{"id":548,"date":"2023-03-22T18:29:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2023-03-22T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:29:45","slug":"prayer-and-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"PRAYER AND EXPECTATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0<\/span>had a friend make a comment to me last week that needed some reflection.\u00a0\u00a0He was talking about his religious background, having grown up in a Charismatic church.\u00a0\u00a0He now attends a Baptist Church with a fantastic pastor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

During the conversation, <\/span>he noted that when some friends ask for prayer, afterwards they make a comment to the effect of \u201cwhen you pray, you seem to expect something to happen\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0He continued by telling me of several prayer experiences where miracles occurred after he prayed.\u00a0\u00a0Once he was awakened by the Holy Spirit and prompted to drive a distance to someone\u2019s home and pray for them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He did so and arrived in the middle of the night.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Woke them up.\u00a0\u00a0Prayed for them and saw the answer to his prayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He prayed at the Spirit’s direction. Expected God to respond.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Witnessed God\u2019s answer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What grabbed me in the story was that when he prayed, he expected God to answer!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That seems to be Biblical and much the way Jesus prayed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The question came:\u00a0\u00a0When I pray, do I really expect God to act or is it just hopeful words?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0What about you?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u00a0had a friend make a comment to me last week that needed some reflection.\u00a0\u00a0He was talking about his religious background, having grown up in a Charismatic church.\u00a0\u00a0He now attends a Baptist Church with a fantastic pastor. During the conversation, he noted that when some friends ask for prayer, afterwards they make a comment to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_front_end_style_editor":"no","ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"off","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kingdom-living","category-real-church","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}