{"id":19127,"date":"2014-04-21T00:15:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T04:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=19127"},"modified":"2014-04-20T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:56:00","slug":"forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/21\/forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><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><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Yeah, isn&#8217;t it amazing how a man can find himself alone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Call into the darkness for an answer that&#8217;s he&#8217;s never known<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Yeah, isn&#8217;t it amazing how God can take a broken man<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Yeah, let him find a fortune, let him ruin it with his own two hands<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><br \/>\nAnd he climbs on up the hill on the rock on which he stands<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He looks back at the crowd<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He looks down at his hands and he says<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am a difference maker<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, I am the difference maker<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, I am the only one who speaks to him<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And I am the friendliest of friends of God<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I am on the fence about nearly everything I&#8217;ve seen<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And I have felt the fire be put out by too much gasoline<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And we&#8217;re all strangers passing through a place and time afternoon<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Life is but a vision in a window that we&#8217;re peeking throughA helpless conversation with a man who says he cares a lot<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s a passive confrontation about who might throw a punch or not<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> We are all transgressors, we&#8217;re all sinners, we&#8217;re all astronauts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So if you&#8217;re beating death then raise your hand but shut up if you&#8217;re not<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;Cause I am the difference maker<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, I am the only one that speaks to him<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And I am the friendliest of friends of God<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0~ \u00a0Sing this song with me as our prayer and worship today. \u00a0~<\/h4>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L2LtB9KLf98?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~ \u00a0Songwriters: Bo and Bear Rineheart \/ Performed by NEEDTOBREATHE \u00a0~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Easter is an event we all look forward to each year with much anticipation, wonder, and awe. \u00a0The women look forward to being able to buy and wear new clothes and shoes. \u00a0Children look forward to the basket that bunny person leaves every year and being able to find all of those lost eggs. \u00a0Probably the best thing about Easter for me, though, is to tell the kids at church about how our Lord and Savior went to the Cross and died for all of our sins. \u00a0While we use a DVD curriculum we also have the ability to tell our kids how God has impacted our lives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Difference Maker<\/em> is about how some of us think that God only talks to us and that these are the only ones that make a difference. \u00a0Just as Paul says we are all members of one body and each of us have certain tasks to perform, we should not make others feel inferior. \u00a0Rather we are to build them up and tell God of their good deeds. \u00a0Even when those who serve alongside us might get hurt. \u00a0We are to love unconditionally&#8230;first in the church and then we will have a better ability to love outside the church.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. \u00a0For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. \u00a0For the body is not one member, but many. \u00a0If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? \u00a0And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? \u00a0If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? \u00a0If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? \u00a0But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. \u00a0And if they were all one member, where were the body? \u00a0But now are they many members, yet but one body. \u00a0And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. \u00a0Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: \u00a0And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. \u00a0For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: \u00a0That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. \u00a0And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.<br \/>\n1 Corinthians 12:12-26 KJV<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Could you imagine if we followed Paul&#8217;s advice, how much better we would be? \u00a0I want to strive to be more attuned to the needs of my brothers and sisters (members) of the church and love on them the way God intended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Father, I know that You speak to others and work through them. \u00a0I have seen it in my walk through life. \u00a0How You have put people in my life to help me grow and mature. \u00a0Help me, inspire me by Your Holy Spirit to seek You in all that I do and say. \u00a0Help me to remember to include others in what could be a great blessing in their life. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, 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