{"id":917,"date":"2010-06-21T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2010\/06\/prayer-for-myself\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T19:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:40:48","slug":"prayer-for-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2010\/06\/prayer-for-myself.html","title":{"rendered":"prayer for myself&#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>\u2026 it feels weird and contrived when I set out to pray for myself; like I should be doing something more constructive\u2026 prayer for other people perhaps. The act of praying for my own needs and wants seems self centered. I am sure there\u2019s some heresy associated with my over scrupulous tendencies. Like the time I was called a Calvinist in the confessional. <\/p>\n<p>Part of it has to do with spiritual laziness I\u2019m sure. Praying for myself would involve an effort to self examine areas in my life that are in most need of prayer and His guidance. I often rationalize this by concluding that God already knows better than me what I want and need\u2026. so why be redundant? Sometimes I just don\u2019t like to pray for myself because what I want is rarely what God has intended for me. I am a poor bull headed daughter of His. <\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the time I prayed for myself and actually got what I prayed for and it turned out I didn\u2019t want it after all. How do you pray \u201cGee, God, thanks for the gift of an answered prayer but please tell me you kept the receipt?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m no great theologian but I think that is just asking to be smote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18613340-8097730039274301206?l=thecrescat.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 it feels weird and contrived when I set out to pray for myself; like I should be doing something more constructive\u2026 prayer for other people perhaps. The act of praying for my own needs and wants seems self centered. I am sure there\u2019s some heresy associated with my over scrupulous tendencies. 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