{"id":2623,"date":"2017-04-04T13:49:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:28:31","slug":"praying-the-promises-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"Praying the Promises of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tears.prayer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2411\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tears.prayer-300x263.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tears.prayer-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tears.prayer.png 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we pray back to God His own promises given us in the Bible, Spurgeon said, we are <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cholding God to his word.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He further says, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cMy brother, if you have a divine promise, you need not plead it with an \u2018if\u2019 in it; you may plead with a certainty. If for the mercy which you are now asking, you have God\u2019s solemnly pledged word, there will scarce be any room for the caution about submission to his will. You know his will: that will is the promise; plead it. Do not give him rest until he fulfil it. He meant to fulfil it, or else he would not have given it \u2026 when he speaks, he speaks because he means to act.\u201d<\/span> \u2013C.H. Spurgeon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spurgeon.org\/sermons\/0700.php\">Order and Argument in Prayer<\/a>, July 15, 1886)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we pray back to God His own promises given us in the Bible, Spurgeon said, we are \u201cholding God to his word.\u201d He further says, \u201cMy brother, if you have a divine promise, you need not plead it with an \u2018if\u2019 in it; you may plead with a certainty. If for the mercy which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-Gj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}