{"id":19764,"date":"2014-05-20T00:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=19764"},"modified":"2014-05-19T22:47:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T02:47:27","slug":"19764","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/20\/19764\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithful"},"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\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" 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;\">You never promised me that this would be easy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I never knew that anything could be this hard<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I wanna trust that You know what You&#8217;re doin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But right now, I&#8217;m just fallin&#8217; apart<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It&#8217;s hard to see it when I&#8217;m livin&#8217; in the moment<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But Your love&#8217;s still written on my heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I get lost when I feel the wind blowin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I gotta cling to who You are<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> &#8216;Cause You are good<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Even when You&#8217;re not understood<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">No matter how many skies fall down<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m covered under the peace I&#8217;ve found<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re my Shelter when there&#8217;s nowhere else to go<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> No matter how many times I break<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You promise always to keep me safe<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re my Rescue when I&#8217;m spinning outta control<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are faithful, faithful<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are faithful, faithful<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m leaving doubt and sorrow in the distance<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m gonna trust, and cast my fears aside<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> My life&#8217;s a work that I know You&#8217;ll finish<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I know I&#8217;m gonna be alright<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s You I&#8217;ll chase<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Even when I can&#8217;t see Your face<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">No matter how many skies fall down<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m covered under the peace I&#8217;ve found<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re my Shelter when there&#8217;s nowhere else to go<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> No matter how many times I break<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You promise always to keep me safe<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re my Rescue when I&#8217;m spinning out of control<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are faithful, faithful<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are faithful, faithful<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are faithful, faithful<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And oh, oh, oh, oh<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> My God is always faithful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (My God, my God)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And oh, oh, oh, oh<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> My God is always faithful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (My God, my God)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">No matter how many skies fall down<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m covered under the peace I&#8217;ve found<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re my shelter when there&#8217;s nowhere else to go<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> No matter how many times I break<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You promise always to keep me safe<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re my rescue when I&#8217;m spinning outta control<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Lord, you are faithful, faithful<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are faithful, faithful<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are faithful, faithful<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Listen while you read!\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJWzEDj3qIM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>~ Written by\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jonathan Steingard and Sam Tinnesz<\/span>\u00a0 \/ Performed by Hawk Nelson ~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ \u2665 ~ \u271e ~ \u2665 ~ *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s promises to be <em><strong>faithful<\/strong><\/em>! \u00a0I can look back over my life and count numerous times of God\u2019s faithfulness in my life&#8230;I bet you can too. \u00a0Then why is it, when we are faced with a big trial or maybe lots of things coming at us at once, that we tend to forget His Faithfulness in our lives?<\/p>\n<p>I love how <a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/library\/maclaren\/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f\/gods_faithfulness.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this excerpt <\/a>\u00a0describes God\u2019s faithfulness all throughout Scripture. It is from \u2018<em>Expositions of Holy Scripture<\/em>\u2019 by Alexander Maclaren.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is faithful, worthy to be trusted, as His deeds show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Faith is our attitude corresponding to His faithfulness. Faith is the germ of all that He requires from us. How much we need it! How firm it might be! How blessed it would make us!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The thought of God as &#8216;faithful&#8217; is, like a precious stone, turned in many directions in Scripture, and wherever turned it flashes light. Sometimes it is laid as the foundation for the confidence that even our weakness will be upheld to the end, as when Paul tells the Corinthians that they will be confirmed to the end, because &#8216;God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of His Son&#8217; (1 Corinthians 1:9). Sometimes there is built on it the assurance of complete sanctification, as when he prays for the Thessalonians that their &#8216;whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord&#8217; and finds it in his heart to pray thus because &#8216;Faithful is He that calleth you, who will also do it&#8217; (1 Thessalonians 5:24). Sometimes it is presented as the steadfast stay grasping which faith can expect apparent impossibilities, as when Sara &#8216;judged Him faithful who had promised&#8217; (Hebrews 11:11).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes it is adduced as bringing strong consolation to souls\u2019 conscious of their own feeble and fluctuating faith, as when Paul tells Timothy that &#8216;If we are faithless, He abideth faithful; for He cannot deny Himself&#8217; (2 Timothy 2:13). Sometimes it is presented as an anodyne to souls disturbed by experience of men&#8217;s unreliableness, as when the apostle heartens the Thessalonians and himself to bear human untrustworthiness by the thought that though men are faithless, God &#8216;is faithful, who shall establish you and keep you from evil&#8217; (2 Thessalonians 3:2, 3). Sometimes it is put forward to breathe patience into tempted spirits, as when the Corinthians are comforted by the assurance that &#8216;God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able&#8217; (1 Corinthians 10:13). Sometimes it is laid as the firm foundation for our assurance of pardon, as when John tells us that &#8216;If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins&#8217; (1 John 1:9).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ \u2665 ~ \u271e ~ \u2665 ~ *<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heavenly Father, I pray for each woman reading this blog that they would remember Your faithfulness in the midst of the toughest of trials. \u00a0Thank You for the promise in Romans 8:28 that You \u2018work all things together for good for those who love You and are called according to Your purpose.\u2019 \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, I pray. 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