{"id":1449,"date":"2013-06-24T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2013-06-23T22:20:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:20:36","slug":"1449","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"SUFFERING LIKE PAUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f8\/The_Apostle_Paul_-_Rembrandt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File:The Apostle Paul - Rembrandt.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f8\/The_Apostle_Paul_-_Rembrandt.jpg\/473px-The_Apostle_Paul_-_Rembrandt.jpg\" width=\"473\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is often missed, but should be underscored: Paul <em>needed<\/em> the prayers of others (II Cor. 1:8-11).\u00a0 He was \u201cdespairing even of life.\u201d\u00a0 At another low moment, he greatly benefited from the encouragement of Titus (II Cor. 7:6).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have often shared the following to Christians who are so deeply troubled they can&#8217;t even muster the motivation to pray: \u00a0Don&#8217;t worry.\u00a0 Simply ask others to pray for you.\u00a0 Give us the privilege of holding you up.\u00a0 You may need to return the favor someday!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is often missed, but should be underscored: Paul needed the prayers of others (II Cor. 1:8-11).\u00a0 He was \u201cdespairing even of life.\u201d\u00a0 At another low moment, he greatly benefited from the encouragement of Titus (II Cor. 7:6).\u00a0 I have often shared the following to Christians who are so deeply troubled they can&#8217;t even muster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostle-paul","category-prayer","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}