{"id":4190,"date":"2021-02-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:17:07","slug":"40-day-prayer-challenge-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/2021\/02\/25\/40-day-prayer-challenge-day-9\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Day Prayer Challenge &#8212; Day 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.us-west-002.backblazeb2.com\/amaryllis-wp-media\/2021\/02\/p3908734235-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4192\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pray<\/strong> for each child that receives boxes from <strong>Operation Christmas Child<\/strong>. Pray it would point them to Christ and that their physical and spiritual needs would be met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pray<\/strong> that funds would come in for my ambition to send out more of these boxes as ways to share Christ&#8217;s love. I&#8217;d love to meet the goal of sending out 200 boxes by the end of the year! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Consider<\/strong> starting this project in your home church!<br><br><strong>Praise God <\/strong>for all the boxes delivered thus far and for the hope and cheer it brings to children!<br><br><em>Since 1993, <strong>Operation Christmas Child<\/strong>, the world\u2019s largest Christmas project of its kind, has collected and delivered more than 178&nbsp;million shoe box gifts to children in more than 160&nbsp;countries and territories.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In 2020, <strong>Operation Christmas Child<\/strong> hoped to collect enough shoe box gifts to reach another 11&nbsp;million children in countries like Peru, the Philippines, Rwanda and Ukraine. More than 10.5&nbsp;million shoe box gifts were collected worldwide in 2019, with more than 8.9&nbsp;million collected in the&nbsp;U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe shoe boxes open up the door for us to be able to share God\u2019s love with children,\u201d<\/em> said Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan\u2019s Purse. <em>\u201cI want every child to know that God is real, that He cares for them, and I want them to know the true meaning of Christmas, which is God sent His Son to this earth to save them from their sins.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/operation-christmas-child\/fact-sheet-occ\/\">https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/operation-christmas-child\/fact-sheet-occ\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post written by Rose Lucas<br>Edited by Pearl Morley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo taken by James Staddon. To learn more about him and his photography please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenspiration.com\">www.lenspiration.com.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pray for each child that receives boxes from Operation Christmas Child. Pray it would point them to Christ and that their physical and spiritual needs would be met. Pray that&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/2021\/02\/25\/40-day-prayer-challenge-day-9\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}