{"id":22473,"date":"2014-10-24T00:15:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T04:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22473"},"modified":"2014-10-23T19:25:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T23:25:35","slug":"come-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/24\/come-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Come To The River"},"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;m torn between myself and Your Truth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">These cursed memories, forever seeping through<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">My thirst for myself left me wanting more<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2018Til I found myself facedown on Your shore<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You say, Come to the river<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, and lay yourself down and let your heart be found<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You say, Come to the river<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Drink from the cup I pour and thirst no more<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">My restless heart led me astray<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">To my selfish pride I became my own slave<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But You placed a thirst in me with no drink in sight<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;Cause I could not see \u2018til I saw through Your eyes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eLj2tZCs6Ms?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Songwriters: Allen Salmon, Rhett Walker Canipe \/ Performed by Rhett Walker Band<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u00a0 * \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been caught in this place? \u00a0\u201cTorn between yourself and His Truth\u201d? \u00a0I know I have\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>This song has such powerful Truth in it. \u00a0A restless heart can lead you astray and to selfish pride you will become your own slave. \u00a0WOW!!! \u00a0Powerful words to consider\u2026. \u00a0Let\u2019s see what God says about pride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The pride of your heart has deceived you,<br \/>\nyou who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights,<br \/>\nyou who say to yourself, \u2018Who can bring me down to the ground?\u2019<br \/>\nObadiah 1:3<\/p>\n<p>A prideful heart leads to a restless heart where you can be lost to yourself. \u00a0When my heart is restless I must come to the river and drink from the cup of living water where I will thirst no more.<\/p>\n<p>I love how this excerpt from this woman\u2019s website describes God\u2019s love penetrating a restless heart. \u00a0She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That\u2019s the Trust He\u2019s asking of me, to let His love, as deep and endless as the ocean, to hold me up, to let the wellspring of His heart meet my deepest needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(http:\/\/www.arestlessheart.com\/)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the very trust that God is asking of you and of me, too. \u00a0That the \u201cwellspring of God\u2019s heart will meet my deepest need.\u201d \u00a0Once we know and embrace the love of the Father towards us we can then be satisfied in our deepest needs and we will thirst no more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again.<br \/>\nIt becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.<br \/>\nJohn 4:14 NLT<\/p>\n<p>God is calling us to come and drink from the endless river where we will thirst no more and let Him fill us up. \u00a0So many times in life we try and fill up those empty places with other things that will never satisfy us. \u00a0They aren\u2019t meant to&#8230;only God can fill the empty places of the heart until we are completely satisfied. \u00a0Will you let Him? \u00a0The choice is ours. \u00a0He is waiting with open arms for us to take the first step. So He can tell His daughters how precious and valuable we are to Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u00a0 * \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heavenly Father, may my restless heart never lead me astray to where I become my own slave. \u00a0May I choose to drink of the Living Water where I will thirst no more. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name!! \u00a0Amen!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m torn between myself and Your Truth These cursed memories, forever seeping through My thirst for myself left me wanting more \u2018Til I found myself facedown on Your shore You say, Come to the river Oh, and lay yourself down and let your heart be found You say, Come to the river Drink from the [&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":[7624,7623,1287,425,5967,4654,6378,7621,1510,4932,7622],"class_list":["post-22473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-a-restless-heart-com","tag-come-to-the-river","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-john-414","tag-kim-golds","tag-living-water","tag-obadiah-13","tag-pride","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-rhett-walker-band","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-5Qt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473","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=22473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22477,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473\/revisions\/22477"}],"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=22473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}