{"id":2161,"date":"2012-04-24T21:33:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2012-04-24T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:33:41","slug":"praying-to-our-triune-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/praying-to-our-triune-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying to Our Triune God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know I love all things British (cf Harry Potter, the word FORTNIGHT, Et al) and should not be surprised to learn that a Brit has (quietly) had a tremendous influence on me and on Christ Community. John Stott was a wonderful person and Christian who went to be with Christ last summer. <\/p>\n<p>This Sunday we will look together into the Scripture&#8217;s teaching on &#8220;Our Triune God&#8221;. Consider praying Stott&#8217;s morning prayer in preparation for Sunday. <\/p>\n<p><em>Good morning heavenly Father,<br \/>\ngood morning Lord Jesus,<br \/>\ngood morning Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Heavenly Father, I worship you as the creator and sustainer of the universe.<br \/>\nLord Jesus, I worship you, Savior and Lord of the world.<br \/>\nHoly Spirit, I worship you, sanctifier of the people of God.<\/p>\n<p>Glory to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Heavenly Father, I pray that I may live this day in your presence<br \/>\nand please you more and more.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.<\/p>\n<p>Holy Spirit, I pray that this day you will fill me with yourself and cause your fruit to ripen in my life:<br \/>\nlove, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.<\/p>\n<p>Holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, three persons in one God,<br \/>\nhave mercy upon me. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John Stott, quoted in Basic Christian: The Inside Story of John Stott<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/praying-to-our-triune-god\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know I love all things British (cf Harry Potter, the word FORTNIGHT, Et al) and should not be surprised to learn that a Brit has (quietly) had a tremendous influence on me and on Christ Community. John Stott was a wonderful person and Christian who went to be with Christ last summer. <\/p>\n<p>This [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-yR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}