{"id":49714,"date":"2015-05-06T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/faith_mcdonnell_praying_psalms_for_the_persecuted_church\/"},"modified":"2015-05-06T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:47:09","slug":"faith_mcdonnell_praying_psalms_for_the_persecuted_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49714","title":{"rendered":"Faith McDonnell: Praying Psalms for the Persecuted Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent sermon, the rector of my church recommended adding the Psalms to our prayers, if we had not already discovered this wonderful method of praying. At various times, I have used the Psalms in prayer, but that reminder was an encouragement to be more intentional about using this treasure trove of prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, praying the Psalms is also a powerful way to pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world. If anyone fits the description \u201cthe cords of death entangled me,\u201d\u009d it is Christians in Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria, or wherever Christians are suffering for the sake of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be great if Christians in the West all committed daily to praying Psalms on behalf of our persecuted brothers and sisters?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an example of doing just that from the Psalm I referenced above&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2015\/05\/05\/praying-psalms-for-the-persecuted-church\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent sermon, the rector of my church recommended adding the Psalms to our prayers, if we had not already discovered this wonderful method of praying. At various times, I have used the Psalms in prayer, but that reminder<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49714\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49714","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}