{"id":12601,"date":"2025-06-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12601"},"modified":"2025-05-27T05:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:31:03","slug":"turn-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/turn-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blue-Animated-Earth-Day-Facebook-Video-Post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blue-Animated-Earth-Day-Facebook-Video-Post.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blue-Animated-Earth-Day-Facebook-Video-Post-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blue-Animated-Earth-Day-Facebook-Video-Post-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Longing for more of the Lord, the psalmist pants for His presence.&nbsp; Like longing for a cold drink on a hot summer day, the writer\u2019s thirst can only find satisfaction in God\u2019s word.&nbsp; Seeking the Lord\u2019s statutes, the psalmist discovers the answers he desires and the grace and mercy he so desperately needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my younger years, amidst strife, when I didn\u2019t have a solid relationship with Jesus, I still sought Him.&nbsp; Feeling alone, and with nowhere else to turn, I would open a Bible, whichever one I found, and start reading, looking for help.&nbsp; And I always found it. Although I can\u2019t remember the exact passages I read in those moments, I know I felt the Lord\u2019s presence, comfort, and support, exactly what I needed in those desperate times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life has a way of knocking us to our knees.&nbsp; Unexpected waves hit us from behind, toppling us to the ground, making us struggle to get back on our feet.&nbsp; In those times, we can rely on the Lord to pick us up and help us once again stand. &nbsp;Memorizing and meditating on God\u2019s promises will give us the support we need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The more we know the Lord\u2019s precepts, the more we\u2019ll want to know.&nbsp; Like the psalmist, we will pant for His commandments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Prayer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lord,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Thank You for guiding and directing us through Your word, giving us a longing for Your commands.&nbsp; Please help us learn and apply Your precepts to our lives, so that we may become faithful servants in all that we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">IJNP. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. Longing for more of the Lord, the psalmist pants for His presence.&nbsp; Like longing for a cold drink on a hot summer day, the writer\u2019s thirst can only find satisfaction in God\u2019s word.&nbsp; Seeking the Lord\u2019s statutes, the psalmist discovers the answers he desires and the grace and mercy he so desperately needs.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/turn-to-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turn to Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12616,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions\/12616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}