{"id":60,"date":"2014-05-05T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=60"},"modified":"2014-05-06T01:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T01:19:08","slug":"intercession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Intercession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Suffer and pray to God for your children. By your long-suffering you will hopefully bring them little by little to feel some shame and with your prayer you will receive help from the Almighty in clearing. up your children&#8217;s hearts. But first you must repent before him for not teaching your children. His law before anything else.&#8221;<br \/>\nSt. Nikolai Velimirovich<br \/>\n~Missionary Letters Vol. 3<br \/>\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br \/>\n&#8220;All of this [spiritual blessings] was the fruit of our holy Geronda&#8217;s prayers, teaching, and wise discipline. It was because of his tears that he shed for us. He himself admitted it. When they asked him, &#8220;Geronda, why are you fasting so strictly after being so exhausted?&#8221; He answered, &#8220;Because, my child, I want to struggle so that our good God will give his grace to all of you.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Joseph the Hesychast<br \/>\n~ My Elder Joseph the Hesychast<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0505.jpg\" alt=\"0505\" width=\"200\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Suffer and pray to God for your children. By your long-suffering you will hopefully bring them little by little to feel some shame and with your prayer you will receive help from the Almighty in clearing. up your children&#8217;s hearts. But first you must repent before him for not teaching your children. His law before [&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-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}