{"id":21540,"date":"2014-08-30T00:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T04:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=21540"},"modified":"2014-08-29T21:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T01:07:21","slug":"living-prayer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/30\/living-prayer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Living Prayer"},"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;\">In this world I walk alone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> With no place to call my home<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But there&#8217;s one who holds my hand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Through rugged roads, through barren lands<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The way is dark, the road is steep<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But He&#8217;s become my eyes to see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The strength to climb, my griefs to bear<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The Savior lives inside me there<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In Your love I find release<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> A haven from my unbelief<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Take my life and let me be<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> A living prayer, my God, to Thee<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In these trials of life I find<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Another voice inside my mind<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He comforts me and bids me live<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Inside the love the Father gives<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Take my life and let me be a living prayer, my God, to Thee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZuDbrIp-g8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Performed by Alison Krauss and Union Station; written by Ron Block<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271e \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This beautiful bluegrass ballad is an affirmation, a declaration, a commitment. It is the heart-cry of the songwriter to his God. I love that he wrote, \u2018take my life and let me be a living prayer&#8230;\u2019 He recognized that, even though he had so much in his heart he wanted to commit to God Almighty, he still needed God\u2019s involvement. He knew he needed God.<\/p>\n<p>The writers of the Psalms often communicated very similar thoughts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.<br \/>\nGive attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You do I pray.<br \/>\nO Lord, in the morning You hear my voice;<br \/>\nin the morning I prepare a sacrifice for You and watch.<br \/>\nBut let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever sing for joy,<br \/>\nAnd spread your protection over them, that those who love Your name may exult in You.<br \/>\nFor You bless the righteous, O Lord; You cover him with favor as with a shield.<br \/>\nPsalms 25:1-3, 11 and 12 ESV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Listen to my words, O Lord, give heed to my sighing and groaning.<br \/>\nHear the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You do I pray.<br \/>\nIn the morning You hear my voice, O Lord; in the morning I prepare [a prayer, a sacrifice] for You and watch and wait [for You to speak to my heart].<br \/>\nPsalms 5:1-3 AMP<\/p>\n<p>And as such it is with us, too. We cry out to our heavenly Father with our own words of commitment and declaration. Voicing the affirmation of our faith in Him&#8230;our trust and belief that He is Faithful&#8230;our acknowledgment of our great need for our El Shaddai.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Take my life and let me be a living prayer, my God, to Thee!<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this world I walk alone With no place to call my home But there&#8217;s one who holds my hand Through rugged roads, through barren lands The way is dark, the road is steep But He&#8217;s become my eyes to see The strength to climb, my griefs to bear The Savior lives inside me there [&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":[5136,5137,235,4915,1287,425,5133,5134,5135,4932,5528,7187],"class_list":["post-21540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-a-living-prayer","tag-alison-krauss","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-commitment-to-god","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-psalms-251-3","tag-psalms-2511-12","tag-psalms-51-3","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-ron-block","tag-union-station","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-5Bq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21540","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=21540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21545,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21540\/revisions\/21545"}],"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=21540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}