{"id":2590,"date":"2008-10-15T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2008\/10\/they-say\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:30:40","slug":"they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2008\/10\/they-say.html","title":{"rendered":"they say&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i26.photobucket.com\/albums\/c145\/solekat205\/132386980_ce80a33e82_o.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 God knows your every need and heart\u2019s desire, there is no aspect of inner self that is sheilded from His gaze. When you pray He knows what you want even before you ask for it. He knows what you need even if you <em>don\u2019t<\/em> ask for it. He knows when your prayers are sincere or when they are a vain gesture. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when I pray this \u2018awareness\u2019 supresses me. The enormity of God overwhelms me.<\/p>\n<p>What can I possibly offer in way of prayers and supplications if He already knows what I am about to ask and has already decided its outcome? <\/p>\n<p>The prayers I recite from rote feel dry but left on my own in prayer I wander.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18613340-5629200181008411604?l=thecrescat.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 God knows your every need and heart\u2019s desire, there is no aspect of inner self that is sheilded from His gaze. 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