{"id":18578,"date":"2025-03-22T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=18578"},"modified":"2025-02-25T19:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:02:53","slug":"prayer-for-the-week-saturday-22nd-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/prayer-for-the-week-saturday-22nd-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the Week &#8211; Saturday 22nd March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cumbria2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18570\" src=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cumbria2-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cumbria2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cumbria2-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cumbria2-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cumbria2-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cumbria2-900x675.png 900w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cumbria2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John 14:27<\/p>\n<p><em>Peace, I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Peace\u2026peace and quiet; isn\u2019t it lovely to sit and ponder, to read or just look out of the window at the garden. How fortunate we are to be able to do just that.. imagine living in a war zone, constant thundering sounds, bombs, destruction and having nowhere to escape<\/p>\n<p>There was programme on TV recently where the presenter was walking along a well-known mountain path absorbing the quiet and the scenery as he went along. I found it restful just watching it, being in the moment of the beautiful scenery, and the mountain which seemed to wrap itself around the presenter<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when we are crushed by life\u2019s problems, situations overwhelm us, it\u2019s easier said than done, to ponder, sit quietly, prayerfully even, to take stock and allow God to shoulder the load<\/p>\n<p>Lord, we hear your voice say \u201ccome unto me and rest\u201d we readily come to you, seek your peace, lay our weary heads down. We bring our sorrows and sadness, our fears and troubles\u2026and we give thanks for the resting place we always find in you. In Jesus name. 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>John 14:27 Peace, I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. Peace\u2026peace and quiet; isn\u2019t it lovely to sit and ponder, to read or just look out of the window at the garden. How fortunate we are [&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-18578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-for-the-week"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 08:35:04","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\/18578","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=18578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}