{"id":1676,"date":"2013-02-08T07:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T12:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/holywrit\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2013-02-08T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:09:41","slug":"2-samuel-22-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/holywrit\/2013\/02\/2-samuel-22-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Samuel 22: Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div>\n<div>\n<div><em><sup>47\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cThe Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock!<\/em><br>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior!<\/em><br>\n<em><sup>48\u00a0<\/sup>He is the God who avenges me,<\/em><br>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who puts the nations under me,<\/em><br>\n<em><sup>49\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who sets me free from my enemies.<\/em><br>\n<em>You exalted me above my foes;<\/em><br>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from a violent man you rescued me.<\/em><br>\n<em><sup>50\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;<\/em><br>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I will sing the praises of your name.<\/em> -2 Samuel 22:47-50<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The entire chapter of 2 Samuel 22 is a song of praise. But why? It was the result of David\u2019s thanks to God for saving him from his enemies.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We often ask God for things, yet forget to thank him when he provides.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today, pause. How has God answered you lately? Like David, you could make a list. As you do, you\u2019ll find yourself giving thanks to God for his provision.<\/div>\n<div>Don\u2019t rush through this day without taking time to look to the one who has given every answer you need. He is the Lord, the Rock, the one worthy of all our praise.<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Let\u2019s talk about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/holywritproject\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>! Share your thoughts, pictures, or videos on handwriting Scripture.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dillonburroughs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Dillon Burroughs<\/strong><\/a> is the author and coauthor of numerous books and is handwriting a copy of all 31,173 verses of the Bible at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/holywritproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">HolyWritProject.com<\/a>. Find out more about Dillon at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/readdB\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook.com\/readdB<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/readdb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">readdB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>47\u00a0\u201cThe Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior! 48\u00a0He is the God who avenges me, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who puts the nations under me, 49\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who sets me free from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from a violent man you rescued me. 50\u00a0Therefore I will praise you, Lord, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,150,1],"tags":[646,102,773,772,151,152,169],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handwrite-the-entire-bible","category-handwritten-bible","category-handwritten-copies-of-the-bible-2","tag-2-samuel-22","tag-dillon-burroughs","tag-handwrite-the-entire-bible","tag-handwritten-bible","tag-handwritten-bibles","tag-handwritten-copies-of-the-bible","tag-holy-writ-project"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2 Samuel 22: Praise<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"47\u00a0\u201cThe Lord lives! 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