{"id":394,"date":"2012-08-18T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thesupernaturallife\/?p=394"},"modified":"2012-08-18T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T12:04:10","slug":"john-wesleys-covenant-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thesupernaturallife\/2012\/08\/18\/john-wesleys-covenant-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wesley\u2019s Covenant Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Wesley, along with his brother Charles founded the Methodist Movement in England in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century. Wesley preached open-air sermons and followed up by encouraging his converts to join small groups for prayer, study and moral accountability. Wesley\u2019s \u201cCovenant Prayer\u201d was a key element in his own spiritual discipline and in Methodist discipleship.<\/p>\n<p>I am no longer my own, but yours.<br \/>\nPut met to what you will, rank me with whom you will;<br \/>\nput me to doing, put me to suffering.<br \/>\nLet me be employed by you or laid aside by you,<br \/>\nenabled for you or brought low by you.<br \/>\nLet me be full, let me be empty.<br \/>\nLet me have all things, let me have nothing.<br \/>\nI freely and heartily yield all things<br \/>\nto your pleasure and disposal.<br \/>\nAnd now, O glorious and blessed God,<br \/>\nFather, Son, and Holy Spirit,<br \/>\nyou are mine, and I am yours. So be it.<br \/>\nAnd the covenant which I have made on earth,<br \/>\nlet it be ratified in heaven.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n<p>Can I pray this, and mean it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wesley, along with his brother Charles founded the Methodist Movement in England in the 18th century. Wesley preached open-air sermons and followed up by encouraging his converts to join small groups for prayer, study and moral accountability. Wesley\u2019s \u201cCovenant Prayer\u201d was a key element in his own spiritual discipline and in Methodist discipleship. 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