{"id":4018,"date":"2015-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/why-are-you-cast-down-o-my-soul-and-why-are-you-disquieted-within-me-hope-in-god-for-i-shall-yet-praise-him-the-help-of-my-countenance-and-my-god-psalm-4211-nkjv\/"},"modified":"2015-08-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:00:00","slug":"why-are-you-cast-down-o-my-soul-and-why-are-you-disquieted-within-me-hope-in-god-for-i-shall-yet-praise-him-the-help-of-my-countenance-and-my-god-psalm-4211-nkjv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/why-are-you-cast-down-o-my-soul-and-why-are-you-disquieted-within-me-hope-in-god-for-i-shall-yet-praise-him-the-help-of-my-countenance-and-my-god-psalm-4211-nkjv","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhy are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God&#8221; (Psalm 42:11 NKJV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A psalm for the soul. When you are discouraged and &#8220;cast down,&#8221; learn to encourage yourself in the Lord (1 Sam. 30:6). Bring your soul to the Lord. Instruct your soul to &#8220;hope in God&#8221; and &#8220;praise Him.&#8221; Have you not yet learned that a fresh encounter with God in Word and prayer will change the disposition of your soul and therefore your &#8220;countenance,&#8221; putting a smile in place of a frown? Reset your soul&#8217;s hope from its idols and put its hope in God. Worship works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A psalm for the soul. When you are discouraged and &#8220;cast down,&#8221; learn to encourage yourself in the Lord (1 Sam. 30:6). Bring your soul to the Lord. Instruct your soul to &#8220;hope in God&#8221; and &#8220;praise Him.&#8221; Have you not yet learned that a fresh encounter with God in Word and prayer will change the disposition of your soul and therefore your &#8220;countenance,&#8221; putting a smile in place of a frown? Reset your soul&#8217;s hope from its idols and put its hope in God. Worship works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1375],"oyb_day":[1767],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4018","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1375","oyb_day-august-28"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4018","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=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}