{"id":2693,"date":"2025-05-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:27:45","slug":"daily-prayers-for-guys-346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=2693","title":{"rendered":"DAILY PRAYERS FOR GUYS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>To Fix My &#8220;Me First&#8221; <\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God of Grace,<br>Your grace is never without effect! It brought me out of darkness into your wonderful light. It has forever changed how I see myself and my time in this world. We are all born into this world with a \u201cme first\u201d mentality that puts self before everyone else. But your grace turns that \u201cme first\u201d mentality into a mantra for Christian living that is eager to take initiative in serving others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than looking for reasons I can\u2019t or excuses to get me out of meeting someone else\u2019s needs, I ask \u201cWhy not me?\u201d If I can, when I can, lead me to proactively love others, not waiting to be asked or pausing in hopes that others step in first. Infuse me with the gospel and your grace to instill in me the drive to jump in and radically love others. Free me from the selfish \u201cme first&#8221; and replace it with a selfless \u201cme first\u201d that finds great joy and fulfillment in loving others &#8211; for this is yet one more way I can express my love for you.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Jesus\u2019 name I pray. Amen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Fix My &#8220;Me First&#8221; God of Grace,Your grace is never without effect! It brought me out of darkness into your wonderful light. It has forever changed how I see myself and my time in this world. We are all born into this world with a \u201cme first\u201d mentality that puts self before everyone else.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=2693\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DAILY PRAYERS FOR GUYS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[384],"tags":[53,355,37,856,354,223,302,137],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers-for-guys","tag-grace","tag-guys","tag-love","tag-mefirst","tag-prayers","tag-selfish","tag-selfless","tag-serve"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p842FN-Hr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}