{"id":53,"date":"2015-12-29T23:21:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T04:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/test_wp\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2022-07-11T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T23:24:00","slug":"prayer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"About Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.\u201d &#8211; Philip Yancey<\/p>\n<p>Prayer is at the centre of the spiritual life of a Christian. It is connecting and communicating with God. It is the essence of our relationship with God. Prayer is a privilege, not a duty. Like all good things it requires some discipline.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglican Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Alternative Services provide many useful prayer resources for corporate prayer in worship services and personal prayer.<\/p>\n<p>However, beyond worship services there are as many ways of praying as there are individuals. Our personalities and life experiences influence how we pray, and there are many different Types of Christian Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/resources\/praying-congregations\/\">Praying Congregations Video Series<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/prayer\/types-of-christian-prayer\/\">Types of Christian Prayer<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/prayer\/online-sources\/\">Online Sources for Daily Prayer<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/prayers-for-canadian-synod\/\">Prayers for Canadian Synod<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/corporate-stewardship-prayers\/\">Corporate Stewardship Prayers<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/personal-stewardship-prayers\/\">Personal Stewardship Prayers<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/prayer\/prayer-service-stewardship-a-way-of-life\/\">Prayer Service &#8211; Stewardship, A Way of Life<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/prayer\/collected-prayers\/\">Collected Prayers<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/docs\/AdventPrayersforaHousehold2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advent Prayers for a Household<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.\u201d &#8211; Philip Yancey Prayer is at the centre of the spiritual life of a Christian. It is connecting and communicating with God. It is the essence of our relationship with God. Prayer is a privilege, not a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/prayer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Prayer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6737,"href":"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/6737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglicanprayer.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}