{"id":3218,"date":"2010-05-13T07:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T12:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2011-10-01T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T13:11:43","slug":"psalms-soap-good-things-come-to-those-who-seek-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/psalms-soap-good-things-come-to-those-who-seek-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalms SOAP: Good things come to those who seek the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Day 13 of the Psalms in 60 Days<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Reading:<\/strong> Psalms 33-34<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scripture: Psalms 34:8<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taste and see that the Lord is good;<\/p>\n<p>blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Observation: <\/strong>The ones who seek out the Lord for protection and guidance will ultimately experience good things. You will see if this if you give it a try.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> Going to the Lord for guidance brings good things. Yesterday I read about how the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/psalms-soap-you-can-get-guidance-from-the-one-in-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Lord wants to mentor me and guide me<\/a>. Today I am reminded that if I do seek Him I will experience his blessings. I think I experienced both of these verses yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a good deal of time in prayer yesterday morning, much more time than I usually do. And I think my day went MUCH better as a result. More than one really icky thing parenting thing was thrown my way yesterday. Amazingly, I was able to stay calm through them. Coincidence? I don&#8217;t think so. I think God was gearing me up in the morning. I think He was setting me straight, preparing me for battle. AAnd when the battles came I prayed silently and handled them with grace.<\/p>\n<p>I took refuge in Him. I sought his guidance. And I tasted and saw that the Lord is good!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer: <\/strong>Lord, thank you so much for your love and grace. Thank you for offereing to help&#8230; and then following through. Thank you for offering such a beautiful reward for simply trusting in you and following you. Please stay close. I need you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow&#8217;s Reading: <\/strong>Psalms 35-36<\/p>\n<p>For the entire 60 Days of Psalms schedule, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/readhearseefeel.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/psalms-in-60-days.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth in the Desert<\/a>. Feel free to jump in our daily reading any day, though&#8230; no need to catch up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 13 of the Psalms in 60 Days Today&#8217;s Reading: Psalms 33-34 Scripture: Psalms 34:8 Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Observation: The ones who seek out the Lord for protection and guidance will ultimately experience good things. You will see if this if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-psalms","tag-psalms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9324,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}