{"id":23287,"date":"2022-10-16T13:16:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T12:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=23287"},"modified":"2022-10-16T13:16:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T12:16:35","slug":"why-do-i-pray","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=why-do-i-pray","title":{"rendered":"Why do I pray?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Gospel<\/u><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Luke 18.1\u20138&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <em>Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke<br \/>\n<\/em><sup>1<\/sup>Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.&nbsp;<sup>2<\/sup>He said, \u2018In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.&nbsp;<sup>3<\/sup>In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, \u201cGrant me justice against my opponent.\u201d&nbsp;<sup>4<\/sup>For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, \u201cThough I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone,&nbsp;<sup>5<\/sup>yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.\u201d&nbsp;<sup>\u20196<\/sup>And the Lord said, \u2018Listen to what the unjust judge says.&nbsp;<sup>7<\/sup>And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?&nbsp;<sup>8<\/sup>I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Luke 18.1\u20138&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke 1Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.&nbsp;2He said, \u2018In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.&nbsp;3In that city there was a widow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[333],"ctc_sermon_series":[361],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[320],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-23287","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-luke","ctc_sermon_series-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_speaker-ian-paul-llm","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/23287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/23287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23289,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/23287\/revisions\/23289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=23287"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=23287"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=23287"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=23287"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=23287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}