{"id":10427,"date":"2018-09-23T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2018-09-23T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:33:16","slug":"pray-before-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10427\/pray-before-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray before Meals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I love this Pastor John, from your recent email: \u201cWait to pray until the Spirit leads you to pray, and say in prayer only what you are moved by the Spirit to say.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In the church there is always a form like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">-opening prayer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">-pray before the sermon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">-pray after the sermon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">-closing prayer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">-pray for food to eat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a question about this, Pastor John.\u00a0 Are we ought to pray before we eat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Leika<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Leika.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>There is no \u201cought to\u201d in the kingdom of God, Leika.\u00a0 There is only liberty.\u00a0 You are free to pray off the Spirit leads you to pray, and you are free not to, if the Spirit does not lead you to pray.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for the question.\u00a0 God bless you and yours.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this Pastor John, from your recent email: \u201cWait to pray until the Spirit leads you to pray, and say in prayer only what you are moved by the Spirit to say.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In the church there is always a form like: -opening prayer -pray before the sermon -pray after the sermon -closing prayer -pray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}