{"id":143,"date":"2009-07-23T02:22:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T09:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-07-23T02:22:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T09:22:44","slug":"land-shortwave-malaria-and-tyranny-of-the-urgent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Land, Shortwave, Malaria and Tyranny of the Urgent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last prayer blog I asked you to pray for our colleague who was stuck in Ghana with a visa issue. Praise be to God that after a month in Ghana he received his visa and is now back in Benin.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that we have been working on is purchasing land in Parakou so we can build an office and houses. By God\u2019s grace we are very close to purchasing this land. Please pray that all of the details of this transaction would be handled correctly to help eliminate (or at least reduce) future problems. (Land disputes are a common part of life in Benin.)<\/p>\n<p>We are also working toward having a shortwave transmitter in Benin. Right now we are working on some of the planning details. Pray for wisdom as we work through these details.<\/p>\n<p>The day I wrote the last prayer blog Micah Joy came down with Malaria.\u00a0 She responded well to the treatment.\u00a0 This is something that is constantly looming over us.\u00a0 Most of the time Malaria if treated quickly is not too serious but it can quickly become serious.\u00a0 Please pray for protection and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>I would appreciate your prayers that I do not get trapped in the tyranny of the urgent but that I would use my time wisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last prayer blog I asked you to pray for our colleague who was stuck in Ghana with a visa issue. Praise be to God that after a month in Ghana he received his visa and is now back in Benin. One of the things that we have been working on is purchasing land [&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-143","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\/143","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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}