{"id":1716,"date":"2026-09-10T20:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:57:59","slug":"opening-prayer-7-20-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/opening-prayer-7-20-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Prayer 7\/20 am"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Connor Lad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holy God,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for bringing us together today. Some of us arrive excited, some exhausted, some carrying questions or worries we&nbsp;can&#8217;t&nbsp;even put into words. But wherever we come from, you promise to be our refuge and strength, an ever-present help when life feels overwhelming.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the world shakes around us, help us to be still and remember that you are God. When things&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;go the way we&nbsp;hoped, teach us to rejoice\u2014not because everything is perfect, but because you are faithful, and your love never lets us go.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord, today we pray that you will light a spark in each of us. Spark our curiosity. Spark our courage. Spark our compassion. Spark our faith. Let that one small spark&nbsp;grow&nbsp;into a fire that shines with your hope, your joy, and your love wherever we go.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open our hearts to your Word, our voices to your praise, and our lives to your Spirit. Be present among us and remind us that even one spark can change everything when it is lit by you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the name of Jesus, we pray.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Connor Lad Holy God,&nbsp; Thank you for bringing us together today. Some of us arrive excited, some exhausted, some carrying questions or worries we&nbsp;can&#8217;t&nbsp;even put into words. But wherever we come from, you promise to be our refuge and strength, an ever-present help when life feels overwhelming.\u202f&nbsp; When the world shakes around us, help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[77,85,79],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","tag-connor-lad","tag-opening-prayer","tag-spark"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}