{"id":18576,"date":"2025-03-15T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=18576"},"modified":"2025-02-25T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:01:16","slug":"prayer-for-the-week-saturday-15th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/prayer-for-the-week-saturday-15th-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the Week &#8211; Saturday 15th March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/publicity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18571\" src=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/publicity-120x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/publicity-120x300.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/publicity-410x1024.jpg 410w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/publicity-768x1920.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/publicity-614x1536.jpg 614w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/publicity.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The MWiB motto is <em>\u201cfor women, for justice, for Christ\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This past week I was invited to give a talk to one of our MWiB groups in my circuit. I like going and meeting fellow ladies and spending time in fellowship with them, share their stories of life experiences<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t difficult to choose a theme, as I flicked through the pages of Women of the Bible, the victorious, the victims, the virtuous, and the vicious; it\u2019s an interesting concept<\/p>\n<p>Even now in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, women still have to make their voices heard, be seen, battle against prejudice, unfairness and misogyny<\/p>\n<p>Gracious God, we think of Mary, Jesus\u2018 mother; Mary Magdalene, Ruth, Miriam; of Joanna, of the Samaritan woman; of Priscilla, Pheobe, Lydia; the Marys\u2019 at the foot of the cross; the wife of Job, Pilate\u2019s wife, Joanna and those women too many to mention.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, we pray for women everywhere, who pave the way, and stand up for justice and equality. May women, who work tirelessly for the benefit of all, seek the recognition they deserve in every walk of life, job or situation<\/p>\n<p>Our prayers given for your glory. Amen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hazel Jackson \u2013 MWiB Ambassador for Lincolnshire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MWiB motto is \u201cfor women, for justice, for Christ\u201d This past week I was invited to give a talk to one of our MWiB groups in my circuit. I like going and meeting fellow ladies and spending time in fellowship with them, share their stories of life experiences It wasn\u2019t difficult to choose a theme, as I flicked through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-for-the-week"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 08:33:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}