{"id":42586,"date":"2018-06-25T05:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T12:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=42586"},"modified":"2018-06-25T05:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T12:39:50","slug":"my-soul-keeps-your-precepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/25\/my-soul-keeps-your-precepts\/","title":{"rendered":"My soul keeps your precepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"verseid:19.119.161\"><b>Psalms 119:161<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words. \u00a0I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil. \u00a0I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law. \u00a0Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules. \u00a0Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. \u00a0I hope for your salvation, O LORD, and I do your commandments. \u00a0My soul keeps your testimonies; I love them exceedingly. \u00a0I keep your precepts and testimonies, for all my ways are before you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Difficult trials \u2013 even persecution by those in authority \u2013 would not make the Psalmist lose his <b>awe<\/b> of God\u2019s <b>word<\/b>. He did not have a <i>conditional<\/i> appreciation of the word of God; he loved it in good times and bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>I will go the length of saying that unless we do have deep awe of the word we shall never have high joy over it. Our rejoicing will be measured by our reverencing.\u201d (Spurgeon)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>\u201cDo we praise God seven times a day? Do we praise him once in seven days?\u201d (Spurgeon)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>Keep<\/i> the word of God not only with outward actions, but also with you <b>soul<\/b>. Do not be superficia,l but rather deeply root love and conformity to the word of God. In God\u2019s word we find promises we can hope in, trust in, and cling to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 119:161\u00a0\u00a0 Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words. \u00a0I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil. \u00a0I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law. \u00a0Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules. \u00a0Great peace have those who love your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/25\/my-soul-keeps-your-precepts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My soul keeps your precepts&#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":[7294,2985,7366,2021,2369,4,42,1154,56,75,7210,59,2012,7101,65,2209,533,7365,1447,2528,7364,3287,3265],"class_list":["post-42586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-awe","tag-commandments","tag-exceedingly","tag-falsehood","tag-hate","tag-heart","tag-hope","tag-law","tag-love","tag-peace","tag-persecute-me","tag-praise","tag-precepts","tag-princes","tag-rejoice","tag-rules","tag-salvation","tag-spoil","tag-stumble","tag-testimonies","tag-without-cause","tag-word","tag-words"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42586","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=42586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42589,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42586\/revisions\/42589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}