{"id":2209,"date":"2007-04-19T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/man-of-prayer"},"modified":"2007-04-19T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:50:27","slug":"man-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/04\/19\/man-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Man of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He<br \/>\nsurely walked in the company of those who had the ear of Jehovah and the freedom of His inner<br \/>\nchamber. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To him, as to all the great men of prayer, the mere thought of the hiding of God&#8217;s face<br \/>\ncreated a dread of unspeakable loneliness, deeper than any arising from other sources of separation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cry, &#8220;My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?&#8221;  (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34), while unique<br \/>\nin its kind, nevertheless was prefigured in those piteous plaints of desolation heard now and then in<br \/>\npsalm and prophecy. And through the imparting of this baptism of prayer the prophet, no doubt,<br \/>\nwas meant to prefigure Him on whose lips the graces of psalmist and prophet dwelt together in<br \/>\nperfect unison to comfort the people of God of all ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He surely walked in the company of those who had the ear of Jehovah and the freedom of His inner chamber. To him, as to all the great men of prayer, the mere thought of the hiding of God&#8217;s face created a dread of unspeakable loneliness, deeper than any arising from other sources of separation&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}