{"id":7315,"date":"2026-10-11T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7315"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:00:31","slug":"weak-and-helpless-and-burdened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7315","title":{"rendered":"Weak and helpless and burdened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Weak and helpless and burdened<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(John MacDuff, \u201cFamily Prayers\u201d 1885)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We come,&nbsp;<strong>weak and helpless and burdened<\/strong>, to that cross where alone there is shelter and peace for the guilty. We take refuge anew at the foot of<br>Your cross, bringing our infinite unworthiness to Your infinite merit and all-sufficiency. Wash us, blessed Saviour, in the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness. Receive us graciously. Love us freely. Preserve against the world\u2019s snares, and dangers, and temptations. May Your love exercise a paramount influence over us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weak and helpless and burdened (John MacDuff, \u201cFamily Prayers\u201d 1885) We come,&nbsp;weak and helpless and burdened, to that cross where alone there is shelter and peace for the guilty. We take refuge anew at the foot ofYour cross, bringing our infinite unworthiness to Your infinite merit and all-sufficiency. Wash us, blessed Saviour, in the fountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-weakness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315","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=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7316,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions\/7316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}