{"id":1691,"date":"2024-03-25T07:50:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T21:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2024-03-25T07:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T21:51:07","slug":"prayer-for-the-discouraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/2024\/03\/25\/prayer-for-the-discouraged\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the discouraged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Verse of the day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Psalm 40:17<\/strong><strong> As for me, since I am poor and needy, let the Lord keep me in his thoughts.&nbsp;You are my helper and my savior. O my God, do not delay.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so glad the Lord does keep me in His thoughts.&nbsp;He doesn\u2019t sleep or slumber (Ps 121:4-5).&nbsp;He is never \u201cout to lunch.\u201d&nbsp;He is always there, ready to answer when I seek him.&nbsp;I am praying for you all today that you will sense His presence and find rest in knowing He is with you. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As David reflected on how God had lifted him out of despair, and how God set him on solid ground (Ps 40:1-2) He says, \u201cMany will see what he has done and be amazed.&nbsp;They will put their trust in the Lord.\u201d&nbsp;I pray that will be your experience of God\u2019s grace in your lives today.&nbsp;I pray as you meditate on God\u2019s character and His faithfulness that He will lift you up out of the mire. I pray also that as you experience God lifting you out of the mire of discouragement or anxiousness, that you will be an encouragement to those around you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He keeps you in His thoughts.&nbsp;Jer 29:11 \u201cFor I know&nbsp;the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the&nbsp;Lord, \u201cplans to prosper you and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/logosres\/LLS:1.0.10;ref=bible$2Bniv.24.29.11;pos=res$2FLLS:1.0.10$2F2023-06-01T13:01:42Z$2F2710009\">not to harm you<\/a>, plans to give you hope and a future.\u201d He longs for your life to be His instrument to reveal the invisible God to the world. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May David\u2019s prayer be yours today also: Let your unfailing love and faithfulness always protect me. (Ps 40:11) May all who search for you be filled with joy and gladness in you. May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout, \u201cThe Lord is great!\u201d (Ps 40:16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verse of the day: Psalm 40:17 As for me, since I am poor and needy, let the Lord keep me in his thoughts.&nbsp;You are my helper and my savior. O my God, do not delay.&nbsp; I am so glad the Lord does keep me in His thoughts.&nbsp;He doesn\u2019t sleep or slumber (Ps 121:4-5).&nbsp;He is never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[130605],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-prayers-for-gods-comfort","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}