{"id":19349,"date":"2024-02-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19349"},"modified":"2024-02-17T19:15:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T00:15:25","slug":"sunday-singing-make-me-a-captive-lord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19349","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Make Me a Captive, Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Make Me A Captive, Lord (Preview)\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qXBKUqtbWJ4?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><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s hymn was written by Rev. George Matheson\u00a0of Glasgow, Scotland (1842-1906). He published several works of prose and poetry while serving as a parish minister. His most popular hymn is &#8220;O Love, That Wilt Not Let Me Go.&#8221; &#8220;Make Me a Captive, Lord&#8221; was published in 1890.  The tune was written in 1862 by George William Martin of London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPut not your trust in princes,<br>    in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.<br>When his breath departs, he returns to the earth;<br>    on that very day his plans perish.\u201d (Psalm 146:3\u20134 ESV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Make me a captive, Lord,<br>and then I shall be free;<br>force me to render up my sword,<br>and I shall conqueror be.<br>I sink in life&#8217;s alarms<br>when by myself I stand;<br>imprison me within Your arms,<br>and strong shall be my hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 My heart is weak and poor<br>until it master find;<br>it has no spring of action sure \u2014<br>it varies with the wind.<br>It cannot freely move,<br>till You have forged its chain;<br>enslave it with Your matchless love,<br>and deathless it shall reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 My power is faint and low<br>till I have learned to serve;<br>it lacks the needed fire to glow,<br>it lacks the breeze to nerve;<br>it cannot drive the world,<br>until itself be driven;<br>its flag can only be unfurled<br>when You shall breathe from heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 My will is not my own<br>until to You it&#8217;s given;<br>it must its earthly crown resign<br>if it would reach to heaven;<br>it only stands unbent,<br>amid the clashing strife,<br>when on Your bosom it has leant,<br>and found in You its life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s hymn was written by Rev. George Matheson\u00a0of Glasgow, Scotland (1842-1906). He published several works of prose and poetry while serving as a parish minister. His most popular hymn is &#8220;O Love, That Wilt Not Let Me Go.&#8221; &#8220;Make Me a Captive, Lord&#8221; was published in 1890. The tune was written in 1862 by George &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Make Me a Captive, Lord<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1254,3966],"class_list":["post-19349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-hymns","tag-sunday-singing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19350,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19349\/revisions\/19350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}