{"id":3330,"date":"2023-05-21T06:35:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T11:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2023-05-21T06:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T11:35:31","slug":"biblical-superhero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2023\/05\/biblical-superhero\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Superhero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, we celebrated National Superhero Day, which made me think beyond my more recent selections, to biblical possibilities.\u00a0\u00a0Who is my biblical hero?\u00a0\u00a0There are many, but I keep being drawn to a little-known prayer-warrior mentioned only once in the Bible.\u00a0\u00a0The Apostle Paul describes Epaphras as, \u201c<em>one<\/em>\u00a0of you, a bondservant of Christ . . . always laboring\u00a0fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God\u201d (Colossians 4:12).\u00a0 He was: (1) a bondservant; (2) a prayer partner; (3) in the will of God.\u00a0\u00a0Why was Epaphras not better known?\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps because he chose the often overlooked, low-profile work of prayer. Laboring in near obscurity he performed the invaluable ministry of intercession.\u00a0\u00a0Others were more visible, and less effective. I want to be like Epaphras &#8211; a prayer warrior, in the will of God.\u00a0\u00a0Who is your biblical superhero?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, we celebrated National Superhero Day, which made me think beyond my more recent selections, to biblical possibilities.\u00a0\u00a0Who is my biblical hero?\u00a0\u00a0There are many, but I keep being drawn to a little-known prayer-warrior mentioned only once in the Bible.\u00a0\u00a0The Apostle Paul describes Epaphras as, \u201cone\u00a0of you, a bondservant of Christ . . &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}