{"id":21261,"date":"2014-08-15T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T04:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=21261"},"modified":"2014-08-14T23:08:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T03:08:05","slug":"stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/15\/stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Stuff"},"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 lost my keys in the great unknown<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And call me, please, &#8217;cause I can&#8217;t find my phone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">This is the stuff that drives me crazy<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This is the stuff that&#8217;s getting to me lately<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In the middle of my little mess<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I forget how big I&#8217;m blessed<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This is the stuff that gets under my skin<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But I&#8217;ve gotta trust You know exactly what You&#8217;re doing<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Might not be what I would choose<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But this the stuff You use<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">45 in a 35 sirens and fines<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> While I&#8217;m running behind<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Whoa ho ho<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So break me of impatience<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Conquer my frustrations<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;ve got a new appreciation<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s not the end of the world<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Whoa ho ho ho&#8230;Oooooh<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Whoa whoa ho ho<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This is the stuff You use\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xe4SckesWLE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Performed by:\u00a0Francesca Battistelli<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Songwriters: Francesca Battistelli, Ian Eskelin, Tony Wood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anyone else going through some STUFF lately? \u00a0I am sure I am not alone! \u00a0When things are hitting us right and left, catching us off guard, this is when we become tired and weary. \u00a0Much like being in a boxing ring. \u00a0Our temptation when we feel this way is to throw in the towel and quit&#8230;however that is the exact moment when God reminds me that I am more than a conqueror through Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just as it is written: For Your sake we are being put to death all day long.<br \/>\nWe were considered as sheep to be slaughtered<br \/>\nBut in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.<br \/>\nRomans 8: 36-37<\/p>\n<p>It is easy in trying times\u2014when many things are coming at us at once\u2014to forget how BIG we are blessed. I then purpose to sit myself down and think on all of the blessings in my life and the miracles that God has done. I start to meditate on these things instead of all the stuff that can drive us crazy, and keep us preoccupied and distracted from the One Who loves us the most.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of my favorite Scriptures and proclamations on blessings\u2026I speak this over my life each and every day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all His commands<br \/>\nthat I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you<br \/>\nhigh above all the nations of the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God:<br \/>\nWherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed.<br \/>\nDeuteronomy 28:1 and 2, 6 NLT<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">What an awesome promise to hold onto\u2026.<\/h3>\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 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heavenly Father, thank You for the reminder that the things we go through is just stuff and that we can conqueror anything we go through because of You. \u00a0Let us not forget how big we are blessed!!! \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 Name, AMEN!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost my keys in the great unknown And call me, please, &#8217;cause I can&#8217;t find my phone This is the stuff that drives me crazy This is the stuff that&#8217;s getting to me lately In the middle of my little mess I forget how big I&#8217;m blessed This is the stuff that gets under [&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":[7054,4770,1287,425,7057,4654,4932,7055,7056],"class_list":["post-21261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-deuteronomy-281-2-and-6","tag-francesca-battistelli","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-how-big-we-are-blessed","tag-kim-golds","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-romans-836-and-37","tag-this-is-the-stuff","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-stuff","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21261","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=21261"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21267,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21261\/revisions\/21267"}],"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=21261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}