{"id":7619,"date":"2011-07-07T08:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2011-07-07T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:58:35","slug":"1-thessalonians-525","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/07\/07\/1-thessalonians-525\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians 5:25"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Brethren, pray for us.&#8221;<br \/>\n             &#8212; 1 Thessalonians 5:25<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This one morning in the year we reserved to refresh the reader&#8217;s memory<br \/>\nupon the subject of prayer for ministers, and we do most earnestly<br \/>\nimplore every Christian household to grant the fervent request of the<br \/>\ntext first uttered by an apostle and now repeated by us. Brethren, our<br \/>\nwork is solemnly momentous, involving weal or woe to thousands; we<br \/>\ntreat with souls for God on eternal business, and our word is either a<br \/>\nsavour of life unto life, or of death unto death. A very heavy<br \/>\nresponsibility rests upon us, and it will be no small mercy if at the<br \/>\nlast we be found clear of the blood of all men. As officers in Christ&#8217;s<br \/>\narmy, we are the especial mark of the enmity of men and devils; they<br \/>\nwatch for our halting, and labour to take us by the heels. Our sacred<br \/>\ncalling involves us in temptations from which you are exempt, above all<br \/>\nit too often draws us away from our personal enjoyment of truth into a<br \/>\nministerial and official consideration of it. We meet with many knotty<br \/>\ncases, and our wits are at a non plus; we observe very sad<br \/>\nbackslidings, and our hearts are wounded; we see millions perishing,<br \/>\nand our spirits sink. We wish to profit you by our preaching; we desire<br \/>\nto be blest to your children; we long to be useful both to saints and<br \/>\nsinners; therefore, dear friends, intercede for us with our God.<br \/>\nMiserable men are we if we miss the aid of your prayers, but happy are<br \/>\nwe if we live in your supplications. You do not look to us but to our<br \/>\nMaster for spiritual blessings, and yet how many times has He given<br \/>\nthose blessings through His ministers; ask then, again and again, that<br \/>\nwe may be the earthen vessels into which the Lord may put the treasure<br \/>\nof the gospel. We, the whole company of missionaries, ministers, city<br \/>\nmissionaries, and students, do in the name of Jesus beseech you<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brethren, pray for us.&#8221; &#8212; 1 Thessalonians 5:25 This one morning in the year we reserved to refresh the reader&#8217;s memory upon the subject of prayer for ministers, and we do most earnestly implore every Christian household to grant the fervent request of the text first uttered by an apostle and now repeated by us&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}