{"id":135307,"date":"2025-03-03T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135307"},"modified":"2025-03-03T07:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:04:52","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-john-and-charles-wesley-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135307","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of John and Charles Wesley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lord God, who didst inspire thy servants John and Charles Wesley with burning zeal for the sanctification of souls, and didst endow them with eloquence in speech and song: Kindle in thy Church, we beseech thee, such fervor, that those whose faith has cooled may be warmed, and those who have not known thy Christ may turn to him and be saved; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> February 5, 1736:<br>John (32) and Charles Wesley (28) arrive in Savannah, Georgia, answering an invitation from Governor James Oglethorpe to serve as missionaries to Native Americans. Their time in America proves difficult, and John Wesley later returns to England, where he\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ubl2BeBMJq\">pic.twitter.com\/ubl2BeBMJq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u2627 Today in Christian History (@HistoricalRook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistoricalRook\/status\/1887078890134258165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord God, who didst inspire thy servants John and Charles Wesley with burning zeal for the sanctification of souls, and didst endow them with eloquence in speech and song: Kindle in thy Church, we beseech thee, such fervor, that those<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135307\">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":[186,183,416,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-methodist-other-churches","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135307","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=135307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135309,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135307\/revisions\/135309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}