{"id":22785,"date":"2014-11-12T00:15:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T05:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22785"},"modified":"2014-11-11T18:43:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T23:43:39","slug":"life-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/12\/life-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Of Praise"},"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 will love You, Lord, always<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Not just for the things You&#8217;ve done for me <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And I will praise You all my days<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Not just for the change You&#8217;ve made in me<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ll praise you for You are holy, Lord<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And I&#8217;ll lift my hands, but You are worthy of so much more<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">For You are awesome, God of the Nations, <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lion of Judah, Rock of the Ages, Alpha, Omega<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You&#8217;re worthy of all praise<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">More that these hands I&#8217;ll raise <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ll live a life of praise<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I will serve You, Lord, always <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">For You are my strength<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">When I am weak <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I will never be afraid for You are my rock and You protect me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">But I&#8217;ll praise You for You are holy, Lord<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And I&#8217;ll lift my hands, but You are worthy of so much more<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wh3QVzJW9Ss?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Singer\/Songwriter: Mark Hall along with Casting Crowns<\/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: center;\">Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song.<br \/>\nFor the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.<br \/>\nPsalms 95:2-3<\/p>\n<p>When I am weak and weary, all I need to do is put on a song of praise&#8230;it instantly gets my heart and my thoughts on the goodness of Jesus. \u00a0I have heard it said that \u2018a heart full of gratitude begins when my sense of entitlement ends*\u2019. \u00a0Even in the midst of the most difficult of circumstances we have so much to be thankful for!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people<br \/>\nmay cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.<br \/>\nTherefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away,<br \/>\nyet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.<br \/>\n2 Corinthians 4:15-16<\/p>\n<p>It is in the hard stuff that we are renewed and strengthened day by day. God is our Strength when we are weary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The LORD is my Strength and my Shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped.<br \/>\nMy heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to Him in song.<br \/>\nPsalm 28:7<\/p>\n<p>When I think of strength and being strengthened I think of a mighty oak tree. May this poem about the mighty oak tree encourage you this day&#8230; I know it blessed me!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Oak Tree<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nby Johnny Ray Ryder Jr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">A mighty wind blew night and day<br \/>\nIt stole the oak tree&#8217;s leaves away<br \/>\nThen snapped its boughs and pulled its bark<br \/>\nUntil the oak was tired and stark<br \/>\nBut still the oak tree held its ground<br \/>\nWhile other trees fell all around<br \/>\nThe weary wind gave up and spoke.<br \/>\nHow can you still be standing, Oak?<br \/>\nThe oak tree said, I know that you<br \/>\nCan break each branch of mine in two<br \/>\nCarry every leaf away<br \/>\nShake my limbs, and make me sway<br \/>\nBut I have roots stretched in the earth<br \/>\nGrowing stronger since my birth<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll never touch them, for you see<br \/>\nThey are the deepest part of me<br \/>\nUntil today, I wasn&#8217;t sure<br \/>\nOf just how much I could endure<br \/>\nBut now I&#8217;ve found, with thanks to you<br \/>\nI&#8217;m stronger than I ever knew<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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, I thank You that when we are weak You are strong. \u00a0And that no matter what we are enduring we KNOW You are faithful! \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 Name!! \u00a0Amen!!!<\/p>\n<p>* quote from Steven Furtick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will love You, Lord, always Not just for the things You&#8217;ve done for me And I will praise You all my days Not just for the change You&#8217;ve made in me I&#8217;ll praise you for You are holy, Lord And I&#8217;ll lift my hands, but You are worthy of so much more For You [&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":[2645,1287,425,2069,7752,4654,4610,6695,4932,7751,7753],"class_list":["post-22785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-casting-crowns","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-god-is-faithful","tag-johnny-ray-ryder-jr","tag-kim-golds","tag-life-of-praise","tag-mark-hall","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-the-oak-tree","tag-worthy-of-our-praise","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-5Vv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22785","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=22785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22787,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22785\/revisions\/22787"}],"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=22785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}