{"id":336,"date":"2012-02-15T20:51:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T04:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=336"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:31:14","slug":"psalm-141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/15\/psalm-141\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 141"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+141&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Psalm 141<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A friend wrote a song based on this passage. <a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/15\/psalm-141-joel\/u8230%20\/'85liday-19751976\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here are the lyrics<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. I may place the music online as-well later this week.<\/p>\n<p>David, according to the title, is seeking not to be consumed by evil.<\/p>\n<p>Verses 1-2-David calls out to the only one who can truly help. That one is God. David shows the importance of\u00a0prayer. It is a sacrifice to God. What are you in prayer for today? When you are overwhelmed with evil (read comments from <a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/15\/psalm-140\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Psalm 140<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>), to whom do you turn?<\/p>\n<p>Verses 3-4-David knows our tendency to sin (as did Paul in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans%207&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Romans 7<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). He realized that he would begin to sin if God did not intervene. Are we that aware of our own propensity to sin? We need God to keep us from sin.<\/p>\n<p>Verses 5-7-David knows accountability is key to growth. It is not the words of the flatterer he is seeking. His desire\u00a0is for truth to be told him, no matter how painful. Who is in your life to help you honestly view your life?<\/p>\n<p>Verses 8-10-He calls to God one more time for deliverance. He is persistent in prayer, are we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 141<br \/>\nDavid, according to the title, is seeking not to be consumed by evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114],"tags":[36,127,24,115,85,33],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-david","tag-evil","tag-god","tag-psalm","tag-romans","tag-scripture","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}