{"id":3093,"date":"2025-09-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:07:13","slug":"daily-prayers-for-guys-456","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"DAILY PRAYERS FOR GUYS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>To Know My Enemies &#8211; And to Love Them<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God of Love,<br>You don\u2019t just call me to be a neighbor and to love my neighbors, but also to love my enemies. While I may tend to think of extreme examples when I think about who my enemies are, give me a more discerning perspective on who you\u2019re really calling me to love. You\u2019re calling me to love my obnoxious family member who gets a kick out of ruffling everyone\u2019s feathers. You\u2019re calling me to love my blowhard coworker, who feels compelled to share a loudmouth opinion about everything. You\u2019re calling me to love the person who, for reasons I cannot even explain, irritates me just by being in the same room. You\u2019re calling me to love the person who is habitually unkind and downright cruel to others. You\u2019re calling me to love my spouse, even when my needs aren\u2019t being met. It isn\u2019t easy to love such people, Lord! You, of all people, should know, for you love even me. Let that truth empower my love for others &#8211; even my enemies. \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 Know My Enemies &#8211; And to Love Them God of Love,You don\u2019t just call me to be a neighbor and to love my neighbors, but also to love my enemies. While I may tend to think of extreme examples when I think about who my enemies are, give me a more discerning perspective on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/?p=3093\">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":[695,185,53,355,37,136,116,354],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers-for-guys","tag-enemies","tag-enemy","tag-grace","tag-guys","tag-love","tag-neighbor","tag-patience","tag-prayers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p842FN-NT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1thingmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}