{"id":3962,"date":"2012-04-25T00:48:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T06:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2012-04-23T19:52:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T01:52:02","slug":"believe-and-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3962","title":{"rendered":"Believe and Forgive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cTherefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.\u00a0 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if you have aught against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive your trespasses\u201d (Mark 11:24-25).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We see in today&#8217;s verses two factors necessary in our \u201cprayer stretch.\u201d We may find the believe part easier than the forgiving. The inability to forgive hinders our prayers.<\/p>\n<p>We want answers when we pray. Faith is a vital part of receiving them. However, an unforgiving spirit will be a barrier.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s time to extend that stretch. We will receive when we are ready to forgive and believe.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray for Virginia Women Active for Christ as they convene for their State meeting\/retreat this weekend and for Elizabeth Hodges, WNAC Director, as she travels to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTherefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.\u00a0 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if you have aught against any: that your Father also which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}