{"id":132975,"date":"2024-11-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132975"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:10:57","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-isaac-watts-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132975","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Isaac Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God of truth and grace, who didst give Isaac Watts singular gifts to present thy praise in verse, that he might write psalms, hymns and spiritual songs for thy Church: Give us grace joyfully to sing thy praises now and in the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who livest and reignest with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.God of truth and grace, who didst give Isaac Watts singular gifts to present thy praise in verse, that he might write psalms, hymns and spiritual songs for thy Church: Give us grace joyfully to sing thy praises now and in the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who livest and reignest with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Isaac Watts, minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician, died Nov. 25, 1748. <br>\u201cMust I be carried to the skies <br>On flow\u2019ry beds of ease, <br>While others fought to win the prize <br>And sailed through bloody seas?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FIBq9RmYPu\">pic.twitter.com\/FIBq9RmYPu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Judson I Stone (@JudsonIStone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudsonIStone\/status\/1861061160281210910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God of truth and grace, who didst give Isaac Watts singular gifts to present thy praise in verse, that he might write psalms, hymns and spiritual songs for thy Church: Give us grace joyfully to sing thy praises now and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132975\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,183,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132982,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132975\/revisions\/132982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}