{"id":20266,"date":"2014-06-19T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=20266"},"modified":"2014-06-18T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T20:02:30","slug":"love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/19\/love\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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He maketh the barren woman to keep house,
\nand to be a joyful mother of children.
\nPraise ye the LORD.
\nPsalm 113:9<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t know what it is like to not have the ability to have children. \u00a0I\u2019m a mother, I have been since I was a young woman. However, through the years I\u2019ve learned an important lesson\u2014you do not need to bear children to be a mom, to be a mother. I have come across many women who are mothers to their own children and to others. I\u2019ve come across women who do not have children but who have taken on that role, nurturing and guiding others in life.<\/p>\n

This verse doesn\u2019t simply tell me that He will create opportunities for women to fill a void they may have from not having children of her own. What this verse tells me is that God will always meet our needs, He will always make certain that our voids are filled, but it\u2019s not the house or the kids, or whatever it is that\u2019s missing from your life. What He fills that void with is His love. It\u2019s His love that brings the joy that we have as we go about our day<\/p>\n

So yes, Praise ye the Lord<\/strong><\/em>! Praise Him for meeting our needs, for filling our voids, and for the joy to live out our destiny even when the circumstances don\u2019t match our plan.<\/p>\n

\u00a0*<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Pray<\/span><\/strong>: Dear Heavenly Father, sometimes we look at our situations and see that they don\u2019t meet our plans, we have voids; we have empty places, and there is only One Who can fill those voids\u2014and that is You and Your love. Thank You for Your joy that allows us to live each day. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 Name, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD. Psalm 113:9 I don\u2019t know what it is like to not have the ability to have children. \u00a0I\u2019m a mother, I have been since I was a young woman. However, through the years I\u2019ve learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":13840,"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":[3020],"tags":[3367,1287,425,6579,6577,6576,6542,6580,3174,1075,6578],"class_list":["post-20266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-gods-love-can-only-fill-the-void","tag-joy-comes-with-gods-provision","tag-mothering","tag-psalm-113","tag-psalm-1139","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-tonya-ellison","tag-void-in-our-lives","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-love","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20266","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20269,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20266\/revisions\/20269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}