{"id":2225,"date":"2015-06-19T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2015-06-19T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:25:00","slug":"a-prayer-for-emmanuel-a-m-e-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2015\/06\/a-prayer-for-emmanuel-a-m-e-church.html","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Emmanuel A.M.E. Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>&#8220;They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.&#8221; (Matthew 1:23)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Father,<\/p>\n<p>Our hearts sorrow deeply for the nine victims of the massacre\u00a0shootings at Emmanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A pastor, a bible teacher, a school teacher, a coach, church members and citizens are now out of our reach but safe in Your arms.\u00a0Please bring comfort to the bereaved in this church, in their city, state and in our country.<\/p>\n<p>We come against racial bigotry in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, forgive us as a nation! Teach us to teach our children to love and honor one another. Integrate your Church to unity, we cry, so we may stand together.<\/p>\n<p>In Jesus&#8217; Name Amen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us. (Colossians 3:11)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.&#8221; (Matthew 1:23) Father, Our hearts sorrow deeply for the nine victims of the massacre\u00a0shootings at Emmanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A pastor, a bible teacher, a school teacher, a coach, church members and citizens are now out of our reach but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,24,7,4,25,3],"tags":[1183,1182,880,1185,1186,1187,858,1184],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-prayer","category-current-events","category-daily-prayer","category-god","category-jesus","category-prayer","tag-charleston","tag-church-shootings","tag-murder","tag-our-country","tag-racial-tension","tag-raciism","tag-reconciliation","tag-south-carolina"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Prayer for Emmanuel A.M.E. 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