{"id":2899,"date":"2016-02-06T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2016-02-06T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T20:03:23","slug":"2899-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/2899-2","title":{"rendered":"Does God Hear the Prayers of Superbowl Quarterbacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/2899-2\/newton_manning\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/newton_manning-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"newton_manning\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/newton_manning-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/newton_manning.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>Both Quarterbacks in Superbowl 50 are followers of Jesus Christ, which presents a conundrum of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>If both Quarterbacks are praying for a win, whose prayers does God answer?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hollowverse.com\/cam-newton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Newton (QB, Carolina Panthers):<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a God thing. I thank God every single day. I\u2019m just His instrument and He\u2019s using me on a consistent basis daily. [God is] using me to extend His word and I\u2019m a prime example of how God could turn something that was bad into something that was very great\u2026 If God is with me who can be against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoliticalinsider.com\/peyton-manning-opens-christian-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peyton Manning (QB, Denver Broncos):<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy faith has been number one since I was thirteen years old and heard from the pulpit on a Sunday\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">morning in New Orleans a simple question: \u2018If you died today, are you one hundred percent sure you\u2019d go to heaven?&#8217; Cooper was there and Eli [Peyton\u2019s two brothers] but it didn\u2019t hit them at the time the way it did me. It was a big church, and I felt very small, but my heart was pounding. The minister invited those who would like that assurance through Jesus Christ to raise their hands, and I did. Then he invited us to come forward, to take a stand, and my heart really started pounding. And from where we sat, it looked like a mile to the front. But I got up and did it. And I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Quarterbacks in Superbowl 50 are followers of Jesus Christ, which presents a conundrum of sorts. If both Quarterbacks are praying for a win, whose prayers does God answer? Cam Newton (QB, Carolina Panthers): \u201cIt\u2019s just a God thing. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/2899-2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}