{"id":139998,"date":"2025-09-25T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139998"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:28:35","slug":"a-prayer-to-begin-the-day-from-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139998","title":{"rendered":"A prayer to begin the day from Henry Alford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God, who hast commanded us to walk in the Spirit and not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh: Perfect us, we pray thee, in love, that we may conquer our natural selfishness and give ourselves to others. &nbsp;Fill our hearts with thy joy, and garrison them with thy peace; make us longsuffering and gentle, and thus subdue our hasty and angry tempers; give us faithfulness, meekness and self-control; that so crucifying the flesh with its affections and lusts, we may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit to thy praise and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An early morning SpaceX rocket launch out of Cape Canaveral, Florida has left a really cool vapor trail in the sky over Charleston! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gwx2AX41DW\">pic.twitter.com\/Gwx2AX41DW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joey Sovine Live 5 (@JoeySovine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeySovine\/status\/1971156547867689325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, who hast commanded us to walk in the Spirit and not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh: Perfect us, we pray thee, in love, that we may conquer our natural selfishness and give ourselves to others. &nbsp;Fill<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139998\">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":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139998","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=139998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140009,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139998\/revisions\/140009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}