{"id":161,"date":"2014-06-06T11:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=161"},"modified":"2014-06-06T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:46:32","slug":"prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Prayer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #404040;\">&#8220;He would say, &#8216;Prayer helps the world so much \u2013 when there is heartfelt compassion of course. I don&#8217;t feel someone else&#8217;s pain when I&#8217;m sitting comfortably with my legs crossed and have every comfort and convenience.&#8217; \u00a0The elder&#8217;s prayer was accompanied by fasting, toil, prostrations, and most importantly, humility. He used to say, &#8216;We should ask humbly. I say my God I&#8217;m a brute. Have mercy on me and on the whole world, too.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\">Elder Paisios<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\">~Elder Paisios of Mount Athos<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child , the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.&#8221;<br \/>\nMatthew 18:4<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/170033_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-162\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/170033_t.jpg\" alt=\"170033_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He would say, &#8216;Prayer helps the world so much \u2013 when there is heartfelt compassion of course. I don&#8217;t feel someone else&#8217;s pain when I&#8217;m sitting comfortably with my legs crossed and have every comfort and convenience.&#8217; \u00a0The elder&#8217;s prayer was accompanied by fasting, toil, prostrations, and most importantly, humility. He used to say, &#8216;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}