{"id":916,"date":"2024-06-19T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/?p=916"},"modified":"2025-06-19T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:30:41","slug":"blijkbaar-hebben-we-de-aansporing-nodig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/blijkbaar-hebben-we-de-aansporing-nodig\/","title":{"rendered":"'Apparently we need the spur'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>'In Luke 18, Jesus tells a parable to his disciples about the need to always pray and not give up. The disciples obviously needed that exhortation. The same applies to us, here and now. Praying for Neighbours is one of those wonderful initiatives that encourages us to always pray and not give up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, I really liked the prayer exercise where we were challenged to see before us that crowd from Revelation 7. That uncountable crowd from all nations and peoples, from every tribe and language. And then to imagine: hey, there is my neighbour, and there my neighbour, there are my neighbours for whom I prayed!'<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Fred Kappinga<\/strong><br>Pastor ICF Rotterdam-Noord<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In Lucas 18 vertelt Jezus een gelijkenis aan zijn leerlingen over de noodzaak om altijd te bidden en niet op te geven. De leerlingen hadden die aansporing blijkbaar nodig. Datzelfde geldt voor ons, hier en nu. Bidden voor de Buren is een van die prachtige initiatieven die ons aanzet om altijd te bidden en niet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-getuigenis"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biddenvoordeburen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}