{"id":18100,"date":"2014-02-26T00:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T05:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=18100"},"modified":"2014-02-25T22:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T03:00:34","slug":"watches-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/26\/watches-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Watches Of The Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><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><br \/>\n<strong>~ \u00a0Listen while you read, please! \u00a0~<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I look towards the wintering trees to hush my fretful soul<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> As they rise to face the icy sky and hold fast beneath the snow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Their rings grow wide, their roots go deep that they might hold their height<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And stand like valiant soldiers through the watches of the night<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">No human shoulder ever bears the weight of all the world<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But hearts can sink beneath the ache of trouble&#8217;s sudden surge<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Yet far beyond full knowing there&#8217;s a strong unsleeping Light<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That reaches round to hold me through the watches of the night<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I have cried upon the steps that seem too steep for me to climb<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And I&#8217;ve prayed against a burden I did not want to be mine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But, here I am and this is where You&#8217;re calling me to fight<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And You I will remember through the watches of the night<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> &#8230;You I will remember through the watches of the night<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IIyXwldPup4\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~ \u00a0The Watches of the Night, Mrs. Krysten Getty \/ Getty Music \u00a0~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I venture to say that you, too, have had times of sleeplessness, leading you to prayerfulness and remembering \u2018through the watches of the night.\u2019 \u00a0In each of our lives there are situations and circumstances that seem to be are a burden we do not want to bear.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Truth, my friend: we are not to bear our burdens, our cares, our anxieties, our worries alone. \u00a0Our heavenly Father loves you so much and wants to be the Bearer of your burden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you;<br \/>\nHe will never permit the righteous to be moved.<br \/>\nPsalm 55:22<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day,<br \/>\neven the God Who is our salvation! Selah.<br \/>\nPsalm 68:19<\/p>\n<p>He is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jehovah-Jireh (He Who provides)<\/li>\n<li>Jehovah-Shalom (He Who is our peace)<\/li>\n<li>Jehovah-Rohi (the Shepherd of our souls)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Even to your old age I will be the same,<br \/>\nAnd even to your graying years I will bear you!<br \/>\nI have done it, and I will carry you;<br \/>\nAnd I will bear you and I will deliver you.<br \/>\nIsaiah 46:4<\/p>\n<p>I love this promise from my God&#8230;it settles my heart each time. \u00a0He has already done the bearing of any burden I could ever perceive! \u00a0As Mrs. Getty writes in her poem, \u201cThere&#8217;s a strong unsleeping Light that reaches round to hold me through the watches of the night.\u201d \u00a0Almighty God will carry us throughout any wearisome, worrisome situation we are in. \u00a0His promises are true and Amen!<\/p>\n<p>So I encourage you (me, too!) to always remember God\u2019s heart towards us when we are feeling overwhelmed and burdened. \u00a0He is faithful to His promises, and He cares for you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God,<br \/>\nthat He may exalt you at the proper time,<br \/>\ncasting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.<br \/>\n1 Peter 5:7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ \u00a0Listen while you read, please! \u00a0~ I look towards the wintering trees to hush my fretful soul As they rise to face the icy sky and hold fast beneath the snow Their rings grow wide, their roots go deep that they might hold their height And stand like valiant soldiers through the watches of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[1176,5633,235,1287,2508,425,2898,5632,5631,5630,5628,3582,5629,4932,5627],"class_list":["post-18100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-peter-57","tag-cast-your-burdens","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-gch","tag-getty-music","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-isaiah-464","tag-jehovah-rohi","tag-jehovah-shalom","tag-jehovah-jireh","tag-kristyn-getty","tag-psalm-5522","tag-psalm-6819","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-the-watches-of-the-night","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-4HW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18113,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions\/18113"}],"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=18100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}