{"id":2707,"date":"2022-08-11T16:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2022-08-11T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T16:47:28","slug":"blog-august-11th-the-faith-of-elvis-presley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"Blog August 11th \u201cThe Faith of Elvis Presley\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elvis Presley, How Great Thou Art Live 1977\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4Ci2YpH6z4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I read this interesting article in \u201cPremier Christian News\u201d and thought it very much worth sharing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been revealed that Elvis Presley said a prayer before his performances to settle his nerves and to ask God to bless his concerts.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview with the\u00a0<em>Observer<\/em>, the rock n&#8217; roll legend&#8217;s stepbrother Bill Stanley, who also worked with Elvis said: \u201cIt [the prayer] was probably about 15 seconds long. I asked him once, \u2018Why do you say the prayer before?\u2019 He said: \u2018It kind of settles my nerves but also I want God to help bless this concert, so make it a good one.\u2019 He always turned to God whenever he needed help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stanley, who&#8217;s written a new book called\u00a0<em>The Faith of Elvis<\/em>\u00a0believes people don&#8217;t know the true depth of the singer\u2019s Christian faith and that he relied on God for everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s where he got his strength,\u201d he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElvis was so appreciative of what the Lord had given him. He thanked God every day and constantly sought God\u2019s guidance through prayer and reading the Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cEverybody looked at the glitz and glamour [of Presley]. They didn\u2019t look at the man and try to understand his faith. When you\u2019ve spent 17 years with an individual, you get to know him pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stanley recalled Presley reading Bible stories to him and praying with him at bedtime around the age of seven. He said one of his fond memories was of Presley singing gospel music around the house, which he said was similar to \u201csinging the Bible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley also revealed the music star didn\u2019t attend church because he thought attendees would pay more attention him than the preacher.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Faith of Elvis<\/em>\u00a0is due to be published in October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally it was Caroline and my 14<sup>th<\/sup> wedding anniversary on Tuesday and \u201cHow Great Thou Art\u201d was one of the hymns sung at our Service at Holy Rood Church. Elvis\u2019 version, featured today is absolutely wonderful \u2013 what a voice that man had!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2708\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley-19252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley-19252.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley-19252-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley-19252-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley-19252-624x328.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elvis Presley adapting the words of Bob Dylan and Mary Torrans Lathrap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this interesting article in \u201cPremier Christian News\u201d and thought it very much worth sharing. It&#8217;s been revealed that Elvis Presley said a prayer before his performances to settle his nerves and to ask God to bless his concerts. In a new interview with the\u00a0Observer, the rock n&#8217; roll legend&#8217;s stepbrother Bill Stanley, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}