{"id":21614,"date":"2014-09-03T00:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=21614"},"modified":"2014-09-03T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:00:09","slug":"bless-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/03\/bless-name\/","title":{"rendered":"I Bless Your Name"},"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 prisoners chains, with bleeding stripes<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Paul and Silas prayed that night<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And in their pain, began to sing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Their chains were loosed and they were free<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I bless Your name, I bless Your name<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I give You honor, give You praise<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the Life, the Truth, the Way<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I bless Your name, I bless Your name<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Some midnight hour, if you should find<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You&#8217;re in a prison, in your mind<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Sing out in praise\u2014defy the chains<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And they will fall in Jesus\u2019 name<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the Life, the Truth, the Way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the Life, the Truth, the Way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the Life, the Truth, the Way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I bless Your name, I bless Your name<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8UiNxJk_ec?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Songwriter &#8211; Elizabeth Goodine \/ Performed by Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271e \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This song tells of the Apostle Paul and his brother in Christ, Silas, imprisoned in the city of Philippi. \u00a0They had been wrongly accused, held without a proper hearing, beaten and flogged, and then tossed into the innermost prison cell where they were held in stocks and chains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone\u2019s chains were unfastened. Acts 16:25 and 26<\/p>\n<p>Is that not one of the most incredible accounts of deliverance in the Bible?!!? \u00a0But wait&#8230;that\u2019s not <strong><em>really<\/em><\/strong> quite true&#8230;the Scriptures are <strong>filled<\/strong> with record after record after record telling of God\u2019s provision in miraculous, awesome, \u2018but for the grace of God\u2019 ways! Such as,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moses and the children of Israel being delivered out of the hand of their Egyptian oppressors<\/li>\n<li>Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego stepping out with not even the scent of smoke on their garments after being in the fiery furnace<\/li>\n<li>Daniel climbing out of the lion\u2019s den with not a scratch on him<\/li>\n<li>Joshua and the Israelites circling Jericho for six days and then on the seventh day, repeating their journey 7 times in a row&#8230;and then shouting&#8230;and the walls of Jericho came tumbling down<\/li>\n<li>Jonah surviving three days of being in the great fish\u2019s belly<\/li>\n<li>Mary finding herself, a yet-to-be-married virgin, pregnant<\/li>\n<li>the Resurrection from the dead, after three days, of our Lord Jesus Christ<\/li>\n<li>And, of course, there are many, many, many more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which are some of the wondrous works of God that cause <em>your heart<\/em> to sing out in praise as you remember God\u2019s great hand of blessing? \u00a0(Please share them with us in the comment section below!) \u00a0May I encourage you to read through these records and remind yourself how<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> amazing, awesome,<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> wonderful<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>our God is&#8212;and <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>bless His Name<\/em><\/strong><\/span>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He is <em><strong>ELOHIM<\/strong> <\/em>\u2014the God of power and might.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He is <em><strong>JEHOVAH-JIREH<\/strong><\/em> \u2014 the Lord Who will provide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He is <em><strong>EL-ROI<\/strong> <\/em>\u2014 the Strong One Who sees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He is <em><strong>EL-SHADDAI<\/strong> <\/em>\u2014 God Almighty.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271e \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">I will extol You, my God, O King,<br \/>\nAnd<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">I will bless Your Name<\/span><\/em> forever and ever.<br \/>\nEvery day <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I will bless You, <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">And I will praise Your name<\/span><\/em> forever and ever.<br \/>\nGreat is the Lord, and highly to be praised,<br \/>\nAnd His greatness is unsearchable.<br \/>\nMy mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,<br \/>\nAnd all flesh will<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> bless His holy name<\/span><\/em> forever and ever.<br \/>\nPsalms 145:1-3, 21<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In prisoners chains, with bleeding stripes Paul and Silas prayed that night And in their pain, began to sing Their chains were loosed and they were free I bless Your name, I bless Your name I give You honor, give You praise You are the Life, the Truth, the Way I bless Your name, 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":[7221,235,7219,1287,425,7223,7220,4932,5488],"class_list":["post-21614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-chains-broken","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-elizabeth-goodine","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-i-bless-your-name","tag-paul-and-silas","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-singing-praises","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-5CC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614","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=21614"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21627,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614\/revisions\/21627"}],"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=21614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}