{"id":4757,"date":"2018-07-12T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?page_id=4757"},"modified":"2018-07-12T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T03:16:12","slug":"hindrances-to-prayer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/hymn-of-the-day\/hindrances-to-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindrances to Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Hindrances to Prayer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What various hindrances we meet<br \/>\nIn coming to a mercy-seat!<br \/>\nYet who that knows the worth of prayer,<br \/>\nBut wishes to be often there?<\/p>\n<p>Prayer makes the darken&#8217;d cloud withdraw,<br \/>\nPrayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw,<br \/>\nGives exercise to faith and love,<br \/>\nBrings every blessing from above.<\/p>\n<p>Restraining prayer, we cease to fight;<br \/>\nPrayer makes the Christian\u2019s armour bright;<br \/>\nAnd Satan trembles when he sees<br \/>\nThe weakest saint upon his knees.<\/p>\n<p>While Moses stood with arms spread wide,<br \/>\nSuccess was found on Israel&#8217;s side:<br \/>\nBut when through weariness they fail&#8217;d,<br \/>\nThat moment Amalek prevail&#8217;d.<\/p>\n<p>Have you no words? Ah, think again,<br \/>\nWords flow apace when you complain,<br \/>\nAnd fill your fellow-creature&#8217;s ear<br \/>\nwith the sad tale of all your care.<\/p>\n<p>Were half the breath thus vainly spent,<br \/>\nTo heaven in supplication sent,<br \/>\nYour cheerful song would oftener be,<br \/>\nHear what the Lord has done for me!<\/p>\n<p><em>William Cowper, 1779<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindrances to Prayer What various hindrances we meet In coming to a mercy-seat! Yet who that knows the worth of prayer, But wishes to be often there? Prayer makes the darken&#8217;d cloud withdraw, Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw, Gives exercise to faith and love, Brings every blessing from above. Restraining prayer, we cease to&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/hymn-of-the-day\/hindrances-to-prayer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":692,"menu_order":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1MnZf-1eJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4757\/revisions\/4765"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}