{"id":22411,"date":"2014-10-21T00:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T04:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22411"},"modified":"2014-10-20T23:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T03:56:46","slug":"lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/21\/lift\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift Me Up"},"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;\">Waiting for the sunrise<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Waiting for the day<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Waiting for a sign<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That I&#8217;m where You want me to be<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You know my heart is heavy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And the hurt is deep<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But when I feel like giving up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re reminding me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That we all fall down sometimes<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But when I hit the ground<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You lift me up when I am weak<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your arms wrap around me<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your love catches me so I&#8217;m letting go<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You lift me up when I can&#8217;t see<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your heart is all that I need<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your love carries me so I&#8217;m letting go<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You lift me up with Your love<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You lift me up with Your love<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You lift me up with Your love<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You lift me up<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I know I&#8217;m not perfect<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I know I make mistakes<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I know that I have let You down<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But You love me the same<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And when I&#8217;m surrounded<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When I lose my way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When I&#8217;m crying out and falling down<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are here to<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I can see the dawn is breaking<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am feeling overtaken with Your love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> With Your love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I don&#8217;t know what I can offer<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In this moment I surrender to Your love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To Your love<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You lift me up with Your love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You lift me up with Your love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You lift me up with Your love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You lift me up<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/snJPPprhhe0?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Songwriters: Fuqua, Havens, Jordan Mohilowski, Dan Ostebo<\/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 style=\"text-align: left;\">When Paul was writing to the Corinthians he boasted of his weakness (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20corinthians%2012%3A6-10&amp;version=NASB;AMP;NIV;NKJV\" target=\"_blank\">2 Corinthians 12:6-10<\/a>.) He boasted of being able to endure the pain God felt was necessary to keep Paul humble and ready to serve. Paul<em> did<\/em> endure many hardships in order to do what God had called him to do. Paul endured beatings, shipwrecks, near starvation, severe thirst, and abandonment from friends. All of this to make sure everyone who would listen,\u00a0 could receive, and become a servant of God. Paul wanted others to know about God, to love God, and to have the passion Paul was given to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to all of the nations, to all \u00a0people.<\/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 style=\"text-align: left;\">Lord, thank You for lifting us up. Thank You for being there for us and for not always answering our requests the way we want. Please give us wisdom to know when we need to stop and listen, and when we need to step out in faith to do Your will. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for the sunrise Waiting for the day Waiting for a sign That I&#8217;m where You want me to be You know my heart is heavy And the hurt is deep But when I feel like giving up You&#8217;re reminding me That we all fall down sometimes But when I hit the ground You lift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[7593,1287,425,7595,7594,4932,6301,1071],"class_list":["post-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-2-corinthians-126-10","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-lift-me-up","tag-paul-boasts-of-his-weakness","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-the-afters","tag-tina-marin","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-lift","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22428,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions\/22428"}],"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=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}