{"id":4529,"date":"2008-09-20T09:21:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T03:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2008-09-20T09:21:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T03:51:01","slug":"the-power-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-power-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heh<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

A couple of weeks before August 28th—the night that Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President, in a Denver football stadium—Stuart Shepard, the digital-media director of the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful organizations on the religious right, posed a question to his Internet viewers. “Would it be wrong,” he asked, “to pray for rain?” Shepard’s answer, apparently, was no, because he proceeded to do just that. He prayed for there to be rain—abundant rain, torrential rain, “rain of Biblical proportions”—in Denver on August 28th. “I’m praying for unexpected, unanticipated, unforecasted rain that starts two minutes before the speech is set to begin,” he said, adding, “I know there will probably be people who will pray for seventy-two degrees and clear skies, but this isn’t a contest.”<\/p>\n

In the event, Obama gave his speech under clear skies with the thermometer at seventy-two degrees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Link via email from Sanjeev<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heh<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

A couple of weeks before August 28th—the night that Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President, in a Denver football stadium—Stuart Shepard, the digital-media director of the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful organizations on the religious right, posed a question to his Internet viewers. “Would it be wrong,” he asked, “to pray for rain?” Shepard’s answer, apparently, was no, because he proceeded to do just that. He prayed for there to be rain—abundant rain, torrential rain, “rain of Biblical proportions”—in Denver on August 28th. “I’m praying for unexpected, unanticipated, unforecasted rain that starts two minutes before the speech is set to begin,” he said, adding, “I know there will probably be people who will pray for seventy-two degrees and clear skies, but this isn’t a contest.”<\/p>\n

In the event, Obama gave his speech under clear skies with the thermometer at seventy-two degrees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Link via email from Sanjeev<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Power Of Prayer - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-power-of-prayer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Power Of Prayer - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Heh: A couple of weeks before August 28th—the night that Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President, in a Denver football stadium—Stuart Shepard, the digital-media director of the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful organizations on the religious right, posed a question to his Internet viewers. “Would it be wrong,” he asked, “to pray for rain?” Shepard’s answer, apparently, was no, because he proceeded to do just that. 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