{"id":18847,"date":"2014-04-02T00:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=18847"},"modified":"2014-04-02T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:04:40","slug":"took-place-third-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/02\/took-place-third-day\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Took My Place"},"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<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lost like a little child, helpless as a baby<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Searchin&#8217; desperately to find\u00a0Someone who could save me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Then along came from out of nowhere<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Precious as the light of day<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> You gave me something no one could take\u00a0away<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> When You took my place<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Chained like a prisoner from the day I was born<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Blamed like a criminal for the things that I&#8217;d done<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Then along came from out of nowhere<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Precious as the light of day<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> You gave me something no one could take\u00a0away<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> When You took my place<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0~ \u00a0<strong><em>Sing this song with me as our prayer and worship today<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0~<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FOh2-XsDYXE?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>* \u00a0~ \u00a0* \u00a0~<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u2665\u00a0~ \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u271e<\/span> \u00a0~\u00a0\u2665\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>~ \u00a0* \u00a0~ \u00a0*\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been lost? \u00a0If so, then you can appreciate the amazing, indescribable feeling of relief of being found or finding your own way out. \u00a0Isn&#8217;t it true though, that you can&#8217;t truly appreciate the victory until you&#8217;ve tasted defeat? \u00a0 And until you&#8217;ve been in the dark, you cannot appreciate the light of a flashlight? \u00a0My point is, until life really happens to you, and until you&#8217;ve really struggled and been in the valley, you cannot really appreciate climbing out of it and being on the mountain top.<\/p>\n<p>Think back to your darkest hour&#8230;\u00a0Did you feel His arms around you? \u00a0Did you know that He is strongest in your weakness? \u00a0And at some point, did you think that there is no way you can make it one more day not one more minute? \u00a0Then out of the Heavens, He shows up. \u00a0He shines His light into our darkness. \u00a0He meets us exactly where we are and saves us. \u00a0We don&#8217;t have to get good enough. We can never be good enough. \u00a0You know, we are all sinners and we all come short of His glory. \u00a0But because of a loving God Who sent His Son to literally take our place, we have a life that is abundant, a life full of blessings. \u00a0All we have to do is ask. \u00a0All we have to do is accept His redeeming love and His unending forgiveness. \u00a0And we are not to live in the shame of our past. \u00a0We have to live that forgiveness. \u00a0We have to hold on to His grace. \u00a0We have to live out His love for us and love others the way He calls us to. \u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>All because He took our place.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where are you today? \u00a0Are you in the woods somewhere lost and in need of a road map? \u00a0Or are you in a valley and need a rope to get up to the mountain? \u00a0 He is a word away. He says &#8220;Come to Me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest&#8221; (Matthew 11:28). \u00a0God delivers with a &#8220;mighty hand and an outstretched arm&#8221; (Deuteronomy 5:15). \u00a0And then when you are on the other side of the road from your circumstances and God has rescued you and given you the victory, then tell the world that &#8220;He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God (Psalm 40:3).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re still in the middle of a hard place, then place your hope in Him. He will not leave you in one place too long.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">He loves you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">He took your place so that you could live forever with Him in eternity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And take heart&#8230;He overcame the world!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost like a little child, helpless as a baby Searchin&#8217; desperately to find\u00a0Someone who could save me Then along came from out of nowhere Precious as the light of day You gave me something no one could take\u00a0away When You took my place Chained like a prisoner from the day I was born Blamed like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"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":[5970,425,518,589,1672,5965,4932,5961,3787,5971],"class_list":["post-18847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-deuteronomy-515","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-hope","tag-kim-spring","tag-matthew-1128","tag-psalm-403","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-songs-of-praise","tag-third-day","tag-when-you-took-my-place","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-4TZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18847"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18866,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847\/revisions\/18866"}],"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=18847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}