{"id":357,"date":"2011-05-05T05:46:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T09:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/simplelife\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-05-04T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:48:22","slug":"take-time-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/simplelife\/2011\/05\/take-time-to-pray.html","title":{"rendered":"Take time to pray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/234\/2011\/05\/350-National-Day-of-Prayer-by-Just-Say-KB.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-361\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/234\/2011\/05\/350-National-Day-of-Prayer-by-Just-Say-KB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Coming together to pray all during the day has become important to Christians each year on the first Thursday of May which became the National Day of Prayer in 1988. \u00a0All over the nation and all through the day, men, women and children will stop today to pray alone, in small groups and large gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/simplelife\/files\/2011\/05\/NATIONAL-DAY-OF-PRAYER-5-by-UZI-YHWH.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-364 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/simplelife\/files\/2011\/05\/NATIONAL-DAY-OF-PRAYER-5-by-UZI-YHWH.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/234\/2011\/05\/NATIONAL-DAY-OF-PRAYER-6-by-UZI-YHWH.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-365\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/234\/2011\/05\/NATIONAL-DAY-OF-PRAYER-6-by-UZI-YHWH.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a time to seek God for the healing of our nation and our hearts. \u00a0Honorary Chair for the National Day of Prayer Task Force, Joni Tada wrote,<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s covenant afresh to pray for America and what goes on in our nation\u2019s capital.\u00a0 Because if you and I don\u2019t cry out to God, then shame on us \u2013 the very monuments and memorials in Washington DC are crying out to God!\u00a0 The tallest memorial in that city is already praising the greatness of God:\u00a0 inscribed on the eastern face of the Washington Monument are these simple words carved in stone: Laus Deo.\u00a0 It\u2019s Latin and it literally means &#8216;Praise God!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/234\/2011\/05\/National-Day-of-Prayer-by-CharlesMedia.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-358\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/234\/2011\/05\/National-Day-of-Prayer-by-CharlesMedia.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Whether morning, evening or night set aside a time today to pray for each other and for our nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Photo by CharlesMedia <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming together to pray all during the day has become important to Christians each year on the first Thursday of May which became the National Day of Prayer in 1988. \u00a0All over the nation and all through the day, men, women and children will stop today to pray alone, in small groups and large gatherings.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,40,10,41],"tags":[21,688,699,701,82,57,692,700],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-church","category-faith","category-inspirational","category-spirituality","tag-christian","tag-christianity","tag-faith","tag-inspiration","tag-national-day-of-prayer","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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