{"id":32325,"date":"2018-01-19T03:23:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=32325"},"modified":"2018-01-19T03:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:23:45","slug":"the-rock-of-my-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/19\/the-rock-of-my-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"The rock of my salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"verseid:19.89.26\"><b>Psalms 89:26<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0He shall cry to me, \u2018You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.\u2019 \u00a0And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. \u00a0My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him. \u00a0I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens. \u00a0If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules, \u00a0if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, \u00a0then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes, \u00a0but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness. \u00a0I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:40.26.39\"><b>Matthew 26:39<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, \u201cMy Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:42.23.46\"><b>Luke 23:46<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, \u201cFather, into your hands I commit my spirit!\u201d And having said this he breathed his last.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:43.11.41\"><b>John 11:41<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, \u201cFather, I thank you that you have heard me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:43.20.17\"><b>John 20:17<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Jesus said to her, \u201cDo not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, \u2018I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:58.1.5\"><b>Hebrews 1:5<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For to which of the angels did God ever say, \u201cYou are my Son, today I have begotten you\u201d? Or again, \u201cI will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.18.46\"><b>Psalms 18:46<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation\u2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:19.62.2\"><b>Psalms 62:2<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.\u00a0\u00a0On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:10.22.47\"><b>2 Samuel 22:47<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:23.50.7\"><b>Isaiah 50:7<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0But the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.\u00a0\u00a0He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.\u00a0\u00a0Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"verseid:23.59.21\"><b>Isaiah 59:21<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAnd as for me, this is my covenant with them,\u201d says the LORD: \u201cMy Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children&#8217;s offspring,\u201d says the LORD, \u201cfrom this time forth and forevermore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rock of my salvation. \u00a0We have times we seem to experience being broken and unable to see blessings, joy, peace, and hope. Life happens and is going along fine and then out of the blue it is upside down. \u00a0The rock of my salvation, my refuge, my strength, my hope, my joy, my peace, my defender, my power, my help, and my guidance are all words used by men who looked to God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in times of trouble. \u00a0These men chose to keep in the presence of God at all times. \u00a0\u00a0Keeping close to God and seeking His help is easy in broken and confusing times of our life. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Shouldn&#8217;t we want to desire to be close to God at all times living to humbly serve, honor, follow and obey Him? \u00a0 Holding on to God&#8217;s hand through life is so much easier than running off into things alone. \u00a0Listening to His whispers of guidance each day and staying in communion with Him will keep our heart, mind, and soul focused with hope, joy, and peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 89:26\u00a0\u00a0He shall cry to me, \u2018You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.\u2019 \u00a0And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. \u00a0My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him. \u00a0I will establish his offspring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/19\/the-rock-of-my-salvation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The rock of my salvation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[475,4914,81,5034,3427,2985,97,992,3425,3796,3253,733,425,448,4500,4569,2223,3174,2748,922,5405,1858,6113,165,236,6112,6111,4067,1356,2209,533,517,3215,315,655,511,5515,3898,3287,490],"class_list":["post-32325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-angels","tag-ascended","tag-blessed","tag-brothers","tag-cling","tag-commandments","tag-covenant","tag-cry","tag-declare","tag-disgraced","tag-establish","tag-exalted","tag-false","tag-father","tag-firm","tag-firstborn","tag-forever","tag-forevermore","tag-fortress","tag-guilty","tag-heard-me","tag-heavens","tag-helps-me","tag-jesus","tag-mouth","tag-pass-from-me","tag-possilbe","tag-punish","tag-rock","tag-rules","tag-salvation","tag-shame","tag-son","tag-spirit","tag-statutes","tag-steadfast-love","tag-upon-you","tag-voice","tag-word","tag-your-will"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32327,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions\/32327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}