crowded with people calling on the Lord for our city and our nation. We are not so much praying for our churches, but for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13133\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,50,395,74,204,177,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-pastoral-theology","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}