{"id":193303100,"date":"2009-09-21T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundbyyou.tumblr.com\/post\/193303100"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:18:11","slug":"prayer-rubs-us-against-god-our-internal-alignment-changes-the-magnetic-attraction-of-christ-draws-us-to-some-things-and-pushes-us-away-from-others-we-retain-our-individuality-we-are-still-totally-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=193303100","title":{"rendered":"Prayer rubs us against God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer rubs us against God.  Our internal alignment changes.  The magnetic attraction of Christ draws us to some things and pushes us away from others.  We retain our individuality; we are still totally ourselves &#8230; but with a new polarity.  Contact with God makes you &#8211; yes, you &#8211; godly.  His will and your will begin to dovetail, to blend.  The good which you want and the good which God wills mesh.<br \/><a>Why Don&#8217;t I Get What I Pray For?<\/a> by John Cowart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer rubs us against God. Our internal alignment changes. The magnetic attraction of Christ draws us to some things and pushes us away from others. We retain our individuality; we are still totally ourselves &#8230; but with a new polarity. Contact with God makes you &#8211; yes, you &#8211; godly. His will and your will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,264],"tags":[64,128,176,245],"class_list":["post-193303100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-ponderings","tag-christ","tag-john-cowart","tag-prayer","tag-why-dont-i-get-what-i-pray-for"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193303100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193303100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193303100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893191,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193303100\/revisions\/216893191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193303100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193303100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193303100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}