{"id":3918,"date":"2015-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/i-will-be-glad-and-rejoice-in-your-mercy-for-you-have-considered-my-trouble-psalm-317-nkjv\/"},"modified":"2015-08-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T00:00:00","slug":"i-will-be-glad-and-rejoice-in-your-mercy-for-you-have-considered-my-trouble-psalm-317-nkjv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/i-will-be-glad-and-rejoice-in-your-mercy-for-you-have-considered-my-trouble-psalm-317-nkjv","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, for You have considered my trouble&#8221; (Psalm 31:7 NKJV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Psalm of David teaches us to choose gladness and worship, while giving our troubles to God. David wrote that God had &#8220;considered&#8221; his trouble. In other words David had stopped thinking about his troubles and had given them to God for His consideration. This is how the disciples prayed too, &#8220;Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness&#8221; (Acts 4:29). When we continue to consider our own trouble it leads to discouragement and worry. But when we give them to God, it opens the way to gladness and rejoicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Psalm of David teaches us to choose gladness and worship, while giving our troubles to God. David wrote that God had &#8220;considered&#8221; his trouble. In other words David had stopped thinking about his troubles and had given them to God for His consideration. This is how the disciples prayed too, &#8220;Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness&#8221; (Acts 4:29). When we continue to consider our own trouble it leads to discouragement and worry. But when we give them to God, it opens the way to gladness and rejoicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1364],"oyb_day":[1748],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3918","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1364","oyb_day-august-9"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}