{"id":4564,"date":"2016-11-22T22:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T06:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2016-11-22T22:18:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T06:18:01","slug":"in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/22\/in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"In the morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words.”<\/p>\n

“for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Psalms 5:3
\nO LORD, in the morning<\/strong> you hear my voice<\/strong>; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.<\/p>\n

Psalms 22:2
\nO my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.<\/p>\n

Psalms 55:17
\nEvening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 69:16
\nAnswer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 88:13
\nBut I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 130:6
\nmy soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning<\/strong>, more than watchmen for the morning.<\/p>\n

Mark 1:35
\nAnd rising very early in the morning,<\/strong> while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 26:9
\nMy soul yearns for you in the night;<\/strong> my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.<\/p>\n

Psalms 119:147
\nI rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our hope and strength are in the Lord our God. \u00a0Note the heart of David in many of these scriptures: “my soul yearns” “I wait” “I rise early and cry out to you” “my soul waits” “evening, morning and noon I cry out to you” “I hope in your words”. \u00a0 We find hope in His words (promises). \u00a0Do you find yourself in a place in your life where your walk with God seems luke warm at best? \u00a0You don’t seem to have many troubles and yet you don’t see blessings. \u00a0From past experience I can attest to living in this state of mind. \u00a0I know exactly \u00a0what this is like and when I look back there were actions \/ choices made that allowed me to arrive at this place of christian blah. \u00a0I was very complacent in my walk with Him. \u00a0I was not reading His word. I was not seeking Him. \u00a0I was not placing Him first in my life. \u00a0I was not meditating \/ thinking about what His word. \u00a0I was not praying. \u00a0I was not being a humble servant desiring to bring honor and glory to Him. \u00a0I was living, existing without much care for Him or His plans and purpose for my life. \u00a0He did not leave me there. \u00a0He reached out and dropped a rock on me to get my attention. \u00a0He used my wife to get the word of God and His promises in front of me. \u00a0He placed people around me who spoke His word into my life. \u00a0He restored my soul, desire, hope, joy, purpose. \u00a0When I look back at this I am so thankful and yet at the same time regretful. \u00a0I regret not seeking, desiring to serve, honor, and glorify Him. I regret not staying in His word and being one of those able to speak His word of encouragement into the lives of those hurting or lukewarm. \u00a0I regret all of the time I wasted in not\u00a0serving \u00a0Him. \u00a0I am thankful for His steadfast love and mercy. \u00a0I am thankful for His word of hope, joy, peace and rest. \u00a0I am thankful for His leading. \u00a0I am thankful for those He used to encourage me in my walk with Him. If you find yourself lukewarm get into His word. \u00a0Your life will change, your hope renewed, and purpose made much more clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words.” “for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.” Psalms 5:3 O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch. Psalms 22:2 O my God, I … Continue reading “In the morning”<\/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":[1744,1752,1745,1740,1753,1739,1751,1741,1746,1747,1749,1750,1742,1748,1738,1743],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abundant-mercy","tag-cry-for-help","tag-cry-to-you","tag-evening","tag-i-hope-in-your-words","tag-in-the-morning","tag-learn-righteousness","tag-morning","tag-my-prayer","tag-my-soul-waits","tag-my-soul-yearns-for-you","tag-my-spirit-seeks-you","tag-noon","tag-rise-early","tag-you-hear-my-voice","tag-your-steadfast-love"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564","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=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}