{"id":322,"date":"2006-10-10T20:31:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T03:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=322"},"modified":"2006-10-09T20:32:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T03:32:06","slug":"my-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/my-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"My Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Psalm 35:1).<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that sounds good to me. Really good. Very, very, super good.<\/p>\n<p>I really would like the Lord to take up my case and my cause. I want Him to stand up for me, to be my defender, to be on my side. I would be delighted if He would reason with my opponents and detractors, if He would open their eyes to the truth, if He would open their hearts to me.<\/p>\n<p>Then I wonder, whom do I know that is praying that same prayer regarding <i>their<\/i> adversaries . . . and have <i>me<\/i> in mind?<\/p>\n<p>Oh wow!<\/p>\n<p>May the Lord open <i>my<\/i> eyes to the truth about them. May He open <i>my<\/i> heart to them.<\/p>\n<p>That, too, is what I want.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me&#8221; (Psalm 35:1). Yeah, that sounds good to me. Really good. Very, very, super good. I really would like the Lord to take up my case and my cause. I want Him to stand up for me, to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-5c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}