{"id":8876,"date":"2025-12-14T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/hymn-266-spirit-of-god-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:15:59","slug":"hymn-266-spirit-of-god-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal\/hymn-266-spirit-of-god-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 266 SPIRIT OF GOD Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\">New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal<\/h2>\n<h2>Hymn 266 SPIRIT OF GOD Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nSpirit of God, descend upon my heart;<br \/>\nWean it from earth; through all its pulses move;<br \/>\nStoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art,<br \/>\nAnd make me love Thee as I ought to love.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nI ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies,<br \/>\nNo sudden rending of the veil of clay,<br \/>\nNo angel visitant, no opening skies;<br \/>\nBut take the dimness of my soul away.<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nHas thou not bid me love Thee, God and King?<br \/>\nAll, all Thine own, soul, heart and strength and mind.<br \/>\nI see Thy cross; there teach my heart to cling.<br \/>\nO let me seek thee, and O let me find.<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nTeach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;<br \/>\nTeach me the struggles of the soul to bear.<br \/>\nTo check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh,<br \/>\nTeach me the patience of unanswered prayer.<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\nTeach me to love thee as Thine angels love,<br \/>\nOne holy passion filling all my frame;<br \/>\nThe kindling of the heavendescended Dove,<br \/>\nMy heart an altar, and Thy love the flame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New English Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal Hymn 266 SPIRIT OF GOD Lyrics &nbsp; 1 Spirit of God, descend upon my heart; Wean it from earth; through all its pulses move; Stoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art, And make me love Thee as I ought to love. 2 I ask no dream, no prophet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-english-seventh-day-adventist-hymnal"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}