{"id":4052,"date":"2020-12-15T12:31:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2020-12-15T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:43:58","slug":"strong-prepared-and-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4052","title":{"rendered":"Strong, Prepared and faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Semper\u00a0Vigilans\u00a0Fortis <br>Semper \u00a0Paratus\u00a0et\u00a0Fidelis<br>And semper my temper <br>Calls me to do what&#8217;s right, <br>Not what I please, <br>To be strong, prepared and faithful, <br>Keeping my hands on the handle. <br>God&#8217;s Word that guides my life <br>Keeps me with child and wife <br>So anything I do   <br>Goes first through You, <br>The Boss of all the world, <br>Which to confusion was hurled <br>On that day of rebellion <br>By that hellion <br>Born not of the bosom\u00a0 <br>Of a nasty woman, <br>That sweet little Eve <br>Whom that Devil deceived <br>On that miserable day, <br>So they say, <br>That day of sin, <br>That fall when all <br>Went dark within. <br>No, that Devil is the one <br>Who messed with the Son <br>Long before He came down. <br>But he&#8217;s been &#8220;done in&#8221; by the Lord <br>Who hung on that board, <br>Nails through His hands and feet. <br>Then He took that seat <br>After He beat that cheat <br>And death when He arose.  <br>And now He glows <br>With the glory of hosts <br>Who worship the Father forever <br>Him and Spirit most holy together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:24 on 15 Dec., 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semper\u00a0Vigilans\u00a0Fortis Semper \u00a0Paratus\u00a0et\u00a0FidelisAnd semper my temper Calls me to do what&#8217;s right, Not what I please, To be strong, prepared and faithful, Keeping my hands on the handle. God&#8217;s Word that guides my life Keeps me with child and wife So anything I do Goes first through You, The Boss of all the world, Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,12,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}