{"id":5328,"date":"2018-08-26T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T16:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2018-08-19T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:30:21","slug":"elder-ephraim-of-arizona-on-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5328","title":{"rendered":"Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fbk3r\" data-offset-key=\"5kg4h-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5kg4h-0-0\">&#8220;Prayer is one of the foremost and strongest powers that causes him who prays to be born again, and it grants him bodily and spiritual well-being. Prayer is the eyes and wings of the soul; it gives us the boldness and strength to behold God. . My brother, keep praying with your mouth until divine grace enlightens you to pray also with your heart. Then a celebration and festival will take place within you in a wondrous way, and you will no longer pray with your mouth, but with the attention which works in the heart. If you truly desire to expel every anti-Christian thought and to purify your nous, you will achieve this only through prayer, for nothing is able to regulate our thoughts as well as prayer.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fbk3r\" data-offset-key=\"cr7i2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cr7i2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cr7i2-0-0\">&#8211; &#8216;Counsels from the Holy Mountain&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cr7i2-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5329\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MG_4894-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MG_4894-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MG_4894-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MG_4894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MG_4894-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Prayer is one of the foremost and strongest powers that causes him who prays to be born again, and it grants him bodily and spiritual well-being. Prayer is the eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}