{"id":13523,"date":"2026-10-18T19:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=13523"},"modified":"2026-10-18T19:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:43:27","slug":"praying-regularly-always-yields-1-of-2-tuesday-october-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/praying-regularly-always-yields-1-of-2-tuesday-october-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying Regularly Always Yields (1 of 2)\u00a0&#8211; Tuesday, October 20, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>John 14:16<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s conversing with a trusted Friend;<br \/>\nHis smiling is what I envision.<br \/>\nLonging for our time apart,<br \/>\nTo talk and to hear my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Genuine friendship is a great treasure. Having someone who makes you feel valued and appreciated is priceless.\u00a0 It\u2019s a relationship that every Christian has with Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit, which He first declared to His disciples when He said: \u201cHenceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends\u201d (John 15:15).\u00a0 Earlier in John 14:16, Jesus had assured them that not even His absence would be able to sever their relationship, but that it would continue through the indwelling Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus&#8217; promise to His disciples is the same for us. Hence, as Christians, we\u2019ll never need to consider ourselves friendless or without companionship.\u00a0 Prayer is the perfect means to \u201cDraw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you\u201d (James 4:8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever \u2013 John 14:16 It\u2019s conversing with a trusted Friend; His smiling is what I envision. Longing for our time apart, To talk and to hear my heart. Genuine friendship is a great treasure. Having &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/praying-regularly-always-yields-1-of-2-tuesday-october-20-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Praying Regularly Always Yields (1 of 2)\u00a0&#8211; Tuesday, October 20, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13526,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13523\/revisions\/13526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}