{"id":1193,"date":"2025-02-23T15:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2025-02-23T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T15:07:51","slug":"prayer-in-times-of-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/02\/23\/prayer-in-times-of-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer In Times Of Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today\u2019s sermon was given by our reader Richard Palmer on the second Sunday before Lent \u2013 23\/02\/25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/230225\" width=\"500\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Right click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/230225\/230225.mp3\"><strong>HERE!<\/strong><\/a> to download<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 2:56<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Jonah 2 v 1-10<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>1<\/b><\/font> From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. \n <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>2<\/b><\/font> He said:\n<br><br>\n\u201cIn my distress I called to the Lord,\n    and he answered me.\nFrom deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,\n    and you listened to my cry.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>3<\/b><\/font> \n\nYou hurled me into the depths,\n    into the very heart of the seas,\n    and the currents swirled about me;\nall your waves and breakers\n    swept over me.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>4<\/b><\/font> \nI said, \u2018I have been banished\n    from your sight;\nyet I will look again\n    toward your holy temple.\u2019\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>5 <\/b><\/font>\nThe engulfing waters threatened me,\n    the deep surrounded me;\n    seaweed was wrapped around my head.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>6 <\/b><\/font>\nTo the roots of the mountains I sank down;\n    the earth beneath barred me in forever.\nBut you, Lord my God,\n    brought my life up from the pit.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>7 <\/b><\/font>\n\u201cWhen my life was ebbing away,\n    I remembered you, Lord,\nand my prayer rose to you,\n    to your holy temple.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>8 <\/b><\/font>\n\u201cThose who cling to worthless idols\n    turn away from God\u2019s love for them.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>9 <\/b><\/font>\nBut I, with shouts of grateful praise,\n    will sacrifice to you.\nWhat I have vowed I will make good.\n    I will say, \u2018Salvation comes from the Lord.\u2019\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>10<\/b><\/font> And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.\n<br><br>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s sermon was given by our reader Richard Palmer on the second Sunday before Lent \u2013 23\/02\/25. Right click\u00a0HERE! to download Sermon starts at 2:56 Jonah 2 v 1-10 1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/02\/23\/prayer-in-times-of-trouble\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}