Joint Resolution 0803<\/a> asks the state’s people \u201cto seek God\u2019s hand of mercy and healing on Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\nA\u00a0letter\u00a0signed by Tennessee\u00a0state Senator Mark Pody\u00a0and\u00a0Representative Monty Fritts\u00a0accompanying the resolution invites \u201cthose who are physically able and spiritually inclined to do so to join in a 30-day season of prayer and intermittent fasting for the month of July as a means of humbling ourselves to receive God\u2019s grace, mercy, and blessing in Tennessee and in our Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Comparison To Bible<\/h3>\n
The wording of the legislators is reminiscent of 2 Chronicles 7:14 in which God says, \u201cIf My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and I will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee is calling for an entire month of prayer and fasting asking for God’s hand of mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[243,223,230,203,205,249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33846,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831\/revisions\/33846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}