{"id":514,"date":"2008-02-11T11:31:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T20:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=514"},"modified":"2016-06-17T21:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T04:52:24","slug":"why-should-i-praise-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/why-should-i-praise-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should I Praise the Lord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=130 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Psalm 117<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>When the day is dark and the night is fearsome, why should I praise the Lord?<\/p>\n<p>When the sea is rough and the waves keep driving me under, why should I praise the Lord?<\/p>\n<p>When my failures stack up and my weaknesses become more apparent, why should I praise the Lord?<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (2).<\/p>\n<p>Oh. So <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> why I should praise the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>That makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the real question in my heart is not &#8220;Why?&#8221; but &#8220;How can I?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I need help.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m sorry to be so dark and negative.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/praiseyethelord-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/praiseyethelord-s.jpg\" alt=\"[Praise ye the Lord (Psalm 117:1)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Psalm 117:1<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Psalm 117:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8370\"><font color=green>Praise Him, Mark!<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=1>Written shortly after seven this morning.<\/font><\/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>Reading: Psalm 117 When the day is dark and the night is fearsome, why should I praise the Lord? When the sea is rough and the waves keep driving me under, why should I praise the Lord? When my failures stack up and my weaknesses become more apparent, why should I praise the Lord? &#8220;For [&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-514","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-8i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}