{"id":20855,"date":"2014-07-22T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=20855"},"modified":"2014-07-21T22:46:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T02:46:52","slug":"love-stepped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/22\/love-stepped\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Stepped In"},"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;\">He was preachin&#8217; down off 3rd and Main as I was passin&#8217; by<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He was walking talking kinda crazy warnin&#8217; us all &#8217;bout the end of time<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So out from the crowd, I just asked him how could God love a mess like me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He said, &#8220;Son, I&#8217;m a preacher now but that ain&#8217;t who I used to be&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He said<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>You&#8217;ll never know, you&#8217;ll never know<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Just how far Love has brought me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> You&#8217;ll never know who I used to be<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Cause I&#8217;ve been around and I&#8217;ve been down<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> To the bottom of hell and back again<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> I was almost out, I was at my end<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> But then Love stepped in<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">She works downtown at the halfway house almost every day<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> All the love she has she just gives away<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So I asked her why she spends so much time on the broken and the poor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And she just smiled at me and said &#8220;I&#8217;m not who I was before&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> She said<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You&#8217;ll never know, you&#8217;ll never know<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Just how far love has brought me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;ll never know who I used to be<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Cause I&#8217;ve been around and I&#8217;ve been down<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To the bottom of hell and back again<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I was almost out, I was at my end<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But then Love stepped in<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Love stepped in<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I look back sometimes over where I&#8217;ve been and just how far I&#8217;ve come<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Since the day that preacher told me about His amazing love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I was lost and alone, then the lights came on and hope set my heart free<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In the darkest hour grace got a hold of me, yeah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You&#8217;ll never know, you&#8217;ll never know<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Just how far love has brought me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;ll never know who I used to be, oh oh<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Cause I&#8217;ve been around and I&#8217;ve been down<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To the bottom of hell and back again<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I was almost out, I was at my end<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But then Love stepped in<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Love stepped in<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sxTcEc75W7I?list=UUsAkKmt925_3K6NEKvDhpIw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Written and Performed by &#8216;Finding Favour&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; along with Carl Cartee, Aaron Tomberlin, Nathan Tomberlin<\/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>I have a question on my heart to ask: Are you one of the \u2018church\u2019 people (religious) or do you love unconditionally just like Jesus did?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious,<br \/>\nnever boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude.<br \/>\nLove does not demand its own way.<br \/>\nIt is not irritable or touchy.<br \/>\nIt does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.<br \/>\nIt is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out.<br \/>\nIf you love someone you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him,<br \/>\nand always stand your ground in defending him.<br \/>\nAll the special gifts and powers from God will someday come to an end,<br \/>\nbut love goes on forever&#8230;<br \/>\n1 Corinthians 13:4-8 TLB<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no such thing as conditional love.\u00a0Love is either unconditional or it&#8217;s no love. You might like someone conditionally based on their personality or behavior or circumstances. But love accepts no boundaries. So never say &#8216;I love you just because&#8217;, for love has no cause, love comes from God.<br \/>\nLet us be those who love unconditionally and not those who love with conditions\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Excerpt from Campus Crusade for Christ.org.<br \/>\nHere is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cru.org\/training-and-growth\/classics\/transferable-concepts\/love-by-faith\/02-5-truths-about-love-unconditional.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> link<\/a>\u00a0 to the entire article.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/blockquote>\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>Heavenly Father, help us to love others as You have loved us with a life-changing love that sees no conditions. \u00a0Help us to love others with only the authentic pure love that You have so freely given to us. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name. \u00a0Amen!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was preachin&#8217; down off 3rd and Main as I was passin&#8217; by He was walking talking kinda crazy warnin&#8217; us all &#8217;bout the end of time So out from the crowd, I just asked him how could God love a mess like me He said, &#8220;Son, I&#8217;m a preacher now but that ain&#8217;t who [&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":[2461,6849,6848,1287,425,4654,6847,4932,2392],"class_list":["post-20855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-corinthians-134-8","tag-campus-crusade-for-christ","tag-finding-favour","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-kim-golds","tag-love-stepped-in","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-unconditional-love","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-5qn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855","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=20855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20860,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20855\/revisions\/20860"}],"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=20855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}