{"id":2170,"date":"2013-02-01T00:18:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2013-02-04T00:21:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T05:21:22","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-02-01-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/01\/pearls-of-wisdom-02-01-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 02-01-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>God Is My Rock, Part 1<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Psalm 92:15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;He is my Rock and there is no unrighteousness in Him.<\/p>\n<p>That word Rock in this passage means figuratively, refuge. \u00a0It means Mighty God or Mighty One.<\/p>\n<p>God is our refuge, a God of Might and Power. \u00a0We can depend on Him to keep us in His Righteousness and Power. \u00a0We must look to Him to keep us in these unpredictable and disturbing times. \u00a0He alone is our steadfast, immovable Source. \u00a0We must have confidence in Him and His care for us as His children.<\/p>\n<p>God alone is our Rock.<\/p>\n<p>For our study on God our Rock, let\u2019s define Rock as it appears in the Old Testament and New Testament and in the dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>In the Old Testament there are two words for God our Rock. \u00a0One Hebrew word means Refuge, Mighty God, Mighty One. \u00a0The other Hebrew word means Lofty, Fortress or Stronghold. \u00a0In the New Testament, the word means rock, something solid and stable and immovable. \u00a0In the 1828 Webster Dictionary, the scriptural meaning of rock is defense, means of safety, protection, strength, asylum, firmness, a firm or immovable foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Keep these definitions in mind as we study each scripture.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 18:2<\/p>\n<p>The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.<\/p>\n<p>This scripture is self-explanatory and a good one to confess today. \u00a0Why don\u2019t we all make this our confession today!<\/p>\n<p>Confession:<\/p>\n<p>The Lord is my Rock, my Lofty One. \u00a0He is my Fortress, my place of safety. \u00a0He is my deliverer and my God. \u00a0He is my strength. \u00a0God is the One in Whom I will trust. \u00a0He is my buckler, my protective shield. \u00a0He is the horn or power of my salvation or deliverance and safety. \u00a0He is my High Tower, the place where I am seated with Him far above all principalities and powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God Is My Rock, Part 1 Psalm 92:15. &#8230;He is my Rock and there is no unrighteousness in Him. That word Rock in this passage means figuratively, refuge. \u00a0It means Mighty God or Mighty One. God is our refuge, a God of Might and Power. \u00a0We can depend on Him to keep us in His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}