{"id":3098,"date":"2010-11-06T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2010-11-06T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T02:00:18","slug":"psalm-134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=3098","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 134"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Psalm 134<\/strong> <\/h4>\n<h5>Come, Bless the Lord<\/h5>\n<h6>A Song of Ascents.<\/h6>\n<p>134:1 Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord,<br \/>who stand by night in the house of the Lord!<br \/>2 Lift up your hands to the holy place<br \/>and bless the Lord! <\/p>\n<p>3 May the Lord bless you from Zion,<br \/>he who made heaven and earth! <\/p>\n<p><em>This is the ESV version of the scriptures.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>I love this psalm for a lot of reasons- I am often awake for long periods at night.&nbsp; And sometimes, it seems, that I am called to pray during these sleepless hours.&nbsp; &#8220;Stand&#8221;ing &#8221; by night in the house of the Lord&#8221;- Jesus said His Father&#8217;s house is a house of prayer- so I believe that I am one of those servants lifting up hands in the holy placem making supplication and blessing the name of the Lord.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>I also love to sing this psalm- it is a great lead in to prayer and sets my heart and head into the right place to pray.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>And I love that it includes a blessing from the Lord directed from Zion from our Creator.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>It is also short and sweet but its message is deep- as a song of ascents it is a pilgrim&#8217;s song, ushering us into the presence of the Almighty.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m singing this song tonight- notice that it includes an invitation?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Come&#8221;&nbsp; as in join in!<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>Come and sing with me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 134 Come, Bless the Lord A Song of Ascents. 134:1 Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord,who stand by night in the house of the Lord!2 Lift up your hands to the holy placeand bless the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=3098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualinsights","category-stepsonthejourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}