{"id":5585,"date":"2016-08-21T08:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T12:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2016-08-21T08:45:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T12:45:52","slug":"id-rather-have-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2016\/08\/21\/id-rather-have-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d Rather Have Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sitting here and listening to Bethany play the song below. What about you this morning? What is your sincere heart&#8217;s desire?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d rather have Jesus than silver or gold;<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather be His than have riches untold;<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather have Jesus than houses or lands;<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather be led by His nail-pierced hand<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Than to be the king of a vast domain<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Or be held in sin\u2019s dread sway;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>I\u2019d rather have Jesus than anything<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>This world affords today.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d rather have Jesus than men\u2019s applause;<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather be faithful to His dear cause;<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather have Jesus than worldwide fame;<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather be true to His holy name<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s fairer than lilies of rarest bloom;<br \/>\nHe\u2019s sweeter than honey from out the comb;<br \/>\nHe\u2019s all that my hungering spirit needs;<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather have Jesus and let Him lead<\/p>\n<p>(attr. to Oscar C.A. Bernadotte 1888; Rhea Miller 1922)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting here and listening to Bethany play the song below. What about you this morning? What is your sincere heart&#8217;s desire? I\u2019d rather have Jesus than silver or gold; I\u2019d rather be His than have riches untold; I\u2019d rather have Jesus than houses or lands; I\u2019d rather be led by His nail-pierced hand Than to be the king of a vast domain Or be held in sin\u2019s dread sway; I\u2019d rather have Jesus than anything This world affords today. I\u2019d rather have Jesus than men\u2019s applause; I\u2019d rather be faithful to His dear cause; I\u2019d rather have Jesus than worldwide fame; I\u2019d rather be true to His holy name He\u2019s fairer than lilies of rarest bloom; He\u2019s sweeter than honey from out the comb; He\u2019s all that my hungering spirit needs; I\u2019d rather have Jesus and let Him lead (attr. to Oscar C.A. Bernadotte 1888; Rhea Miller 1922)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contentment","category-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-1s5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5586,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}