{"id":23268,"date":"2023-01-01T19:36:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T18:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=177941"},"modified":"2023-01-07T21:34:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T20:34:52","slug":"standing-in-the-need-of-prayer-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Standing in the Need of Prayer\u2019 lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By BBC Music Magazine\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 01 January 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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It is unknown who wrote the African American spiritual \u2018Standing in the Need\u2019 but it became popular in the 20th century\u00a0 after it was published in James Weldon Johnson and his brother Rosamond Johnson\u2019s The Book of American Negro Spirituals<\/em> (1925).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h2>\u2018Standing in the Need of Prayer\u2019 lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>Not my brother, not my sister, but it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer;<br\/>\nNot my brother, not my sister, but it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br\/>\nIt\u2019s me, it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer;<br\/>\nIt\u2019s me, it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Not the preacher, not the deacon, but it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer;<br\/>\nNot the preacher, not the deacon, but it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer. [Chorus]<\/p>\n<p>Not my father, not my mother, but it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer;<br\/>\nNot my father, not my mother, but it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer. [Chorus]<\/p>\n<p>Not the stranger, not my neighbor, but it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer;<br\/>\nNot the stranger, not my neighbor, but it\u2019s me, O Lord,<br\/>\nStandin\u2019 in the need of prayer. [Chorus]<\/p>\n<section class=\""highlight\"> <div class=\""highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<h4>More famous hymn lyrics<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/must-jesus-bear-the-cross-alone-lyrics\/"\">\u2018Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/i-heard-the-voice-of-jesus-say-lyrics\/"\">\u2018I heard the voice of Jesus say\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/40-days-and-40-nights-lyrics\/"\">\u201940 days and 40 nights\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/down-in-the-river-to-pray-lyrics\/"\">\u2018Down in the river to pray\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/fading-away-like-the-stars-of-the-morning-lyrics\/"\">\u2018Fading away like the stars of the morning\u2019 lyrics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Music Magazine Published: Sunday, 01 January 2023 at 12:00 am It is unknown who wrote the African American spiritual \u2018Standing in the Need\u2019 but it became popular in the 20th century\u00a0 after it was published in James Weldon Johnson and his brother Rosamond Johnson\u2019s The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925). \u2018Standing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":23269,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer-lyrics.jpg",1772,1181,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer-lyrics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer-lyrics-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer-lyrics-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer-lyrics-1024x682.jpg",800,533,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer-lyrics-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/standing-in-the-need-of-prayer-lyrics.jpg",1772,1181,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By BBC Music Magazine Published: Sunday, 01 January 2023 at 12:00 am It is unknown who wrote the African American spiritual \u2018Standing in the Need\u2019 but it became popular in the 20th century\u00a0 after it was published in James Weldon Johnson and his brother Rosamond Johnson\u2019s The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925). \u2018Standing in…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/23268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}