{"id":4636,"date":"2024-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/august-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:18:53","slug":"august-2","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Ezekiel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs chief prayer warriors, the prophets regularly interceded to God on behalf of those who were needy and rebellious. God said that Abraham was such a prophet who would pray for Abimelech\u2019s life after he claimed Sarah. Moses is the chief example of a prophetic intercessor\u2026. Even when YHWH commanded him to not intercede, Moses was unrelenting in his prophetic role, and the result was God\u2019s mercy. Similarly, Samuel said that he would sin if he failed to pray for Israel, along with teaching the people God\u2019s ways. Both Elijah and the prophets of Baal call upon the name of their respective gods, and Naaman the Aramean expects Elisha to intercede on his behalf. Amos pleaded with YHWH two times to forgive Israel and to withhold his punishment against the northern kingdom, and the Lord relented. God expected the true prophets who bore his word to pray for his people\u2019s needs. As with Moses, the Lord charged Jeremiah to act opposite of his prophetic role. Nevertheless, the prophet did pray, and he later implored God to protect him in return for his having done so. YHWH told Ezekiel that he was seeking a man to \u2018build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4636","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}