{"id":883,"date":"2009-01-29T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2009-01-29T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T05:06:00","slug":"do-you-have-an-urgency-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/do-you-have-an-urgency-to-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have an urgency to pray?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can live life pretty well without prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Even as a Christian, I can do just about everything without asking for God&#8217;s help. I have no urgency to pray. When there is a crisis &#8211; health problems, major decisions, a special need such as a job &#8211; then the need for prayer is apparent.<\/p>\n<p>But prayer should not be about whether or not I need God&#8217;s help to determine whether or not I pray.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer is about wanting a richer and more meaningful life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that a life of greater depth and a more satisfying relationship with God can only be attained if I pray.<\/p>\n<p>Without prayer, I can still enjoy my life. But I can only see life one dimensional, a little blurry, from a worldly point of view.<\/p>\n<p>When I sit down with God in prayer, I sense a filling of my spirit, a thirst being quenched yet not completely satisfied. There continues a beckoning to a deeper communion.<\/p>\n<p>Having a praying life allows me to see my life through a sharper lens. I understand circumstances better, I am more in tune to God&#8217;s will, and I have more motivation to live a better life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can live life pretty well without prayer. Even as a Christian, I can do just about everything without asking for God&#8217;s help. I have no urgency to pray. When there is a crisis &#8211; health problems, major decisions, a special need such as a job &#8211; then the need for prayer is apparent. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}