{"id":1173,"date":"2011-08-07T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2011-08-07T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T09:37:23","slug":"i-asked-the-lord-that-i-might-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"I asked the Lord, that I might grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I asked the Lord, that I might grow<\/strong><br \/>\nI asked the Lord, that I might grow<br \/>\nIn faith, and love, and every grace;<br \/>\nMight more of His salvation know;<br \/>\nAnd seek more earnestly His face.<\/p>\n<p>Twas He who taught me thus to pray,<br \/>\nAnd He, I trust has answered prayer;<br \/>\nBut it has been in such a way,<br \/>\nAs almost drove me to despair!<\/p>\n<p>I hoped that in some favored hour,<br \/>\nAt once He\u2019d answer my request;<br \/>\nAnd by His love\u2019s constraining power,<br \/>\nSubdue my sins\u2013and give me rest!<\/p>\n<p>Instead of this, He made me feel<br \/>\nThe hidden evils of my heart;<br \/>\nAnd let the angry powers of hell<br \/>\nAssault my soul in every part!<\/p>\n<p>Yes more, with His own hand He seemed<br \/>\nIntent to\u00a0<em>aggravate <\/em>my woe!<br \/>\nCrossed all the fair designs I schemed,<br \/>\nBlasted my gourds\u2013and laid me low!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLord, why is this!\u201d<\/em> I trembling cried,<br \/>\n\u201cWill you pursue your worm to death?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the way,\u201d the Lord replied,<br \/>\n\u201cI answer prayer for grace and faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese\u00a0<em>inward<\/em> <em>trials<\/em> I employ,<br \/>\nFrom\u00a0<em>self<\/em> and\u00a0<em>pride<\/em> to set you free;<br \/>\nAnd break your\u00a0<em>schemes of earthly joy,<\/em><br \/>\nThat you may seek your all in Me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod\u2019s people, whenever they are scorched by<br \/>\nafflictions as by hot sun-beams, may resort to<br \/>\nhim, who is as a shadow of a great rock, and be<br \/>\neffectually sheltered, and\u00a0<strong>sweetly refreshed<\/strong>.\u201d<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n-Jonathan Edwards<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked the Lord, that I might grow I asked the Lord, that I might grow In faith, and love, and every grace; Might more of His salvation know; And seek more earnestly His face. Twas He who taught me thus to pray, And He, I trust has answered prayer; But it has been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-newton","category-believers-assurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}