{"id":723,"date":"2014-11-29T18:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=723"},"modified":"2014-11-29T18:43:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:43:45","slug":"benefit-from-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Benefit from Trials&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s how we should think always. And that&#8217;s how we should live toward difficulties and tragedies. We should see them all as opportunities for prayer, for approaching God. That&#8217;s the secret: how the man of God will transform everything into prayer. That&#8217;s what St. Paul the Apostle means when he says I rejoice in my sufferings, in all the tribulations he encountered. This is how sanctfiication takes place. May God grant this to us. I asked for this fervently in my prayer.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Porphyrios<br \/>\n~Wounded by Love<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/189440_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-724\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/189440_t.jpg\" alt=\"189440_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s how we should think always. And that&#8217;s how we should live toward difficulties and tragedies. We should see them all as opportunities for prayer, for approaching God. That&#8217;s the secret: how the man of God will transform everything into prayer. That&#8217;s what St. Paul the Apostle means when he says I rejoice in my [&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-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}