{"id":892,"date":"2024-02-21T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=892"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:55:19","slug":"21st-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"21st February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 8 \u201cHow majestic is Your name in all the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During morning prayer we pause after the first phrase to bless His holy name, this is always a special moment as people in the room share what God means to them on that day.&nbsp; This Psalm goes on to talk about what we mean to God too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong><sup>3&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>When I consider your heavens,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the work of your fingers,<br>the moon and the stars,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;which you have set in place,<br><strong><sup>4&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>what is mankind that you are mindful of them,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;human beings that you care for them?<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%208&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-14017c\">c<\/a>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><sup>5&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>You have made them<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%208&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-14018d\">d<\/a>]<\/sup>&nbsp;a little lower than the angels<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%208&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-14018e\">e<\/a>]<\/sup><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and crowned them<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%208&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-14018f\">f<\/a>]<\/sup>&nbsp;with glory and honour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, we see a phrase from the Renew Morning prayer \u201cHe crowns you with glory and honour.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s never forget that our relationship with God is a two way thing, here is one of my favourite worship songs from recent years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In Christ Alone (My Hope Is Found) - Adrienne Liesching | LYRIC VIDEO\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rn9-UNer6MQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 8 \u201cHow majestic is Your name in all the earth.\u201d During morning prayer we pause after the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}