{"id":21376,"date":"2014-08-21T00:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=21376"},"modified":"2014-08-20T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T21:19:58","slug":"lay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/21\/lay\/","title":{"rendered":"Lay It Down"},"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&#8217;ve been lookin&#8217; till my eyes are tired of lookin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Listenin&#8217; till my ears are numb from listenin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Prayin&#8217; till my knees are sore from kneelin&#8217; on the bedroom floor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I know that you know that my heart is achin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m running out of tears and my will is breakin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I don&#8217;t think that I can carry the burden of it anymore<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">All of my hopes and my dreams and my best-laid plans<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Are slowly slippin&#8217; through my folded hands<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So I&#8217;m gonna lay it down<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m gonna learn to trust You now<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">What else can I do<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2018Cause everything I am depends on You<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And if the sun don&#8217;t come back up<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I know Your love will be enough<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m gonna let it be, I&#8217;m gonna let it go,<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m gonna lay it down<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ve been walkin&#8217; through this world like I&#8217;m barely livin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Buried in the doubt of this hole I&#8217;ve been diggin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But You&#8217;re pullin&#8217; me out<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m finally breathin&#8217; in the open air<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">This room may be dark but I&#8217;m finally seein&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">There&#8217;s a new ray of hope, and now I&#8217;m believin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">That the past is past, and the future&#8217;s beginning to look brighter now<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, cause all of my hopes and my dreams and my best-laid plans<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Are safe and secure when I place them in Your hands\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gROBmvsW0qE?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><center><\/center><center>Singer \/ Songwriter &#8211; Jaci Velasquez<\/center><center><\/center><center><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ \u2665 ~ \u271e ~ \u2665 ~ *<\/span>\u00a0<\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Each of us has burdens and cares and concerns&#8230;some days it seems they are more than we can bear. \u00a0To think you can walk through this life without them is to deny the Truth. \u00a0However, they are not ours to carry and bear on our own. Throughout the Scriptures, we are told that the Lord will bear them for us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day,<br \/>\neven the God Who is our salvation! Selah<br \/>\nPsalm 68:19<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened,<br \/>\nand I will give you rest.<br \/>\nAll of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me,<br \/>\nbecause I am gentle and humble in heart,<br \/>\nand you will find rest for yourselves.<br \/>\nFor My yoke is easy and My burden is light.<br \/>\nMatthew 11:28-30<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The burdens, the concerns, the cares of this life can turn into worries, doubts, fears if we do not bring them to our Father letting Him take care of them. We are to humbly recognize our great need for our Great God, and all that He has promised to do for us, because He cares for us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God<br \/>\nso that at the proper time He may exalt you,<br \/>\ncasting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.<br \/>\n1 Peter 5:6 and 7<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let\u2019s listen to Jesus\u2019 admonition and promises in Matthew chapter 6:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?<br \/>\nLook at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?<br \/>\nAnd who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life?<br \/>\nAnd why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.<br \/>\nYet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these.<br \/>\nBut if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?<br \/>\nTherefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?<br \/>\nFor the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.<br \/>\nBut seek first of all His kingdom and His righteousness, and then all these things will be given you besides.<br \/>\nSo do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jesus\u2019 words are full of action for us to take&#8230;but not the action of taking care of ourselves. Rather, our Lord and Master tells us to&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">stop being perpetually uneasy<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">look at (and consider) the birds of the air<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">consider the lilies of the field<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">do not worry and be anxious<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">seek (first of all) His kingdom<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">&lt;<em>again<\/em>&gt; do not worry or be anxious<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These are not always easy to do&#8230;but they are what we are to do in obedience. The choice, moment by moment, is ours (yours and mine)\u2014will we stop&#8230; look&#8230;consider&#8230;not worry or be anxious&#8230;but seek His kingdom <em><strong>OR<\/strong><\/em> will we worry, doubt, have anxiety and fear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ \u2665 ~ \u271e ~ \u2665 ~ *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am praying for you that TODAY you will choose to trust and say, \u201cI&#8217;m gonna let it be, I&#8217;m gonna let it go, I&#8217;m gonna lay it down&#8230;in Jesus\u2019 powerful name, amen.\u201d (Will you pray that for me, too? \u00a0I&#8217;d be so appreciative!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been lookin&#8217; till my eyes are tired of lookin&#8217; Listenin&#8217; till my ears are numb from listenin&#8217; Prayin&#8217; till my knees are sore from kneelin&#8217; on the bedroom floor I know that you know that my heart is achin&#8217; I&#8217;m running out of tears and my will is breakin&#8217; I don&#8217;t think that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[7108,7106,235,7109,7105,1287,425,7104,7111,7103,5625,654,7107,5629,4932,7110,3579],"class_list":["post-21376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-peter-56-7","tag-burdens","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-do-not-worry-or-be-anxious","tag-faith-in-god","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-jaci-velasquez","tag-lay-burdens-down","tag-lay-it-down","tag-let-it-go","tag-matthew-1128-30","tag-matthew-chapter-6","tag-psalm-6819","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-seek-first-his-kingdom","tag-trust-god","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-lay","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21376"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21384,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21376\/revisions\/21384"}],"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=21376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}