{"id":82852,"date":"2019-06-20T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82852"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:02:18","slug":"a-prayer-to-begin-the-day-from-the-pastors-prayerbook-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82852","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to Begin the Day from the Pastor&#8217;s Prayerbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O God, renew our spirits by thy Holy Spirit, and draw our hearts this morning unto thyself, that our work may not be a burden, but a delight; and give us such a mighty love to thee as may sweeten all our obedience.  Let us not serve with the spirit of bondage as slaves, but with cheerfulness and gladness, as children, delighting ourselves in thee and rejoicing in thy wishes for the sake of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert W. Rodenmayer, ed., <strong>The Pastor\u2019s Prayerbook: Selected and arranged for various occasions<\/strong> (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Prayer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Prayer<\/a> to Begin the Day from the Pastor\u2019s Prayerbook &#8216;O God, renew our spirits by thy Holy Spirit, and draw our hearts this morning unto thyself, that our work may not be a burden, but a delight&#8230;&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sprv0CV0I7\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sprv0CV0I7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/anglican?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#anglican<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/perspective?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#perspective<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/theology?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#theology<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AghvBNNMEA\">pic.twitter.com\/AghvBNNMEA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/1141660999319195655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, renew our spirits by thy Holy Spirit, and draw our hearts this morning unto thyself, that our work may not be a burden, but a delight; and give us such a mighty love to thee as may sweeten<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82852\">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":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82852","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=82852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82910,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82852\/revisions\/82910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}