{"id":920,"date":"2024-05-01T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=920"},"modified":"2024-04-26T10:41:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T10:41:51","slug":"1st-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"1st May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 18 \u201cThe Lord is my rock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this week\u2019s Psalm, David is thankful for deliverance from his enemies and that God has been his rock through what must have been very frightening times.&nbsp; Psalm 46 says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>1<\/strong> God is our refuge and strength,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a very present<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%2046&amp;version=NRSVUE#fen-NRSVUE-14616a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>&nbsp;help in trouble.<br><strong><sup>2&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea,<br><strong><sup>3&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>though its waters roar and foam,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;though the mountains tremble with its tumult.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find this reassuring when looking at our war-torn world as well as in the quiet moments of worry in the night.&nbsp; Several years ago I had to have brain surgery to remove a benign tumour, despite months of worry in the build up to the operation, I prayed to God for calm and on the morning of the operation as I walked into the theatre I felt completely calm which I\u2019m sure made it much easier on the medical staff.&nbsp; Although long; the operation was a success, having God as my rock made the whole experience so much easier to deal with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever is troubling you today, lean on our rock and He will help ease the burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 18 \u201cThe Lord is my rock.\u201d In this week\u2019s Psalm, David is thankful for deliverance from his<\/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-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}