{"id":40323,"date":"2021-10-21T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=40323"},"modified":"2021-10-21T00:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:18:55","slug":"a-la-carte-october-21-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=40323","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grace and peace to you on this fine day.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/if-just-one-person-returned\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">If Just One Person Returned<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keylife.org\/articles\/alex-early-why-i-quit-praying-for-god-to-use-me\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Why I Quit Praying for God to \u201cUse Me\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Alex Early: &#8220;I became a Christian at the age of 15 and knew I was called into vocational ministry within 90 days. So, one prayer that I picked up on by leaders around me and started praying myself was this\u2014&#8217;God, please use me in this world for your glory and our joy.&#8217; It sounds right and even biblical. Yet, to be quite honest, I didn\u2019t pray that prayer from a heart that was content with God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/sylviaschroeder.com\/the-prayer-stump\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Prayer Stump<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I appreciate this one. &#8220;My husband chiseled out what he calls a prayer stump from the trunk of a fallen tree. Its back behind our house where he is hidden from human eyes. It\u2019s an uncomfortable seat, an earthly throne of sorts, where he brings our children and grandchildren to a much higher and greater Throne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/gentlereformation.com\/2021\/10\/20\/why-5\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">5 Reasons We Don&#8217;t Pray<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of us feel as though we have &#8216;arrived&#8217; when it comes to prayerful communion with our heavenly Father\u2014but few of us do the searching work of pondering why that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace and peace to you on this fine day. (Yesterday on the blog If Just One Person Returned) Why I Quit Praying for God to \u201cUse Me\u201d Alex Early: \u201cI became a Christian at the age of 15 and knew I was called into vocational ministry within 90 days. So, one prayer that I picked up on by leaders around me and started praying myself was this\u2014\u2019God, please use me in this world for your glory and our joy.\u2019 It \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":40331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-40323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-a-la-carte","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-THURS20b_0-3-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40333,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40323\/revisions\/40333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}