{"id":18166,"date":"2014-03-05T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T05:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=18166"},"modified":"2014-03-04T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T23:37:47","slug":"victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/05\/victory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Struggle &#8212; Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>~ \u00a0Listen while you read, please! \u00a0~<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There&#8217;s a wreckage, there&#8217;s a fire; there&#8217;s a weakness in my love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> There&#8217;s a hunger I can&#8217;t control<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Lord, I falter and I fall down then I hold on to chains You broke<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When You came and saved my soul&#8230;saved my soul<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Hallelujah! we are free to struggle<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0We&#8217;re not struggling to be free<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your blood bought and makes us children<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Children, drop your chains and sing<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So, why, Lord, do I still fail, do I wear thin?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Why do I still give in to temptation?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> On my own, I am bankrupt,\u00a0I don&#8217;t trust You or take You at Your Word<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> What You&#8217;ve promised, yeah<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Hallelujah,\u00a0Death is overcome and we are breathing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Hallelujah,\u00a0Our stone hearts become flesh that&#8217;s beating<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Hallelujah,\u00a0Chains have been undone and we are singing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Hallelujah,\u00a0The fire has begun. Can you feel it?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xSH3Q6O_7w8\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">~ \u00a0Performed by Tenth Avenue North \u00a0~<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Do we ever struggle some days! \u00a0Sometimes it may be\u00a0a struggle to get out of bed, or to complete a task at work, or even to complete a task at home. \u00a0When we find ourselves at our wits&#8217; end because we have been trying\u00a0to do everything on our own, it is time to stop, pray, and give it to the only One that can help us through&#8212;<em><strong>God<\/strong><\/em>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I know, that is such an easy answer. \u00a0But you know what, He <em><strong>IS<\/strong> <\/em>the answer. \u00a0Yes, we are to do what we are designed\u00a0to do. \u00a0But if we start whatever task that is laid before us by preparing our hearts and asking for His help on the front end&#8212;it will go so much smoother &lt;and less making faces or sighing when we just want to throw something, even if it is the cat or child&#8230;ha, ha!&gt;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Try for the next few days to start any thing you do with a prayer of thanksgiving and entreaty. \u00a0You will be surprised at how less stressful the project can go!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ \u00a0Listen while you read, please! \u00a0~ There&#8217;s a wreckage, there&#8217;s a fire; there&#8217;s a weakness in my love There&#8217;s a hunger I can&#8217;t control Lord, I falter and I fall down then I hold on to chains You broke When You came and saved my soul&#8230;saved my soul Hallelujah! we are free to struggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[1287,425,4932,5658,5659,1071],"class_list":["post-18166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-tenth-avenue-north","tag-the-struggle","tag-tina-marin","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-victory","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166","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=18166"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18332,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18166\/revisions\/18332"}],"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=18166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}