{"id":4365,"date":"2014-09-16T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2014-09-16T11:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:55:47","slug":"make-me-thy-fuel-flame-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4365","title":{"rendered":"Make Me Thy Fuel, Flame of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/cb\/Amy_Carmichael_with_children2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"189\" \/>My poem of the week this week is one of my favorites from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amy_Carmichael\">Amy Carmichael<\/a> (1867-1951), missionary to India. I kept this poem on the wall of my dorm room in college in order to keep this powerful prayer before me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>Make Me Thy Fuel<\/h1>\n<p>From prayer that asks that I may be<br \/>\nSheltered from winds that beat on Thee,<br \/>\nFrom fearing when I should aspire,<br \/>\nFrom faltering when I should climb higher,<br \/>\nFrom silken self, O Captain, free<br \/>\nThy soldier who would follow Thee.<\/p>\n<p>From subtle love of softening things,<br \/>\nFrom easy choices, weakenings,<br \/>\nNot thus are spirits fortified,<br \/>\nNot this way went the Crucified,<br \/>\nFrom all that dims Thy Calvary,<br \/>\nO Lamb of God, deliver me.<\/p>\n<p>Give me the love that leads the way,<br \/>\nThe faith that nothing can dismay,<br \/>\nThe hope no disappointments tire,<br \/>\nThe passion that will burn like fire,<br \/>\nLet me not sink to be a clod:<br \/>\nMake me Thy fuel, Flame of God.<\/p>\n<p>-taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/Zo8bKw\"><em>Toward Jerusalem<\/em><\/a>, by Amy Carmichael (Fort Washington, PA: Christian Literature Crusade,1988), 94<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poem of the week this week is one of my favorites from Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), missionary to India. I kept this poem on the wall of my dorm room in college in order to keep this powerful prayer before me. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Make Me Thy Fuel From prayer that asks that I may &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Make Me Thy Fuel, Flame of God&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}