{"id":5315,"date":"2010-01-17T08:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T08:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/a-favorite-prayer.html"},"modified":"2010-01-17T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T08:33:51","slug":"a-favorite-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/a-favorite-prayer.html","title":{"rendered":"A Favorite Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is one of my favorite prayers from The Book of Common Prayer, and it was in our daily prayers this morning. It focuses on prayers of petition, and this weekend in our prayers for Haiti this prayer might be an encouragement:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>Almighty God, who has promised to hear the petitions of those who ask in your Son&#8217;s Name:&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>We beseech you mercifully to incline your ear to us who have made our prayers and supplications to you;&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to your will, we may effectually obtain,&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>to the relief of our necessity,&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>and to the setting forth of your glory.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>Through Jesus Christ our Lord. 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