{"id":247,"date":"2010-09-14T07:11:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/?p=247"},"modified":"2015-08-27T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:59:06","slug":"psalm-109-esv-devotional-and-iphoneapp-%e2%80%93-give-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/psalm-109-esv-devotional-and-iphoneapp-%e2%80%93-give-thanks\/247","title":{"rendered":"Give Thanks! – Psalm 109 ESV 2 Minute Devotional"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PsalmWhy do we thank people? Normally it’s because they have done something for us and we feel some debt of gratitude. We should say “thank you” much more often – to our spouse, children, friends, pastor and others for what they do for us.
\n
It is especially true that we should thank God more often. As Psalm 109 says, we should give “great thanks” to the lord. We should also understand that we are the “needy one” and God has saved us from death.
\n
I love this picture of “Mr. Beaver.” It looks like it came from a Disney movie. With a raised paw he seems to be admonishing us to “Give thanks to God! Give thanks!”<\/p>\n

\n

I hope you have been blessed by Psalm 109 and the accompanying image taken from the\u00a0Psalm Daily Quotes ESV<\/a> iPhone app. Please visit our\u00a0blog<\/a>,\u00a0twitter<\/a>, or\u00a0Facebook<\/a> page regularly and pass these posts on to friends that need an encouraging word.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why do we thank people? Normally it’s because they have done something for us and we feel some debt of gratitude. We should say “thank you” much more often – to our spouse, children, friends, pastor and others for what they do for us. It is especially true that we should thank God more often. … <\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,237],"tags":[12,11,87,15,10,14,88],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm-daily-quote-for-iphone","category-thanksgiving-daily-psalms-for-iphone","tag-devotional","tag-esv","tag-give","tag-iphone-app","tag-psalm","tag-quote","tag-thanks","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsofmerritt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}