{"id":5118,"date":"2019-07-24T23:43:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T23:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T14:11:36","slug":"afflicted-saint-to-christ-draw-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2019\/07\/afflicted-saint-to-christ-draw-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Afflicted Saint, To Christ Draw Near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deuteronomy 33:24,25: &#8220;And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2 Corinthians 12:7-10: &#8220;And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ&#8217;s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"5118\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"9\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deuteronomy 33:24,25: &#8220;And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.&#8221; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10: &#8220;And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273,1284],"tags":[1253],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trials-and-tribulations","category-john-fawcetts-hymns","tag-tribulation","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17179,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/17179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}