{"id":20146,"date":"2014-06-12T00:15:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T04:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=20146"},"modified":"2014-06-10T21:51:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T01:51:44","slug":"lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/12\/lighthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"My Lighthouse"},"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;\">In my wrestling and in my doubts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">In my failures You won&#8217;t walk out<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your great love will lead me through<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the peace in my troubled sea<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the peace in my troubled sea<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the silence, You won&#8217;t let go<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the questions Your truth will hold<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your great love will lead me through<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the peace in my troubled sea<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the peace in my troubled sea<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">My Lighthouse, my Lighthouse<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Shining in the darkness, I will follow You<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">My Lighthouse, my Lighthouse<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I will trust the promise<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You will carry me safe to shore\u00a0<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Safe to shore<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Safe to shore\u00a0<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Safe to shore<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I won&#8217;t fear what tomorrow brings<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">With each morning I&#8217;ll rise and sing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">My God&#8217;s love will lead me through<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the peace in my troubled sea<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the peace in my troubled sea<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Fire before us, You&#8217;re the brightest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You will lead us through the storms<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPtIv2lnkTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Songwriters\/Performers: The Rend Collective Experiment<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ \u2665 ~ \u271e ~ \u2665 ~ *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>God is our Lighthouse. He will lead us through the storms safely back to shore. He is the Light shining in the darkness. We must continue to keep our eyes focused on Him and His faithfulness in ALL things. The Light always shines on the darkness of life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.<br \/>\nPsalm 119:105 ESV<\/p>\n<p>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.js.emory.edu\/BLUMENTHAL\/psalm%2023%20Will.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Will Caldwell\u2019s insight<\/a> on God as our Lighthouse&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; \">The Lord is as my lighthouse;<br \/>\nAnd I shall not lose my course.<br \/>\nHe shows me the deep channel;<br \/>\nAnd guides me into the safe harbor<br \/>\nWhere repairs are made to my hull.<br \/>\nThe Lord does this;<br \/>\nIt befits His name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; \">Though I sail past the horizon,<br \/>\nI fear no storm \u2013 I remember Your goodness.<br \/>\nThe memory of You, Your guidance \u2013 I keep them close.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; \">When I return to Your shores, there is the clear beacon,<br \/>\nA sure light spread before me:<br \/>\nIllumination to grace my path.<br \/>\nOnly for Your brilliance will I look<br \/>\nAll the days of my life.<br \/>\nAnd as long as I may sail,<br \/>\nI shall return to this alcove *<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>God is the Illumination that will grace our path but it is His Brillance that we must be looking for. \u00a0If we focus in on the storm instead of the Light we will lose our focus. \u00a0His Truth will hold if we venture off course and His love will lead you through.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">Revelation 21:11 NIV<\/p>\n<p>God is the peace to hold onto in our troubled seas\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.<br \/>\nPhilippians 4:7 NET<\/p>\n<p>God is the light and in Him there is no darkness at all (as 1 John 1:5 ESV tells us).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ \u2665 ~ \u271e ~ \u2665 ~ *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gracious Heavenly Father, thank You that in our troubled seas You are the source of Light that will bring us safely back to shore. \u00a0I thank You that Your peace will lead us through. \u00a0May we keep our focus on You\u2026in Jesus\u2019 Name. AMEN!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Psalm 23: A Modern Reading \u00a0http:\/\/www.js.emory.edu\/BLUMENTHAL\/psalm%2023%20Will.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my wrestling and in my doubts In my failures You won&#8217;t walk out Your great love will lead me through You are the peace in my troubled sea You are the peace in my troubled sea In the silence, You won&#8217;t let go In the questions Your truth will hold Your great love will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"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":[5732,1287,425,4654,6519,1717,2092,4932,6516,6518,6517],"class_list":["post-20146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-john-15","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-kim-golds","tag-my-lighthouse","tag-philippians-47","tag-psalm-119105","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-revelation-2111","tag-the-rend-collective-experiment","tag-will-caldwell","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-5eW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20149,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions\/20149"}],"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=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}