{"id":3204,"date":"2020-04-30T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2020-04-30T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:12:14","slug":"hobart-herd-devotional-psalms-3-4-29-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3204","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Herd Devotional &#8211; Psalms 3 &#8211; 4-29-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 3 \u2013\n4-29-20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; It is thought by most that David wrote\nPsalms 3 when he was on the run from his son, Absalom.&nbsp; The name Absalom means, \u201cfather of\npeace\u201d.&nbsp; What a name given to someone who\ntried to kill his own father and take over the throne of Israel.&nbsp; Can you imagine David\u2019s heart when he has to\nrun for his life from the capital city of Jerusalem and hide out from his own\nson.&nbsp; One morning he is a king sitting on\nhis throne, and the next he is a king on the run as his son has persuaded many\nof the leaders and people of Israel that David needs to be removed and killed.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 We all know that David was anointed by Samuel as King over Israel and David was the greatest king Israel ever had.\u00a0 He defeated their enemies, established their capital city by taking Jerusalem, he encouraged and led that nation in their worship of God, and David covenanted with God that his throne would be forever.\u00a0 Jesus from the lineage of David will eventually rule and reign over all the earth from the very throne of David.\u00a0 This covenant with God was part of our salvation and would be kept and proven by Jesus in His first coming and fulfilled in full by the Lord\u2019s second coming.\u00a0 So when this revolution and takeover was done by Absalom, David\u2019s faith was tested in the most devastating way ever.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 What blesses my heart is to see how David responds before God when these terrible times fall upon him.\u00a0 Psalms 3:3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.(KJV)\u00a0 When the greatest heart breaking events happened, David knew that the Lord was His shield, would protect his glory and lift up his head.\u00a0 We sing a worship chorus that comes from this verse, and we will sing it this Sunday for church.\u00a0 We, like David have been made by faith a part of God\u2019s family.\u00a0 We can truly trust that no matter what happens around us, we have a God Who is our shield and will bring glory in lifting our heads from the heart breaking things that happen to us.\u00a0 When David cried out to the Lord, the Lord heard him, gave him rest and sustained him through all of this devastating pain.(vs. 4)\u00a0 David knew that no matter how many tens of thousands turned against him, God was on His side and His salvation was sure and true.\u00a0 O that we would trust in the Lord with this kind of faith.\u00a0 You can cry out to Him in the midst of your most horrific struggle and know that God will be your Shield of protection and will bring glory, lifting your head from despair through it all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Father, What a wonderful God You are.&nbsp; When You make a promise, You are faithful to\nkeep it.&nbsp; When we are included in the New\nCovenant of Jesus blood through faith, You are truly our Salvation and Shield!&nbsp; May I always know that You are there for me\nin my darkest hour, and may You lift my head in faith as I watch You turn\neverything around for Your glory.&nbsp; May\nYou receive all the glory from my life in everything that happens.&nbsp; In Jesus Name, AMEN!&nbsp; Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 3 \u2013 4-29-20 &nbsp;&nbsp; It is thought by most that David wrote Psalms 3 when he was on the run from his son, Absalom.&nbsp; The name Absalom means, \u201cfather of peace\u201d.&nbsp; What a name given &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}