{"id":6695,"date":"2025-02-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2025-02-15T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:21:42","slug":"prayer-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6695","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Short and sweet thought for the week\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-708x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6696\" width=\"198\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-768x1110.jpg 768w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-600x867.jpg 600w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-1063x1536.jpg 1063w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-1417x2048.jpg 1417w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-1320x1908.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prayer-Partner-churchartpro-scaled.jpg 1771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>We all have times when hurt and pain overwhelm us. Perhaps it\u2019s an injustice with no recourse, a sadness that lingers, a sorrow that floods our soul, or a wound that will not heal. We can\u2019t make sense of what is happening. We are too emotionally, mentally, and physically exhausted to even pray. That\u2019s when it\u2019s nice to have a caring prayer partner who discerns exactly how we feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comforts me to know that the Holy Spirit is my prayer partner. The brief words I wearily utter may not adequately express how I feel but the Holy Spirit understands and intercedes for me (Romans 8: 26-27). Praise God for this amazing gift!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cWe do not know what we ought to pay for, but the Spirit intercedes<\/em><br><em>for us with groans that words cannot express.&#8221; ~Romans 8:26<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short and sweet thought for the week\u2026 We all have times when hurt and pain overwhelm us. Perhaps it\u2019s an injustice with no recourse, a sadness that lingers, a sorrow that floods our soul, or a wound that will not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6695\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}