{"id":216,"date":"2008-03-05T23:50:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T03:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2008-03-13T19:59:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T23:59:25","slug":"prayer-for-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_6635.JPG\" alt=\"img_6635.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lord, I lift my friend\u00c2\u00a0to Your throne of mercy;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I know you see her sad life torn apart.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You feel the pain she&#8217;s buried deep within;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You hold the key to her locked away heart.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">God, You know the pain inside there is brutal,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And endlessly filled with a fresh supply &#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It seems too much for\u00c2\u00a0one human to handle,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yet even now within I sense Your reply.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes, child, some things you cannot understand,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And what I allow\u00c2\u00a0may seem\u00c2\u00a0unkind and cruel;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But my grace is\u00c2\u00a0enough for anyone&#8217;s life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Jesus\u00c2\u00a0 knows\u00c2\u00a0their pain, has felt it in full.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, God, give my friend strength to reach out to Him,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Help her open her heart and release everything<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Into the hands of her loving Redeemer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Please give her the grace all her problems to bring.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Let faith rise within, e&#8217;en but a mustard seed\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Is all that we need to believe and be saved!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">So, please God, in her sad sickness please come,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00c2\u00a0Open her eyes to the forgiveness you gave.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00c2\u00a0I ask you, dear God, to behold that small seed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Perhaps buried deep in rejection and loss,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There glistens some hopeful desire to believe;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That will bring her to You, no matter the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, I lift my friend\u00c2\u00a0to Your throne of mercy; I know you see her sad life torn apart. You feel the pain she&#8217;s buried deep within; You hold the key to her locked away heart. &nbsp; God, You know the pain inside there is brutal, And endlessly filled with a fresh supply &#8230; It seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}