{"id":10353,"date":"2025-03-12T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=10353"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:51:47","slug":"zephaniah-317-the-lord-your-god-in-your-midst-the-mighty-one-will-save-he-will-rejoice-over-you-with-gladness-he-will-quiet-you-in-his-love-he-will-rejoice-over-you-with-singing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=10353","title":{"rendered":"Zephaniah 3:17: &#8220;The LORD your God in your midst, \/ The Mighty One, will save; \/ He will rejoice over you with gladness, \/ He will quiet you in His love, \/ He will rejoice over you with singing.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This verse is a wonder to every believer, and there is a popular praise song based on it. There are five parts to this verse, and they give us an amazing picture of the heart of the Lord:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> His presence is with His children.<br \/>\n<strong>2)<\/strong> He has the power and the desire to give salvation.<br \/>\n<strong>3)<\/strong> He rejoices over us because He loves us.<br \/>\n<strong>4)<\/strong> He will give us rest, peace, and quiet in His arms of love.<br \/>\n<strong>5)<\/strong> And lastly, when the silence is broken, it is replaced with His voice singing over us.<\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew word for <em>joy<\/em> here is <em>geal<\/em>, which literally means to &#8220;spin around under the influence of a great emotion.&#8221; Have you ever been so happy you spun around?<\/p>\n<p>We place a lot of emphasis in church on our singing worship songs, but we can hardly wait until the day we get to hear God sing. There is a similar New Testament verse that is also intriguing. Jesus was with his disciples at the Last Supper, and they sang a psalm together and then went out to the Mount of Olives. We wonder if there is a recording of that moment of Jesus singing with His disciples in heaven. Jesus will sing again, as He rejoices over you with singing.<\/p>\n<p>God delights in you. Now that is a big idea, right? It doesn&#8217;t matter if you are struggling, your attitude is terrible, you are depressed, divorced, or disappointed\u2014God delights in you. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are caught up in a pity party, your friends have abandoned you, your kids are a mess, and your job in a disaster. God delights in you so much, He is singing. Listen carefully and maybe you can catch His voice right now.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;LORD, we continue to fall, but You pick us up. We continue to miss the mark, but You cleanse us when we don&#8217;t deserve it. You are awesome!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This verse is a wonder to every believer, and there is a popular praise song based on it. There are five parts to this verse, and they give us an amazing picture of the heart of the Lord: 1) His presence is with His children. 2) He has the power and the desire to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15422,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions\/15422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}