{"id":20491,"date":"2014-07-02T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=20491"},"modified":"2014-07-01T22:58:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T02:58:20","slug":"broken-hallelujah-afters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/02\/broken-hallelujah-afters\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Hallelujah"},"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;\">I can barely stand right now.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Everything is crashing down,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And I wonder where You are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I try to find the words to pray.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I don&#8217;t always know what to say,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But You&#8217;re the one that can hear my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Even though I don&#8217;t know what your plan is,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I know You&#8217;re making beauty from these ashes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ve seen joy and I&#8217;ve seen pain<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">On my knees, I call Your name<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Here&#8217;s my broken hallelujah<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">With nothing left to hold onto<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I raise these empty hands to You<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Here&#8217;s my broken hallelujah<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You know the things that have brought me here.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You know the story of every tear.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u2018Cause You&#8217;ve been here from the very start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Even though I don&#8217;t know what your plan is,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I know You&#8217;re making beauty from these ashes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When all is taken away, don&#8217;t let my heart be changed.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let me always sing Hallelujah<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When I feel afraid, don&#8217;t let my hope be erased<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let me always sing Hallelujah.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let me always sing Hallelujah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I will always sing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I will always sing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Here&#8217;s my broken hallelujah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fo3DudOzV4k?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Writer(s): Josh Havens\/Matt Fuqua\/Jordan Mohilowski\/Dan Ostebo<br \/>\nPerformed by The Afters<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The band, &#8220;The Afters,&#8221; wrote this song about Job and all the things he went through. Each band member put himself in Job&#8217;s place and challenged himself to this: if each one of us lost it all, and we had the trials that Job went through, (death, loss, illness etc.,) would we still praise God for Who He is and for what He has given us? Would we believe that He is good always, even when we don&#8217;t like what He gives? And the answer came in a song&#8230;<em>this<\/em> song. \u00a0(If you would like to hear more from The Afters about the story behind this song, <a href=\"http:\/\/freeccm.com\/2013\/09\/04\/story-behind-the-song-with-the-afters-broken-hallelujah\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Can you relate? I know for me there are days that just putting one foot in front of the other is all I can do. Everything is so uncertain and the things I have prayed for seem light years away, yet I still praise Him and believe that He is good always and He loves me so much. I see all the little miracles throughout my days and although no one else may understand, I do and I am amazed that He is in the small details of my life. Sometimes the &#8216;Hallelujah!&#8217; is broken, because I am. But as the song says, my heart is not changed. I am still so in love with my God.<\/p>\n<p>There are times that I don&#8217;t know what to pray. Those are the times that I just hold out my empty arms and receive all He has to give \u00a0me. When we don&#8217;t know what we need, He does. And sometimes He allows pain into our lives and maybe we don&#8217;t know why but if we were to see the big picture, we would never change a thing. Because He is our Creator and He loves us more than anyone ever could, we trust Him in these times and rest in Him.<\/p>\n<p>Where are<em><strong> you<\/strong><\/em> today? Are you wondering where He is right now? If you are going through a storm, He is right there with you. If you are on a mountain top, He walked with you all the way there. He never leaves you, regardless of how you feel. So praise Him with everything you have! Hold out those empty hands and let Him fill you with all He has for you. Because <em>He is <strong>always<\/strong> worthy<\/em> to be praised, even if your praise feels a little broken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head.<br \/>\nThen he fell to the ground in worship and said:<br \/>\n&#8220;Naked I came from my mothers womb and naked I will depart.<br \/>\nThe Lord gave and The Lord has taken away;<br \/>\nmay the name of The Lord be praised.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.<br \/>\nJob 1:20-22 NIV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Let us pray<\/strong><\/span>: Dearest Heavenly Father, You are worthy to be praised and worshipped. Thank You for the grace that we don&#8217;t deserve. You will take our &#8216;hallelujahs&#8217; however they come. Even when we feel empty, and are in need, You know the answers before we ask. Lord, we ask that You give us the will and the courage to praise You, even when we aren&#8217;t where we want to be and we \u00a0have lost all we thought was important. When we have You, we have all we need. We love You. In Jesus&#8217; name we pray, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can barely stand right now. Everything is crashing down, And I wonder where You are. I try to find the words to pray. I don&#8217;t always know what to say, But You&#8217;re the one that can hear my heart. Even though I don&#8217;t know what your plan is, I know You&#8217;re making beauty from [&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":[6300,1287,425,6684,6683,2748,6687,589,6682,4932,6301],"class_list":["post-20491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-broken-hallelujah","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-he-is-always-good","tag-he-is-always-with-us","tag-job","tag-job-120-22","tag-kim-spring","tag-praise-in-the-storms","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-the-afters","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-5kv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491","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=20491"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20506,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491\/revisions\/20506"}],"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=20491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}