{"id":19572,"date":"2026-10-24T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=19572"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:23:34","slug":"prayer-for-the-week-saturday-24th-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/prayer-for-the-week-saturday-24th-october-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the Week &#8211; Saturday 24th October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oct4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19573\" src=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oct4-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oct4-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oct4.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, we shared the story of Jesus walking on water, and let\u2019s not forget that Peter walked on the water too.\u00a0 What a wow moment it must have been for Peter as he took that first step onto the waves.\u00a0 Perhaps frightening and exhilarating too, but he was ok as long as he remembered Jesus said \u201che could\u201d. But I wonder how Jesus felt as he watched Peter step out of the safety of the boat and put his \u201cfaith\u201d into action.\u00a0 I wonder, was it as joyous as when we saw our own children let go of whatever was their safety net, furniture, toy, hand and take their first step on their own, or was it even more so?\u00a0 No doubt we all admit to that feeling of fear whenever we take those first few steps of faith into what as yet we do not know.<\/p>\n<p>Payer:\u00a0 Lord, we so like the safety of the boat, the comfort of the usual, to step out into something new can be frightening beyond words.\u00a0 So, Lord give us courage to do what you ask, even if it is strange to us, just as Peter stepped out in faith when you called him to come to you from the boat. Thank you that you were there to save him when his faith faltered.\u00a0 Thank you that you call us to new things with you every day, give us the courage of Peter when you call us to follow you.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Annetta\u00a0 Newcastle District<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A few weeks ago, we shared the story of Jesus walking on water, and let\u2019s not forget that Peter walked on the water too.\u00a0 What a wow moment it must have been for Peter as he took that first step onto the waves.\u00a0 Perhaps frightening and exhilarating too, but he was ok as long as he remembered Jesus said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","category-prayer-for-the-week"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572","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=19572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19645,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572\/revisions\/19645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}