{"id":3583,"date":"2020-07-10T17:49:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T00:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T00:49:30","slug":"hobart-herd-devotional-psalms-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3583","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Herd Devotional – Psalms 67"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 67<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   This is a Psalm of praise and worship that\nfulfills God\u2019s purpose.  It starts of\nwith a call of for mercy and blessings with part of the priestly prayer of\nNumbers 6:24-26.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

24     The LORD bless you, and keep you; 25    The LORD make His face shine on you, and be\ngracious to you; 26    The LORD lift up\nHis countenance on you, and give you peace.'(NAS)  These represent a priests prayer of for God\u2019s\ngrace and blessings to be on the lives of His people.  We often use this prayer at the end of a\nwedding, or church service as a pray of benediction and blessing on the people\nattending.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   The great part about these verses is that\nthey bring out the purpose of God\u2019s blessings and mercy on His people.  The purpose is not just so that we can be\nblessed and enjoy the life of peace and abundance that God rains down on us;\nbut so that the world as a whole may see that our God is a God Who deserves our\npraise and honor and that His blessings on us show that we have a relationship\nwith Him and He loves and honors us.  The\nreal purpose is so that the world will recognize  our God and fear and honor Him as well.  God deserves all the glory, honor and\nblessings we can show Him.  We were\ncreated to glorify Him with our praise, love and service.(Eph. 2:8-10)  One day every knee shall bow and every tongue\nconfess that Jesus Christ is Lord!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   In verses 3 and 5 we find the repeated theme\nof this Psalm, \u201cMay the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise\nyou.\u201d(NIV)  That is the goal of our\nworship and praise, that the whole world would praise our God together.  As the world sees God\u2019s people in right\nrelationship with Him, they recognize the \u201cways of God\u201d, His \u201csalvation\u201d, and\nthe blessings that come on those who truly worship and praise Him.  The land produces an abundant crop and all\ncreation points to God and His provision for His people.(vs. 4-6)  We are reminded that through this purposeful\npraise and blessing, the world will learn to fear and honor our God.  May the world see God\u2019s mercy and blessings\non our lives in such a way that they will honor and praise God, even if they\ndon\u2019t chose to worship Him.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Father, forgive me for taking advantage of\nthe blessings that You have given me daily. \nI bask in the abundance of Your provision, peace and joy and never give\nYou the proper praise and glory for what You have done for me.  May You use me in such a way that the world\nmight see the love, salvation, mercy, and grace You give me and turn to You in\nhonor and fear.  May the Light of Christ\nshine through my life today.  In Jesus\nName, Amen.  Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 67    This is a Psalm of praise and worship that fulfills God\u2019s purpose.  It starts of with a call of for mercy and blessings with part of the priestly prayer of Numbers 6:24-26.  24     …<\/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\/3583"}],"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=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}