{"id":16881,"date":"2014-01-14T00:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=16881"},"modified":"2014-01-14T06:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T11:02:02","slug":"blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/14\/blessed\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Been Blessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a>How many of you have been sitting around contemplating and pondering the many ways you have been taken care of by God in this world? Not really much discussion needed to help you understand those ways, let the words of this song speak it all to your heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i><strong><em>~ \u00a0Listen while you read, please! \u00a0~<\/em><\/strong><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When He walks among us, all that He does, All of His mercy and all of His love.\u00a0 If the pen of a writer could write every day even this world could never contain just how I&#8217;ve been blessed \/ The warmth in the winter, the flowers in spring, the laughter of summer, and the changing of leaves.\u00a0 Food on my table, a good place to sleep, clothes on my back and shoes on my feet.\u00a0 Oh, I have been blessed.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><i><\/i>I have been blessed, God&#8217;s so good to me, precious are His thoughts of you and me.\u00a0 No way I could count them there&#8217;s not enough time, so I&#8217;ll just thank Him for being so kind.\u00a0 God has been good, so good.\u00a0 I have been blessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Arms that will raise, a voice that can talk, hands that can touch and legs that can walk.\u00a0 Ears that can listen and eyes that can see, oh, I&#8217;ve got to praise Him as long as I breathe.\u00a0 Cause I have been blessed \/ Father and mother, nurtured and raised, my sisters and brothers, memories made.\u00a0 Our pastor to lead us, this altar to pray, Stripes that can heal and a Blood that can save.\u00a0 Oh, I have been blessed.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><i style=\"color: #800080;\">We live in a country, the greatest on earth, our flag stands for freedom and what it is worth.\u00a0 She stands in the harbor, Ms. Liberty calls, all have gave some, but some gave it all for me to be blessed \/ A shoulder to lean on when I am down, a rock where He leads me when I&#8217;m overwhelmed.\u00a0 The place where He hides me under His wings.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not just a song, He&#8217;s the reason I sing, Oh, and I have been blessed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7CnUizRU9HE\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><em>Written by Mike Compton\/performed by the Champion Baptist College Tour Group<\/em><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *<\/span><\/center>Dear God,\u00a0I pray for each precious soul who reads this and listens to this song. Help each one to see and know how many wonderful ways You have always and will always bless us.\u00a0 Thank You, Lord! \u00a0In Your name, I pray.\u00a0 Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you have been sitting around contemplating and pondering the many ways you have been taken care of by God in this world? Not really much discussion needed to help you understand those ways, let the words of this song speak it all to your heart. ~ \u00a0Listen while you read, please! \u00a0~ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[141,3656,5045,5069,1136],"class_list":["post-16881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-beverly-mccormick","tag-blessed","tag-champion-baptist-college-tour-group","tag-i-have-been-blessed","tag-womens-bible-study","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-blessed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16881"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16939,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881\/revisions\/16939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}