{"id":9061,"date":"2025-05-01T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:46:07","slug":"as-the-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=9061","title":{"rendered":"As the deer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our reading plan started Psalms, Book 2 (42 &#8211; 72) last Monday. I know I&#8217;m a bit behind here, but I wanted to share with you the song inspired by Psalm 42&#8217;s opening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. (Psalm 42.1, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a lovely rendition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_tv0eu-xbU0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here are the lyrics so you can follow along:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Verse 1\nAs the deer panteth for the water\nSo my soul longeth after Thee\nYou alone are my heart\u2019s desire\nAnd I long to worship Thee.\n\nRefrain\nYou alone are my Strength, my Shield\nTo You alone may my spirit yield\nYou alone are my heart\u2019s desire\nAnd I long to worship Thee.\n\nVerse 2\nYou\u2019re my Friend and You are my Brother\nEven though You are a King.\nI love You more than any other\nSo much more than anything.\n\nRefrain\n\nVerse 3\nI want You more than gold or silver\nOnly You can satisfy.\nYou alone are the real joy-giver\nAnd the apple of my eye.\n\nRefrain\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our reading plan started Psalms, Book 2 (42 &#8211; 72) last Monday. I know I&#8217;m a bit behind here, but I wanted to share with you the song inspired by Psalm 42&#8217;s opening: As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. (Psalm 42.1, NIV) Here&#8217;s a lovely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=9061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As the deer&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-2m9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9063,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/9063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}