{"id":4677,"date":"2016-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/the-lord-will-fulfill-his-purpose-for-me-your-steadfast-love-o-lord-endures-forever-do-not-forsake-the-work-of-your-hands-psalm-1388-esv\/"},"modified":"2016-12-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:00:00","slug":"the-lord-will-fulfill-his-purpose-for-me-your-steadfast-love-o-lord-endures-forever-do-not-forsake-the-work-of-your-hands-psalm-1388-esv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/the-lord-will-fulfill-his-purpose-for-me-your-steadfast-love-o-lord-endures-forever-do-not-forsake-the-work-of-your-hands-psalm-1388-esv","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands&#8221; (Psalm 138:8 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The psalmist David expressed his confidence that the Lord would &#8220;fulfill His purpose&#8221; for him. He did not ask God to bring to pass his own plans, but that God would &#8220;fulfill&#8221; what He planned for David&#8217;s life. He prayed, &#8220;God use me for the express purpose for which You made me!&#8221; This can be our prayer too. We can join David in praying, &#8220;Lord, fulfill Your purpose for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The psalmist David expressed his confidence that the Lord would &#8220;fulfill His purpose&#8221; for him. He did not ask God to bring to pass his own plans, but that God would &#8220;fulfill&#8221; what He planned for David&#8217;s life. He prayed, &#8220;God use me for the express purpose for which You made me!&#8221; This can be our prayer too. We can join David in praying, &#8220;Lord, fulfill Your purpose for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1471],"oyb_day":[1880],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4677","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1471","oyb_day-december-19"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4677","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=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}