{"id":673,"date":"2010-07-25T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2010-07-25T17:34:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T21:34:47","slug":"i-will-praise-you-o-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"I will praise you, O LORD &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart;<br \/>\nI will tell of all Your marvelous works.<br \/>\nI will be glad and rejoice in You;<br \/>\nI will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Psalms 9:1-2 NKJV)<\/p>\n<p>I will praise You, O LORD!<\/p>\n<p>Lord, I am Your child. . .a pilgrim passing through this world looking for the city that You have promised.<\/p>\n<p>As You know, Father, I do not live this life perfectly, but one thing I commit to You, I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart.<\/p>\n<p>You have given birth to praise in my life through the Lamb that was slain.  You have created praise in me.   You have caused it to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So, when I climb the peak of the sun-crested mountain,<\/p>\n<p>I will praise You.<\/p>\n<p>And when I descend into the dark valley,<\/p>\n<p>I will praise You.<\/p>\n<p>When I stand alone in the harsh desert,<\/p>\n<p>I will praise You.<\/p>\n<p>I will praise you whether or not I can see, hear,<\/p>\n<p>smell, touch, laugh or hope.<\/p>\n<p>I will praise You whether I feel loved and comforted<\/p>\n<p>or hated and rejected.<\/p>\n<p>I will praise You through the ridicule and roar of the evil one.<\/p>\n<p>When the smoke has cleared and the fire has done its work, when the dust of this life has settled, I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart because You are worthy of praise.<\/p>\n<p>A meditation of praise by dave scott. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. (Psalms 9:1-2 NKJV) I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=673\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-aR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}