{"id":5193,"date":"2023-12-03T06:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2023-12-03T06:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T12:20:01","slug":"devotional-on-the-psalms-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-the-psalms-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on the Psalms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-E2ZJiedHEDc\/X2UGfLBJBnI\/AAAAAAABGg8\/LGRiMLJddt04rnPZZH7DDakxBPqJAu86wCPcBGAsYHg\/s640\/DSCN2709.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2004 &#8211; Big Island, Hawaii<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA song of praise<br \/>\nPsalm 138: Thank you! Everything in me says, &#8220;Thank you!&#8221;<br \/>\nIn this psalm David immerses himself in thanksgiving.  God is good to him and he\u2019s filled to overflowing with thanks.  He imagines the angels of heaven stepping aside and stilling their voices to hear his song of thanks.  That grateful spirit drives his worship and gives him strength.  If David, without the story of Good Friday, who lives hundreds of years before some unknown person dreams up doing the horror of doing executions on a cross; if David can be overwhelmed with thanksgiving then I ought to at least be ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with him in this song of praise.  So today, David&#8217;s song of thanks becomes mine.  Thank you, Lord &#8212; thank you from the depth of my being &#8212; thank you with all my strength.  Angels step back. Listen as I call out to God my song of thanks.<br \/>\nTake Away: Praise the Lord \u2013 he\u2019s worthy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song of praise Psalm 138: Thank you! Everything in me says, &#8220;Thank you!&#8221; In this psalm David immerses himself in thanksgiving. God is good to him and he\u2019s filled to overflowing with thanks. He imagines the angels of heaven stepping aside and stilling their voices to hear his song of thanks. That grateful spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,7],"tags":[148,232,843,941,1070],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14826,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions\/14826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}