{"id":22660,"date":"2014-11-05T00:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T05:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22660"},"modified":"2014-11-05T00:59:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T05:59:15","slug":"more-of-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/05\/more-of-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Of You"},"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 made my castle tall<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I built up every wall<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This is my kingdom and it needs to fall<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I want You and no one else<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Empty me of myself<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Until the only thing that&#8217;s left is<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">More of You<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Less of me<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Make me who I&#8217;m meant to be<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re all I want all I need<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re everything<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Take it all I surrender<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Be my King<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> God, I choose<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> More of You<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Less of me<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">This life I hold so close<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, God, I let it go<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I refuse to gain the world and lose my soul<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So take it all\u2014I abandon everything I am You can have it<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The only thing I need is<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">All to You I surrender<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> All to You, my blessed Savior<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I surrender all<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qYXjXi8PtzQ?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Singer\/Songwriter ~ Colton Dixon with Ben Glover and David Garcia<\/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>&#8220;I made my castle tall, I built up every wall&#8230;and it needs to fall&#8230;.&#8221; This lyric gives me a visual of a sandcastle and reminds me of the parable in Matthew 7:24-27.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everyone therefore who hears these words of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn&#8217;t fall, for it was founded on the rock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everyone who hears these words of Mine, and doesn&#8217;t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell\u2014and great was its fall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If our lives are not built on the solid foundation of Jesus\u2026it will quickly dissolve away much like the sand\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.<br \/>\nPsalms 78:35<\/p>\n<p>I need more of HIM and less of me\u2026. When I start to focus on myself and my circumstances more than focusing on God, I quickly dissolve into a puddle of despair with no hope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.<br \/>\nProverbs 13:12 NIV<\/p>\n<p>We must continue to focus on God and draw our strength in the journey from Him.<\/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>Heavenly Father, all to You I surrender, my blessed Savior\u2026I need more of You and less of me! \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, Amen!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made my castle tall I built up every wall This is my kingdom and it needs to fall I want You and no one else Empty me of myself Until the only thing that&#8217;s left is More of You Less of me Make me who I&#8217;m meant to be You&#8217;re all I want all [&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":[7706,5033,1287,425,7709,4295,4654,6638,7708,7707,4932,7705],"class_list":["post-22660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-built-on-rock-not-sand","tag-colton-dixon","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-hear-jesus-words-and-do-them","tag-jesus-is-the-rock","tag-kim-golds","tag-matthew-724-27","tag-more-of-you-less-of-me","tag-psalm-7835","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-wise-man-foolish-man","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-5Tu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660","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=22660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22667,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660\/revisions\/22667"}],"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=22660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}