{"id":42424,"date":"2018-06-22T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=42424"},"modified":"2018-06-22T07:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:34:27","slug":"treasures-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/treasures-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasures of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalms 119:145<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O LORD! I will keep your statutes. \u00a0I call to you; save me, that I may observe your testimonies. \u00a0I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. \u00a0My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise. \u00a0Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life. \u00a0They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose; they are far from your law. \u00a0But you are near, O LORD, and all your commandments are true. Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever.<\/p>\n

The Psalmist passionately depended on God and His word, but that did not eliminate the participation of the Psalmist in any way. He still woke early to seek God, in prayer (cry for help<\/b>) that was helped by God\u2019s word (I hope in Your word<\/b>).<\/em><\/p>\n

i. \u201cSo long as the duty only of prayer is known, we shall be content with our set seasons. But when the privilege is felt, we shall be early at work, following it closely morning and night.\u201d (Bridges)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe word furnished his hope, and his hope his prayer.\u201d (Trapp)<\/em><\/p>\n

We use prayer in our study of the word of God; this is essential. Yet we also use the Word of God in our prayers. In prayer, the Word of God shows us:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00b7 The nature and heart of the God we pray to<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00b7 What we have received from God, and should thank Him for<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00b7 His greatness, informing and expanding our praise<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00b7 His moral will, directing us to pray that we can do it<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00b7 His promises to His people, which we claim by faith<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Substance for our prayers, as we pray-read the Scriptures<\/em><\/p>\n

Being diligent in prayer will never leave us destitute of hope.\u00a0\u00a0It is refreshing to know that prayer soon refreshes our heart, mind, and soul with hope, new hope, dependent hope, expectant hope, lasting hope, satisfying hope, delivering hope.\u00a0 This hope is grounded, established, and grown by faith in God.\u00a0 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What is it that we hope for? What is it that occupies our thoughts?\u00a0 What are those longings we seek in the depth of our heart?\u00a0 Is it to know God, serve God, be used by God, to follow God, to honor God, to glorify God, to obey God???<\/p>\n

We do well to give no more than a glance at the the distractions of the world around us and intently focus on the treasures of hope in His word.<\/p>\n

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Psalms 119:145\u00a0\u00a0 With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O LORD! I will keep your statutes. \u00a0I call to you; save me, that I may observe your testimonies. \u00a0I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. \u00a0My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may … Continue reading “Treasures of Hope”<\/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":[2117,455,2985,1752,3368,335,7353,502,7354,2685,42,5181,1154,1704,450,4449,5201,3053,5041,1799,655,2528,775,287,3287],"class_list":["post-42424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-answer-me","tag-awake","tag-commandments","tag-cry-for-help","tag-dawn","tag-draw-near","tag-evil-purpose","tag-eyes","tag-founded-them-forever","tag-hear-my-voice","tag-hope","tag-keep","tag-law","tag-meditate","tag-night","tag-observe","tag-persecute","tag-promise","tag-rise","tag-save-me","tag-statutes","tag-testimonies","tag-true","tag-whole-heart","tag-word"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424","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=42424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42425,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424\/revisions\/42425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}