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I love the Lord<\/span>. He heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.<\/p>\n \n Now you can listen to Today’s Verse on iTunes, Spotify, Echo devices, and more!\n <\/p>\n Understanding the Lord<\/span>‘s love, presence, and nearness should lead us to serve him and to deepen our relationship with him. While we love God for many reasons, we especially want to express our love to him today for his personal concern for us – individually for each of us! In a world where important people refuse to spend time with those they consider “beneath them,” we are truly blessed with an incomparable God who listens to our every cry, recognizes our distinct voice, and tunes his ear to hear every one of our whispers. Yes! I will call on the Lord<\/span>! I will praise him, thank him, confess to him, and speak of him and his grace as long as I live!<\/p>\n Father, you know each hair on my head and every thought in my heart. Thank you for hearing my prayers. Thank you for answering so many of them with the answer I sought from you. Please give me patience when I cannot see your hand in the other answers – those that do not come as soon or do not bear the result I had requested. I believe and trust that you are always near, working for my good even when I can’t see it or understand what is happening. I believe you always answer my prayers to your glory and for my best eternal interests. So please, dear Father, strengthen my faith so that I will never outlive my trust and faith in you. In the name of Jesus, I ask for this grace. Amen.<\/p>\n Today’s Verse<\/strong> is a free daily devotional that includes a Bible verse, thought and prayer.<\/p>\n The Thoughts and Prayer on Today’s Verse are written by Phil Ware.<\/p>\n All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. \u00a9 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love the Lord. He heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. Now you can listen to Today’s Verse on iTunes, Spotify, Echo devices, and more! Thoughts on Today’s Verse… Understanding the Lord‘s love, presence, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6472,692,50,51,43],"class_list":["post-31654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bible-trivia","tag-august","tag-monday","tag-psalm","tag-todays","tag-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Thoughts on Today’s Verse…<\/h4>\n
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