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Matthew 4:1-7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Prayer for the day: Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n ~ Tim Heishman, National Youth Conference Coordinator<\/p>\n Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year’s\u00a0Lenten Devotional\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>written by Duane Grady, pastor of Cedar Lake Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>in print and E-Book formats). Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Duane’s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em>his\u00a0<\/em>blog.<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 4:1-7 Prayer for the day: Dear God, help us to take time for prayer so that we have the strength we need to follow you through whatever life brings. Question for reflection: In what area of your life are you experiencing temptation? Would you be willing to face your temptation by trying a short<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[440,687,921,1109,1137],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-fasting","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-strength","tag-temptation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDear God, help us to take time for prayer so that we have the strength we need to follow you through whatever life brings.
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\nIn what area of your life are you experiencing temptation? Would you be willing to face your temptation by trying a short period of prayer and fasting, and see what God will do?<\/p>\n