{"id":17508,"date":"2014-02-02T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T05:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=17508"},"modified":"2014-02-01T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T01:20:18","slug":"christlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/02\/christlife\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTLife &#8212; Week Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CHRISTLifepart2coverpic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17467\" alt=\"CHRISTLifepart2coverpic\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CHRISTLifepart2coverpic.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CHRISTLifepart2coverpic.jpg 612w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CHRISTLifepart2coverpic-300x95.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a>Oh! My! \u00a0THIS is going to be a good week! \u00a0Have you read ahead&#8230;or taken a look at this week\u2019s lessons? \u00a0In case you haven\u2019t, here is a sneak peek at just the chapter titles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Called and Chosen<\/li>\n<li>Desired<\/li>\n<li>No Longer Condemned<\/li>\n<li>Clean And More<\/li>\n<li>Alive With His Life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I AM what God says I am (take a glance back at the list)&#8230;and, therefore, I AM all those things! \u00a0Talk about Truth and positive images to write in my inner identity album!<\/p>\n<p>Are you a child of God? \u00a0Have you been redeemed? \u00a0Did Jesus die for you? \u00a0Do you love God? \u00a0<del>If so<\/del>\u00a0Since \u2018YES\u2019 is the resounding reply&#8230; then take the verses below and insert your own name. \u00a0Personalize this Scripture with your own name (like this: &#8220;&#8230;God causes all things to work together for good to &lt;Coleen&gt; who loves God, to &lt;Coleen&gt; who is called&#8230;.&#8221;) \u00a0OK? \u00a0 Perhaps you might read this aloud&#8230;reminding yourself audibly that \u2018I AM what God says I am!\u2019 \u00a0This <strong><em>IS<\/em> <\/strong>the image that God holds of <span style=\"color: #b44094;\">y.o.u.<\/span>! \u00a0This is y.o.u. because <strong>your life IS Christ<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">y.o.u.<\/span>&gt; who loves God, to &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">y.o.u.<\/span>&gt; \u00a0who is called according to His purpose.<br \/>\nFor &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">y.o.u.<\/span>&gt; whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;<br \/>\nAnd &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">y.o.u.<\/span>&gt; whom He predestined, He also called; and &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">y.o.u.<\/span>&gt; whom He called, He also justified; and &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">y.o.u.<\/span>&gt; \u00a0whom He justified, He also glorified.<br \/>\nWhat then shall &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">y.o.u.<\/span>&gt; say to these things? If God is for &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">me<\/span>&gt;, who is against &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">me<\/span>&gt;?<br \/>\nHe who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">me<\/span>&gt;, how will He not also with Him freely give &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">me<\/span>&gt; all things?<br \/>\nWho will bring a charge against God\u2019s elect? God is the one who justifies;<br \/>\nWho is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">me<\/span>&gt;.<br \/>\nWho will separate &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">me<\/span>&gt; from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?<br \/>\nJust as it is written, \u201cFor Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.\u201d<br \/>\nBut in all these things &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">I<\/span>&gt; overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">me<\/span>&gt;.<br \/>\nFor &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">I<\/span>&gt; am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,<br \/>\nNor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">me<\/span>&gt; from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus &lt;<span style=\"color: #b44094;\">my<\/span>&gt; Lord.<br \/>\nRomans 8:28-39 (paraphrased)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(And take a few minutes to go over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/category\/psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs<\/a> blog&#8230;the song that is featured today could just be our \u2018theme song,\u2019 my friends!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh! 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