{"id":169,"date":"2023-03-24T23:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/?p=169"},"modified":"2023-03-24T23:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:16:14","slug":"prayer-concerning-the-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/prayers\/prayer-concerning-the-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Concerning the Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Great Spirit, hear my prayer,<br \/>\nAs I read the sacred words of Deuteronomy,<br \/>\nI am reminded of the importance of Your commandments,<br \/>\nTo love You with all our heart, soul, and strength.<\/p>\n<p>Help us to remember these words,<br \/>\nTo teach them to our children and our grandchildren,<br \/>\nTo talk about them when we sit at home,<br \/>\nWhen we walk along the way,<br \/>\nWhen we lie down, and when we rise up.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>May Your commandments be a part of our daily lives,<br \/>\nGuiding us in all that we do,<br \/>\nAnd reminding us of Your great love for us.<\/p>\n<p>May we write them on our hearts,<br \/>\nAnd bind them as a sign upon our hands,<br \/>\nSo that we may always remember Your ways,<br \/>\nAnd walk in Your path of righteousness.<\/p>\n<p>Great Spirit, bless us with Your wisdom,<br \/>\nAnd help us to follow Your commandments,<br \/>\nSo that we may live lives that honor You,<br \/>\nAnd bear witness to Your love and Your truth.<\/p>\n<p>In the name of the Great Spirit, the Merciful Son, and the Holy Spirit. Aho.<\/p>\n<p>(compare Deuteronomy 6:4\u20139)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Great Spirit, hear my prayer, As I read the sacred words of Deuteronomy, I am reminded of the importance of Your commandments, To love You with all our heart, soul, and strength. Help us to remember these words, To teach them to our children and our grandchildren, To talk about them when we sit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flippress.com\/firstnations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}