{"id":4012,"date":"2011-08-31T05:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T10:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2011-08-31T05:54:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T10:54:02","slug":"motives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4012","title":{"rendered":"Motives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then Jesus answered him, &#8216;What do you want Me to do for you?'&#8221; Mark 10:51<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only when we pray according to God&#8217;s will is He pleased to grant our requests (John 15:16).<\/li>\n<li>If God refrains from giving us what we are asking, we should evaluate our prayers.<\/li>\n<li>If we will ask according to His will, we, like Bartimaeus, will receive far more than we anticipated! (Jeremiah 33:3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Thoughts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Experiencing-God-Day---Day-Devotional\/dp\/0805462988\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1313492047&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Experiencing God Day by Day Devotional<\/a> by Henry Blackaby and Richard Blackaby<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then Jesus answered him, &#8216;What do you want Me to do for you?&#8217;&#8221; Mark 10:51 Only when we pray according to God&#8217;s will is He pleased to grant our requests (John 15:16). If God refrains from giving us what we are asking, we should evaluate our prayers. If we will ask according to His will, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,23,28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}