{"id":423,"date":"2012-02-27T04:42:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=423"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:34:08","slug":"psalm-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/27\/psalm-123\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 123"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20123&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span id=\"yui_3_2_0_17_13303080693722700\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Psalm 123<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_17_13303080693722656\">This is another <a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/11\/introduction-to-the-psalms\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Song of Ascents<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Verses 1-2-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%2011.4&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Psalm 11.4<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0reminds us that God sees and trains His eyes on us. It is good, then, for us to train our eyes on Him. This has been illustrated in these studies (for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/08\/1-samuel-17\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Saul and Goliath<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>), when we take our eyes off of God we tend to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Verses 3-4-The only source of mercy is from God, as we come to His House to worship Him corporately, we need to receive that mercy.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_17_13303080693722698\">Where do we look for help? Jesus (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%2017.1&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">John 17.1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>) and Stephen (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts%207.55&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Acts 7.55<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>) both looked to God above during times of persecution. Where do we look for discipleship? It needs to be from God and the people He places in our lives. Who is in your life guiding you through this world, showing God&#8217;s mercy and living His example?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verses 1-2-Psalm 11.4 reminds us that God sees and trains His eyes on us. It is good, then, for us to train our eyes on Him. This has been illustrated in these studies (for example, Saul and Goliath), when we take our eyes off of God we tend to fail.<\/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":[28,123,118,115,26],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-acts","tag-ascent","tag-john","tag-psalm","tag-remember","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}