{"id":915,"date":"2011-08-08T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?page_id=915"},"modified":"2021-12-04T17:54:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T00:54:46","slug":"twenty-third-psalm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/prayers-and-meditations-2\/twenty-third-psalm\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Third Psalm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD<\/strong><\/h3>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">When the Lord <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> your Shepherd, you are in His Presence. When the Lord <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> your Shepherd, you are following Him. When the Lord <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> your Shepherd, you are seeking the Kingdom of God first and His righteousness. When the Lord <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> your Shepherd, you can truly say that you love Him in the context that He placed that love; \u201cIf a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him\u201d (John 14:23). When the Lord <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> your Shepherd, all the promises of this prayer can by yours.<\/span><\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">So what are these promises? Like much in the bible the words of this psalm are subject to many levels of understanding and interpretation. <\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Meditate on them; see where they bring you. Read the posts titled The Good Shepherd (In The Words of Jesus; parts 20-23) where this Great Prayer is addressed in detail.<\/span><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-LORD-is-my-shepherd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-918\" title=\"The LORD is my shepherd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-LORD-is-my-shepherd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1584\" height=\"1223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-LORD-is-my-shepherd.jpg 1584w, https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-LORD-is-my-shepherd-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-LORD-is-my-shepherd-1024x790.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1584px) 100vw, 1584px\" \/><\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD When the Lord is your Shepherd, you are in His Presence. When the Lord is your Shepherd, you are following Him. When the Lord is your Shepherd, you are seeking the Kingdom of God first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/prayers-and-meditations-2\/twenty-third-psalm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":712,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-915","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/915\/revisions\/938"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}