{"id":491,"date":"2012-03-06T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T02:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=491"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:21:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:21:31","slug":"psalm-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/03\/06\/psalm-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%2021&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Psalm 21<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Verses 1-2-David is praising God for granting him the desires of his heart. David recognizes that although he is king, there is One still over him.<\/p>\n<p><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;\">Selah<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>-What are your desires? If God were to grant you the desires of your heart, what would they be? Have you made them known to Him? Would He approve?<\/p>\n<p>Verses 3-7-David lists why he rejoices in and praises God. God has blessed him with his position\u00a0in life and has allowed him to enter into\u00a0the presence of God.<\/p>\n<p>Verses 8-12-David recognizes that all the enemies of God are also his enemies. Do we treat life like this? How often do you consider your sin as God&#8217;s enemy? How about the activities your people around you engage in, are they working for or against God?<\/p>\n<p>Verse 13-David ends as he began. This time he invites all those who heard his praise to rejoice in God with him.<\/p>\n<p>Some have connected this psalm with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%2020&amp;amp;version=NASB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Psalm 20<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> because of the similarities between 20.4 and 21.1. Some see chapter twenty as a prayer for victory and chapter 21 as the answer to that prayer. It sounds plausible but not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Are you praising God for your current circumstances in such a way that those around you desire to join in with your praise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you praising God for your current circumstances in such a way that those around you desire to join in with your praise?<\/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":[36,170,115],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-david","tag-praise","tag-psalm","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}