{"id":9,"date":"2006-08-14T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-08-14T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T02:48:00","slug":"praise-repentance-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/praise-repentance-and-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise, Repentance, and Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em><br \/><em>As you read the following, ask God what He wants you to learn and to do. I was much encouraged this morning, and even more so this evening, as I reread this passage. I&#8217;ll not take time to comment tonight, but I will try to tell you later how God is working in the my life and in the lives of my family members. He has already won the victories for eternity. &#8220;Our God is an awesome God!&#8221; &#8220;He alone is worthy of our praise.&#8221; Hallelujah! <\/em><em>Praise our mighty King and wonderful Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Praise our Lord in and through the Holy Spirit in all that you do. &#8211;Amen<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>16 Come and listen, all you who fear God;<\/em> <em>let me tell you what he has done for me. 17 I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue.<\/em> <em>18 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; 19 but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer. 20 Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me! (Psalm 66:16-20)<\/p>\n<p>1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us, Selah 2 that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations. 3 May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. 4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth. Selah 5 May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. 6 Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us. 7 God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him. <\/em>(Psalm 67:1-7)<\/p>\n<p>1 May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him. 2 As smoke is blown away by the wind, may you blow them away; as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God. <em>3 But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful. 4 Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds&#8211; his name is the Lord&#8211; and rejoice before him. 5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,<\/em> <em>is God in his holy dwelling.<\/em> 6 <strong><em>God sets the lonely in families<\/em><\/strong>, he leads forth the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land. (Psalm 68:1-6)<\/p>\n<p>New International Version<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you read the following, ask God what He wants you to learn and to do. I was much encouraged this morning, and even more so this evening, as I reread this passage. I&#8217;ll not take time to comment tonight, but I will try to tell you later how God is working in the my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/praise-repentance-and-faith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Praise, Repentance, and Faith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5z4LD-9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/fred\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}