{"id":25135,"date":"2025-06-18T23:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25135"},"modified":"2025-06-18T23:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:54:03","slug":"stand-up-and-bless-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/06\/stand-up-and-bless-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand Up And Bless The Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Stand up and bless the Lord,<br \/>\nye people of His choice;<br \/>\nstand up and bless the Lord your God<br \/>\nwith heart and soul and voice.<\/p>\n<p>2 Though high above all praise,<br \/>\nabove all blessing high,<br \/>\nwho would not fear His holy name<br \/>\nand laud and magnify?<\/p>\n<p>3 O for the living flame<br \/>\nfrom His own altar brought,<br \/>\nto touch our lips, our minds inspire,<br \/>\nand wing to heav&#8217;n our thought!<\/p>\n<p>4 There, with benign regard,<br \/>\nour hymns He deigns to hear;<br \/>\ntho&#8217; unrevealed to mortal sense,<br \/>\nthe spirit feels Him near.<\/p>\n<p>5 God is our strength and song,<br \/>\nand His salvation ours;<br \/>\nthen be His love in Christ proclaimed<br \/>\nwith all our ransomed pow&#8217;rs.<\/p>\n<p>6 Stand up and bless the Lord;<br \/>\nthe Lord your God adore;<br \/>\nstand up and bless His glorious name<br \/>\nhenceforth and evermore.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25135\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Stand up and bless the Lord,<br \/>\nye people of His choice;<br \/>\nstand up and bless the Lord your God<br \/>\nwith heart and soul and voice.<\/p>\n<p>2 Though high above all praise,<br \/>\nabove all blessing high,<br \/>\nwho would not fear His holy name<br \/>\nand laud and magnify?<\/p>\n<p>3 O for the living flame<br \/>\nfrom His own altar brought,<br \/>\nto touch our lips, our minds inspire,<br \/>\nand wing to heav&#8217;n our thought!<\/p>\n<p>4 There, with benign regard,<br \/>\nour hymns He deigns to hear;<br \/>\ntho&#8217; unrevealed to mortal sense,<br \/>\nthe spirit feels Him near.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-triune-jehovah","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25144,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135\/revisions\/25144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}