{"id":1749,"date":"2019-05-03T12:39:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2019-05-03T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:41:09","slug":"ponder-and-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"Ponder and Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we ponder and praise His Word and His Ways in our hearts, we are being fermented inside. He waits patiently, with great excitement and anticipation, as our vintage is prepared for His table.  On our final day, at the end of our final hour He will pop the cork from our bottle of champagne and savor the great LOVE we have for Him as He raises His glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It always has, does, and will come down to LOVE.  When we truly love Him, we naturally love each other.  My sweet Jesus, help me to love You more&#8230; I want to love You with every thought, word, action and breath of my body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 1<br><em>Blessed is the one<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;who does not walk in step with the wicked<br>or stand in the way that sinners take<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;or sit in the company of mockers, <br>but <\/em><strong><em>whose delight is in the law of the&nbsp;Lord<\/em><\/strong><em>,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and <\/em><strong><em>who meditates on his law day and night<\/em><\/strong><em>. <\/em><br><em>That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;which yields its fruit in season<br>and whose leaf does not wither\u2014<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;whatever they do prospers. <br>Not so the wicked!<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They are like chaff<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;that the wind blows away.<br>Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.<br>For the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;watches over the way of the righteous,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we ponder and praise His Word and His Ways in our hearts, we are being fermented inside. He waits patiently, with great excitement and anticipation, as our vintage is prepared for His table. On our final day, at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1749\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[2721,54,394,2711,67,2712,2714,2722,2723,2699,2719,1251,2598,2725,744,92,444,2710,1187,1503,15,2715,55,297,116,802,2716,2717,53,12,51,10,750,1478,2708,296,2713,1080,2718,1209,2720,1175,2724,1211,2709,1186,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-praise","tag-anticipate","tag-best","tag-bottle","tag-champagne","tag-christ","tag-cork","tag-delight","tag-excited","tag-excitement","tag-ferment","tag-fermented","tag-final","tag-final-day","tag-final-hour","tag-fruit","tag-god","tag-heart","tag-his-ways","tag-his-word","tag-holy-spirit","tag-jesus","tag-law-of-the-lord","tag-life","tag-lord","tag-love","tag-mary","tag-meditate","tag-meditate-on-his-law","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-patient","tag-patiently","tag-ponder","tag-praise","tag-psalm-1","tag-saint-mary","tag-streams-of-water","tag-tree","tag-vintage","tag-virgin-mary","tag-wait","tag-water","tag-ways","tag-word","tag-your","tag-your-best-life"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Bernadac","first_name":"Sarah","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}