{"id":125,"date":"2009-06-02T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T20:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-06-02T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T20:47:58","slug":"finishing-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"Studying_French\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/french_study-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Studying_French\" width=\"140\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/french_study-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/french_study-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/french_study.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/>I have been in Canada taking a conversational French course since April 27 while Donna and the kids have split their time between my mom in New Mexico and Donna\u2019s parents in Texas. Between May 14 and 18 I was able to visit my wife and kids in Dallas. My French course will finish in three weeks and I will be re-united with my family.<\/p>\n<p>While it has not been easy to be away from my family for an extended period of time God has aided us during this time. We would greatly covet your prayers these last three weeks that God\u2019s grace would abound to our marriage and family while we are apart and that everyone (especially our children) would finish this season strong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Praises:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While being apart has been difficult, God has sustained us.<\/li>\n<li>Nehemiah\u2019s acceptance into RVA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Keep in Prayer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The team in Benin as they keep up the broadcasting<\/li>\n<li>Wisdom as TWR makes cuts because of the worldwide economic situation<\/li>\n<li>Our final preparations for returning to Benin at the end of June<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for your prayers &#8212; Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in Canada taking a conversational French course since April 27 while Donna and the kids have split their time between my mom in New Mexico and Donna\u2019s parents in Texas. Between May 14 and 18 I was able to visit my wife and kids in Dallas. My French course will finish in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}