{"id":17309,"date":"2014-01-30T00:11:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T05:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=17309"},"modified":"2014-01-30T00:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T05:14:12","slug":"faithfullness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/30\/faithfullness\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, <\/span>
\nYour faithfulness to the skies. <\/span>
\nYour righteousness is like the highest mountains, <\/span>
\nYour justice like the great deep. <\/span>
\nYou, Lord, preserve both people and animals. <\/span>
\nHow priceless is Your unfailing love, O God! <\/span>
\nPeople take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. <\/span>
\nThey feast on the abundance of Your house; <\/span>
\nYou give them drink from Your river of delights. <\/span>
\nFor with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. <\/span>
\nContinue Your love to those who know You, <\/span>
\nYour righteousness to the upright in heart. <\/span>
\nPsalms 36:5-10<\/span><\/p>\n

Our God loves us in such a powerful and wonderful way. \u00a0From the beginning of time He has desired to have an intimate relationship with all that dwell here.\u00a0 As the psalmist says, “His love reaches to the heavens.” \u00a0I wonder, could ours reach that far?<\/p>\n

A friend of mine and her husband were awaiting genetic testing results for a disease his mother and aunt have. The period of waiting was beginning to take its toll on each of them. What with their already demanding work (they are both in the medical field), and raising a 12 year old daughter, they have their share of commitments. Finally the results came in—he had no indicators of the disease and all of the symptoms of the disease left hm. \u00a0I know some of you are thinking, \u201cIf he was\/is a believer, then why was he worrying.\u201d \u00a0It is mainly because he does\/did not have a close relationship with God. \u00a0He could have focused on the positive outcome, rather than the negative which would have allowed them both to have truly “lived” this past year.<\/p>\n

As our lives continue and we are faced with new challenges and concerns, we need to remember to keep God first in our thoughts. \u00a0It is a learned thought process, one that is cultivated, and should be encouraged in others. \u00a0Our God delights in us when we truly seek Him and want to know Him.<\/p>\n

* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Father, \u00a0thank You for Your provisions for us Your children. We want to be jealous for You, we want to know You more fully as we begin this new year. \u00a0Show us places where we can improve and where we can be brave enough to share our hearts with You. In Jesus\u2019 name. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. How priceless is Your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They feast on the abundance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":13840,"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":[3020],"tags":[3367,1287,425,5223,5266,5251,5004,3174,1071,3579],"class_list":["post-17309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-gods-faithfulness","tag-keep-god-first","tag-psalms-365-10","tag-seek-him","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-tina-marin","tag-trust-god","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-4vb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17309"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17439,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions\/17439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}