{"id":647,"date":"2007-03-22T22:15:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T22:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=647"},"modified":"2007-03-22T22:15:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T22:15:48","slug":"our-father-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Our Father, in heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?<br \/>\nA: The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called The Lord&#8217;s Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What doth the preface of the Lord&#8217;s prayer teach us?<br \/>\nA: The preface of the Lord&#8217;s prayer which is, Our Father which art in heaven, teacheth us to draw near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as children to a father, able and ready to help us; and that we should pray with and for others.<\/p>\n<p>(Questions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortercatechism.com\/resources\/wsc\/wsc_099.html\">XCIX<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortercatechism.com\/resources\/wsc\/wsc_100.html\">C<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortercatechism.com\/\">Westminster Shorter Catechism<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer? A: The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called The Lord&#8217;s Prayer. Q: What doth the preface of the Lord&#8217;s prayer&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=647\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catechism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}