{"id":20762,"date":"2014-07-17T00:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T04:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=20762"},"modified":"2014-07-16T23:53:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T03:53:09","slug":"20762","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/17\/20762\/","title":{"rendered":"Dive"},"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;\">The long awaited rains<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Have fallen hard upon the thirsty ground<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And carved their way to where<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">The wild and rushing river can be found<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And like the rain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I have been carried here to where the river flows, yeah<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">My heart is racing and my knees are weak<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">As I walk to the edge<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I know there is no turning back<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Once my feet have left the ledge<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And in the rush I hear a voice<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">That&#8217;s telling me it&#8217;s time to take the leap of faith<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">So here I go<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m diving in, I&#8217;m going deep, in over my head I want to be<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Caught in the rush, tossed in the flow, in over my head I want to go<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The river&#8217;s deep, the river&#8217;s wide, the river&#8217;s water is alive<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So sink or swim, I&#8217;m diving in (I&#8217;m diving in&#8230;)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There is a supernatural power<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">In this mighty river&#8217;s flow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">It can bring the dead to life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And it can fill an empty soul<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And give a heart the only thing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Worth living and worth dying for, yeah<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But we will never know the awesome power<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Of the grace of God<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Until we let ourselves get swept away<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Into this holy flood<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">So if you&#8217;ll take my hand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">We&#8217;ll close our eyes and count to three<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And take the leap of faith<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Come on let&#8217;s go<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m diving in, I&#8217;m going deep, in over my head I want to be<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Caught in the rush, tossed in the flow, in over my head I want to go<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The river&#8217;s deep, the river&#8217;s wide, the river&#8217;s water is alive<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So sink or swim, I&#8217;m diving in, yeah<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m diving in, I&#8217;m diving in, yeah<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m diving in, yeah, here I go<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Come on let&#8217;s go<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hXqXIicm8uU?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Singer\/Songwriter: Steven Curtis Chapman<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 *\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to take a <strong><em>leap of faith<\/em><\/strong>? \u00a0It means to dive in completely&#8230;to trust God with everything and hold nothing back. \u00a0No borders. \u00a0No fear. \u00a0Just complete and total faith in Him. \u00a0Wherever He calls you. \u00a0Knowing His plans for you are good as Jeremiah 29:11 states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord,<br \/>\nplans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/spirituallife\/Devotions\/markland_leap.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> This excerpt<\/a> from the devotional section of CBN.com sums it up so beautifully.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Bible says, in James 2:26, that faith without works is dead. I have learned that faith with works (action) is alive. Faith without works (action) can become an unfulfilled fantasy. For if I have faith that God is leading me, but I do not follow or act on it, then faith turns to doubt and my inaction leads to death; the death of my faith and the death of my dream. This is a horrible state in which to exist.<\/p>\n<p>Unfulfilled faith creeps into one\u2019s life like oil into water. Just as oil pollutes, leaving a nasty film which ruins the purity of the water &#8211; so doubt, solidified by inaction, covers the purity of faith; rendering it polluted, unfit, and unusable. Faith activated by works (action) skims the doubt that covers the water of life, cleans it, and recovers the purity of the gift that obedience brings to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>We must be doers of the word and not just hearers. It is so human to hear the word, rejoice in what we hear, and then\u2026. ponder. Pondering plants seeds of doubt, which grows into the mighty tree of procrastination, that bears the poisonous leaves of inaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">www.cbn.com\/spirituallife\/Devotions\/markland_leap<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #37989e;\">*<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #37989e;\">\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh Father, may we choose to take that leap of faith and dive in fully and completely, trusting in You. \u00a0Knowing that there is supernatural power in the flow. \u00a0In over my head I want to go\u2026in Jesus\u2019 name\u2026amen!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long awaited rains Have fallen hard upon the thirsty ground And carved their way to where The wild and rushing river can be found And like the rain I have been carried here to where the river flows, yeah My heart is racing and my knees are weak As I walk to the edge [&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":[6812,1287,6813,425,6814,551,4654,6811,4932,6041],"class_list":["post-20762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-dive","tag-gch","tag-gene-markland","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-is-your-faith-worth-the-leap","tag-jeremiah-2911","tag-kim-golds","tag-leap-of-faith","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-steven-curtis-chapman","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-20762","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762","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=20762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20764,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762\/revisions\/20764"}],"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=20762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}