{"id":544,"date":"2008-04-18T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-04-18T04:35:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:35:42","slug":"our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/our-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Children"},"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 144<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I came to this verse&#8230;and grabbed it:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (12).<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like sons that I want &#8212; strong, sturdy, firm, sound, grounded, healthy, fruitful, useful, attractive.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like daughters that I want &#8212; anchored, anchors, useful, solid, unmoving, dependable, sturdy, sound, strong, attractive, useful.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the kind of children and grandchildren I want!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, indeed &#8212; <b><font color=brown>&#8220;Happy is that people&#8221;<\/font><\/b>!!!!<\/p>\n<p>But the odds of my children having that kinds of spiritual character, power, and success likely decrease significantly if their dad doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So I cry out with David . . . .<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (7).<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (11).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/blessedbethelordmy-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/blessedbethelordmy-s.jpg\" alt=\"[Blessed be the LORD my strength...my goodness...my fortress...my high tower...my deliverer...my shield...he in whom I trust (Psalm 144:1,2)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Psalm 144:1,2<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Psalm 144:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8464\"><font color=green>Happy Is That People<\/font><\/a><\/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 144 I came to this verse&#8230;and grabbed it: &#8220;That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace&#8221; (12). That sounds like sons that I want &#8212; strong, sturdy, firm, sound, grounded, healthy, fruitful, useful, attractive. [&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-544","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-8M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}