{"id":20780,"date":"2014-07-18T00:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T04:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=20780"},"modified":"2014-07-17T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T21:21:37","slug":"i-am-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/18\/i-am-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am"},"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><br \/>\nT<span style=\"color: #800080;\">here&#8217;s no space that His love can&#8217;t reach<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> There&#8217;s no place where we can&#8217;t&#8217; find peace<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> There&#8217;s no end to amazing grace<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Take me in with Your arms spread wide<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Take me in like an orphan child<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Never let go<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Never leave my side<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I am<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Holding on to You<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Holding on to You<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In the middle of the storm<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am holding on<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Love like this<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh my God to find<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am overwhelmed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> With a joy divine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Love like this sets our hearts on fire<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">This is my resurrection song<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This is my hallelujah come<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This is why it&#8217;s to You I run<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There&#8217;s no space that His love can&#8217;t reach<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> There&#8217;s no place where we can&#8217;t find peace<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> There&#8217;s no end to amazing grace<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mw4ES27w3oU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Singer\/Songwriter: David Crowder (with Ed Cash)<\/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>Have you ever felt you would never be at peace? \u00a0Have you ever felt like an orphan, all alone in this world? \u00a0Yep, me too. \u00a0More times than I would like to count.<\/p>\n<p>I can be worse than a dog with a bone. Replaying events and conversations in my head&#8230; worrying and fretting. \u00a0I am unable to still my mind. \u00a0 \u00a0 Peace is elusive. These verses reassure me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Psalm 29:11(HCSB)<br \/>\n<em>The Lord gives His people strength; the Lord blesses His people with peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Psalm 35:27 (NLT)<br \/>\n<em>Great is the Lord, who delights in blessing his servant with peace!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">John 14:27 (NLT)<br \/>\n<em>I am leaving you with a gift\u2014peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">John 16:33 (NIV)<br \/>\n<em>I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And <strong><em>that<\/em> <\/strong>is all the reassurance I need. \u00a0There is no end to God\u2019s amazing grace.<\/p>\n<p>I posted this song on my FaceBook timeline last week. \u00a0It resonates with me. \u00a0As this song plays in my head I am reminded that there is no place, there is no space His love cannot reach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Psalm 86:13(AMP) reaffirms this:<br \/>\nFor great is Your mercy and loving-kindness toward me; and You have delivered me<br \/>\nfrom the depths of Sheol [from the exceeding depths of affliction].<\/p>\n<p>If He can deliver me from my afflictions\u2014from the very depths of Hell\u2014His love can reach whatever mucky pit I am in. \u00a0The only place you and I can find love like this is wrapped in God\u2019s arms. \u00a0His arms are always open wide just waiting for us to run to Him. \u00a0I am <strong>overwhelmed<\/strong> with joy.<\/p>\n<p>So I run to Him \u2014 daily. \u00a0When things <em><strong>are<\/strong> <\/em>good AND when things <strong><em>aren\u2019t<\/em> <\/strong>so good. \u00a0I hold on to Him tightly, especially during the storms. \u00a0He never lets go. \u00a0He never leaves my side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>This is my resurrection song<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>This is my hallelujah come<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>This is why it&#8217;s to You I run<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am holding on to Him. <em><strong>What are you holding onto?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no space that His love can&#8217;t reach There&#8217;s no place where we can&#8217;t&#8217; find peace There&#8217;s no end to amazing grace Take me in with Your arms spread wide Take me in like an orphan child Never let go Never leave my side I am Holding on to You I am Holding on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"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":[5889,3294,1287,425,2808,560,1477,6822,4699,6820,6821,4932,6823],"class_list":["post-20780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-david-crowder","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-i-am","tag-john-1427","tag-john-1633","tag-no-end-to-amazing-grace","tag-psalm-2911","tag-psalm-3527","tag-psalm-8613","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-who-are-you-holding-onto","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-5pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20785,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780\/revisions\/20785"}],"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=20780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}