{"id":25127,"date":"2025-06-18T03:45:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25127"},"modified":"2025-06-18T03:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:45:58","slug":"bless-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/06\/bless-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless The Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 16: &#8220;Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.\u00a0O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; but to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.\u00a0Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.\u00a0The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.\u00a0The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.\u00a0I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.\u00a0I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.\u00a0Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.\u00a0For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.\u00a0Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25127\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 16: &#8220;Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.\u00a0O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; but to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.\u00a0Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.\u00a0The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-triune-jehovah","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25130,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions\/25130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}