{"id":2816,"date":"2025-06-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:59:32","slug":"daily-prayers-for-guys-380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=2816","title":{"rendered":"DAILY PRAYERS FOR GUYS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>To Bless My Downtime <\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selfless Savior,<br>Bless my downtime. I look forward to open time on my calendar when nothing is scheduled, but I can also mismanage it if I don\u2019t have any ideas in mind about how I plan to use that time. Then, in contrast to the eager anticipation of looking forward to that time, I look back and regret it if I feel like it was wasted. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using your Word as my guide, help me to establish priorities and values that can help me feel as if my downtime is managed well. Let me be OK with simply doing nothing on occasion, and allowing my mind and body to recharge and reset. This is a blessing from you! At the same time, give me the discipline to manage affairs and responsibilities so that I don\u2019t neglect them when I have extra time to take care of things. Activities and hobbies can bring fulfillment, too, as well as simply spending unscheduled time with friends and family members. Guard me from being too rigid when managing downtime, but let my use of it honor you, bless others, and be a blessing to me.<\/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 Bless My Downtime Selfless Savior,Bless my downtime. I look forward to open time on my calendar when nothing is scheduled, but I can also mismanage it if I don\u2019t have any ideas in mind about how I plan to use that time. Then, in contrast to the eager anticipation of looking forward to that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=2816\">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":[922,355,363,354,906,55,832,379],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers-for-guys","tag-downtime","tag-guys","tag-manage","tag-prayers","tag-priority","tag-rest","tag-schedule","tag-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p842FN-Jq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","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=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}