{"id":260,"date":"2008-02-19T11:01:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=260"},"modified":"2008-02-19T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T18:01:46","slug":"let-me-ask-you-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Let me ask you something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normaltext\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2129272-b28236b13473995a.jpg\" title=\"2129272-b28236b13473995a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2129272-b28236b13473995a.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"2129272-b28236b13473995a.jpg\" \/><\/a>Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prays for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?<br \/>\n<\/font><\/span><strong><font color=\"#006699\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span class=\"arialbold11blue\">From the movie: <span style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\" id=\"lw_1203443472_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Evan Almighty<\/span> <\/span><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/strong><span class=\"arialnorm10blue\"><font size=\"2\" color=\"#006699\" face=\"Arial\">Written by Steve Oedekerk<\/font><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prays for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=260\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Let me ask you something\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wisdom-quotes","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}