{"id":1196,"date":"2011-08-07T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T09:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2011-08-07T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T09:59:20","slug":"he-has-a-healing-balm-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"He has a healing balm for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(John MacDuff, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/Mac\/tg00.htm\">The Throne of Grace<\/a>\u201c)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Holy Spirit helps us in our distress.\u201d\u00a0Rom. 8:26<br \/>\n<strong>You cannot live without the Holy Spirit.<\/strong><br \/>\nThere cannot be . . .<br \/>\none heavenly aspiration,<br \/>\none breathing of love,<br \/>\none upward glance of faith<\/p>\n<p>without His gracious influences.<br \/>\nApart from Him, there is . . .<br \/>\nno preciousness in the Word,<br \/>\nno blessing in ordinances,<br \/>\nno permanent, sanctifying results in affliction.<br \/>\nThe Holy Spirit . . .<br \/>\ndirects His people to the waters of comfort,<br \/>\ngives new glory to the promises, and<br \/>\ninvests the Savior\u2019s character and work,<br \/>\nwith new loveliness and beauty.<br \/>\nCome, then, with your\u00a0<strong>affliction!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Come with your\u00a0<strong>infirmity!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Come with your\u00a0<strong>need!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Come with your\u00a0<strong>wounded spirit!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Come with your\u00a0<strong>broken heart!<\/strong><br \/>\nWhatever, then, be your present situation,<br \/>\nseek the promised help of the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\n<strong>He has a healing balm for all<\/strong> . . .<br \/>\nthe weak,<br \/>\nthe tempted,<br \/>\nthe sick,<br \/>\nthe sorrowing,<br \/>\nthe bereaved,<br \/>\nthe dying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Holy Spirit helps us in our distress.\u201d\u00a0Rom. 8:26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(John MacDuff, \u201cThe Throne of Grace\u201c) \u201cThe Holy Spirit helps us in our distress.\u201d\u00a0Rom. 8:26 You cannot live without the Holy Spirit. There cannot be . . . one heavenly aspiration, one breathing of love, one upward glance of faith without His gracious influences. Apart from Him, there is . . . no preciousness 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":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","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=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}