{"id":1993,"date":"2021-09-01T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T00:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2021-09-01T03:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T00:02:29","slug":"seeking-god-through-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/01\/seeking-god-through-a-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking God Through A Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?... Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.\" - Psalm 42:1-2, 5<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umcdiscipleship.org\/resources\/history-of-hymns-as-the-deer\">&#8220;As The Deer&#8221; <\/a>written by Martin Nystrom in 1981 from comes from this Psalm and expresses a heartfelt yearning for the Lord&#8217;s presence. It speaks of a thirst so great and so specific that nothing else can possibly quench it but God Himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our big sister Allyra learned this song on the harp lyre and we used it for family devotions. We recorded three versions of the song: (1) Kids singing together, (2) The full version of the song (instrumental only), and (3) Asher&#8217;s Filipino and English version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we sing this song, we pray that the Lord will receive this offering of praise and that our hearts may be opened to be filled with His wonderful presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/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<iframe title=\"As the Deer (English and Filipino version)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJTuyDhgHKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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<iframe title=\"As The Deer (Instrumental on the lyre harp)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sPgfxX2C0vQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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<iframe title=\"&quot;Tulad Ng Usa&quot; (As The Deer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2n1V-mEw8PU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/partner.canva.com\/c\/2975363\/904001\/10068\" target=\"_top\" id=\"904001\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/a.impactradius-go.com\/display-ad\/10068-904001\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/imp.pxf.io\/i\/2975363\/904001\/10068\" style=\"position:absolute;visibility:hidden;\" border=\"0\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As the deer&#8221; sang by the kids as a song offering to the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,23,29,54,35],"tags":[117,295,370,371,409,485,493,528,605,606,629],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-integrated-lessons","category-delight-directed-learning","category-homeschool-blog","category-s-t-e-a-m-activities","category-sign-language-worship","category-wmk-advocacies","tag-as-the-deer","tag-family-worship","tag-harp","tag-harp-lyre","tag-hymns","tag-lyre","tag-martin-nystrom","tag-music","tag-praise-and-worship","tag-praise-song","tag-psalm-42"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderfullymadekids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}