{"id":16227,"date":"2025-04-07T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/?p=16227"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:37:51","slug":"higher-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2025\/04\/07\/higher-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16231\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2025\/04\/07\/higher-love\/higher_than_the_heavens\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/higher_than_the_heavens.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;motorola edge 20&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1741819998&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.88&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;109&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.09&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"higher_than_the_heavens\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/higher_than_the_heavens.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/higher_than_the_heavens.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/higher_than_the_heavens.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/higher_than_the_heavens.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/higher_than_the_heavens.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;line-height:1.5;\">Great is your love, higher than the heavens;<br \/>\nyour faithfulness reaches to the skies.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20108%3A4&#038;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\">Psalm 108:4<\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>From the blog<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2023\/03\/01\/in-the-quiet-of-gods-smile\/\">In the quiet of God\u2019s smile<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2017\/11\/21\/forgiven-and-forgotten\/\">Forgiven and forgotten<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2017\/09\/09\/abide\/\">Abide<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. &nbsp; Psalm 108:4 From the blog In the quiet of God\u2019s smile Forgiven and forgotten Abide &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":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}},"categories":[13],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-16227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","tag-higher"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Higher love - Prayer matters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The psalmist prays: Great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. 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