{"id":493,"date":"2014-09-16T15:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=493"},"modified":"2014-09-16T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:14:18","slug":"medicine-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Medicine and Faith&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Many people have come to me and with prayer and fasting they were healed. But now the Lord doesn&#8217;t hear me so that I learn about medicines and doctors and be lenient with others. I also read the letters of St.Nectarios and I saw how much he, such a great saint, paid attention to the doctors and medicines! I am just a poor ascetic who has grown old in the wilderness and I wanted to heal only through faith. But now I, too, and learning that both medicines and grace are necessary.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Ephraim of Arizona<br \/>\n~My Elder Joseph<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/178243_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-494\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/178243_t.jpg\" alt=\"178243_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Many people have come to me and with prayer and fasting they were healed. But now the Lord doesn&#8217;t hear me so that I learn about medicines and doctors and be lenient with others. I also read the letters of St.Nectarios and I saw how much he, such a great saint, paid attention to the [&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-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}