{"id":5839,"date":"2023-07-03T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T21:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/joshuajenkins\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2023-07-03T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T21:30:37","slug":"blessed-from-zion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/joshuajenkins\/blessed-from-zion\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed from Zion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span id=\"en-ESV-16176\" class=\"text Ps-134-3\">May the\u00a0<span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>\u00a0bless you\u00a0from Zion,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-134-3\">he who made heaven and earth! (Psalm 134:3)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we come to the Lord\u2019s Table each week near the end of worship, this is one of the ways in which the Lord blesses us, His people. We have blessed His name, and now He blesses us through this communion meal of bread and wine, and His presence with us. As we eat and drink in faith, looking to Christ, the small sustenance our physical bodies receive is a picture of the sustenance our faith receives and is encouraged with as we partake of Christ, who has given Himself to us. So let us give thanks, come, and be blessed by the Lord Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you\u00a0from Zion, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he who made heaven and earth! (Psalm 134:3) As we come to the Lord\u2019s Table each week near the end of worship, this is one of the ways in which the Lord blesses us, His people. We have blessed His name, and now He blesses us through this communion meal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":5840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[211,274,303,567,678,679,699,766,809,880,1206,1816],"class_list":{"0":"post-5839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-theology","8":"tag-blessed","9":"tag-christ","10":"tag-communion","11":"tag-grace","12":"tag-jenkins","13":"tag-jesus","14":"tag-joshua","15":"tag-lords","16":"tag-means","17":"tag-of","18":"tag-supper","19":"tag-zion","20":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/joshuajenkins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/07\/shutterstock_148764716-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5801,"url":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/joshuajenkins\/confession-communion\/","url_meta":{"origin":5839,"position":0},"title":"Confession &amp; Communion","author":"Joshua Jenkins","date":"June 25, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Prayer O Lord our God, we give you praise for your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us. 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