{"id":16,"date":"2007-09-24T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newlifedesign.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/24\/prayer-retreat\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:37:00","slug":"prayer-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/24\/prayer-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana &amp; I went on a Prayer Retreat last Thursday &amp; Friday to bathe New Life Design in prayer.\u00a0 It was an incredible experience!\u00a0 We talked to God, and we listened to God about His plans for NLD.\u00a0 We interceded for our clients and asked God&#8217;s hand of power and protection to cover the ministry.\u00a0 This was a very special time for me, personally.\u00a0 I enjoyed getting away, being still and quiet, and talking\/listening to God.\u00a0 It was definitely an intimacy building time.\u00a0 I experienced several &#8220;aha&#8221; moments as I read scripture and prayed.\u00a0 We decided to make this a regular event for New Life Design.\u00a0 When I was in college and in China, I had my own personal days or half-days of prayer, but I&#8217;ve fallen out of the habit since I returned to Powder Springs 3 years ago.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thankful for the reminder of how great it is!\u00a0 I encourage you to try it as well.\u00a0 Take a weekend, day, or a half-day, find a quiet place without any distractions,\u00a0and enjoy the presence of God.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana &amp; I went on a Prayer Retreat last Thursday &amp; Friday to bathe New Life Design in prayer.\u00a0 It was an incredible experience!\u00a0 We talked to God, and we listened to God about His plans for NLD.\u00a0 We interceded for our clients and asked God&#8217;s hand of power and protection to cover the ministry.\u00a0 This was a very special time for me, personally.\u00a0 I enjoyed getting away, being still and quiet, and talking\/listening to God.\u00a0 It was definitely an intimacy building time.\u00a0 I experienced several &#8220;aha&#8221; moments as I read scripture and prayed.\u00a0 We decided to make this a regular event for New Life Design.\u00a0 When I was in college and in China, I had my own personal days or half-days of prayer, but I&#8217;ve fallen out of the habit since I returned to Powder Springs 3 years ago.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thankful for the reminder of how great it is!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}