{"id":51206,"date":"2022-08-17T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51206"},"modified":"2022-08-17T03:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T08:02:31","slug":"the-danger-of-prayerlessness-in-counseling-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51206","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Prayerlessness in Counseling Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: This week&rsquo;s mini-series on the Grace and Truth Blog explores potential failures in biblical counseling. In this second article, Shannon McCoy considers the danger of prayerlessness in biblical counseling. In other contributions to the series, Ellen Dykas shares three blind spots to which biblical counselors can fall prey, and Gary Hallquist offers six truths for mind renewal when&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2022\/08\/17\/prayerlessness-in-the-counseling-sessions\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people seeking counsel for specific reasons are disconnected from God in some way. This makes praying a real struggle. Either they haven\u2019t prayed about it, don\u2019t know what or how to pray about it, or feel like their prayers are going no further than the ceiling. Prayerlessness is a scourge in counselees\u2019 lives. If they had to present evidence of their prayer life in a court of law, there would be very little to go on. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":51208,"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":[279],"tags":[1179,101,481,3527,116,5004,5005,3761],"class_list":["post-51206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-god-the-father","tag-hope","tag-peace","tag-power","tag-prayer","tag-prayerlessness","tag-praying","tag-the-lords-prayer","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\/2022\/08\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-11.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51206","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51209,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51206\/revisions\/51209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}