{"id":1005,"date":"2021-10-25T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2021-10-25T11:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:46:55","slug":"god-of-our-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"God of Our Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fanny Crosby&#8217;s great hymn <em>God of Our Strength<\/em> expresses the Christian&#8217;s confidence in divine inspiration and hope for daily living. God&#8217;s strength comes to us as the source of life and the fount of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the assurance of God&#8217;s love and infilling Holy Spirit, we can draw strength for the living of our lives. God&#8217;s power is enthroned above yet available to humans as the very source of our living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this strength, we wait on God, our sure defense in whatever life brings our way. God is our fount of love, and may our devotion&#8217;s sacred flame awaken our souls to praise God&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God of our strength, on thee we call, God of our hope, our light our all; thy name we praise, they love adore, our rock, our shield, forevermore. This hope in God&#8217;s strength is the Christian&#8217;s prayer, hope, inspiration, and bedrock assurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zion Mennonite Church, October 17, 2021\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6bJOaIdmc58?start=948&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Zion Mennonite Church worship singing God is our Strength<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fanny Crosby&#8217;s great hymn God of Our Strength expresses the Christian&#8217;s confidence in divine inspiration and hope for daily living. God&#8217;s strength comes to us as the source of life and the fount of love. In the assurance of God&#8217;s love and infilling Holy Spirit, we can draw strength for the living of our lives. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/?p=1005\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God of Our Strength<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}