{"id":23268,"date":"2014-12-09T00:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T05:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=23268"},"modified":"2014-12-09T07:12:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T12:12:51","slug":"come-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/09\/come-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Come and Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23090\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014.jpg\" alt=\"phssChristmasgraphic2014\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014.jpg 560w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b3053c;\">Angels from the realms of glory<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"> Wing your flight o&#8217;er the earth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"> Ye who sang creations story<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"> Now proclaim Messiah&#8217;s birth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #b3053c;\">Come and worship, come and worship, come and worship<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"> Worship Christ the newborn King<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b3053c;\">Shepherds in the fields abiding<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"> Watching o&#8217;er your flocks by night<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"> God with man is now residing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"> Under shines the Infant light<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b3053c;\">Saints before the altar, bending<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"> Watching, longing, hope and fear<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b3053c;\"> Suddenly the Lord descending<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b3053c;\">In His temple shall appear<\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/83huFAMOte0?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Written by James Montgomery; Sung by Bebo Norman<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #b3053c;\">* \u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271d \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2605\u00a0 \u00a0 *<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Oh, to be first-time parents! \u00a0Remember the fears, the concerns of not knowing if you were going to know how to care for the child? \u00a0What if they did this, or if they had that, is this normal, should I call a doctor? \u00a0Everything had to be perfect&#8212;new clothes, new crib, new bottles, new car seat, new everything. \u00a0But then, imagine, Mary and Joseph. They were not home, they were in a stable behind a hotel. \u00a0There were no more rooms or homes for them to visit. \u00a0No friends they could stay with. \u00a0At least Joseph was able to find a place warm, dry, and slightly comfortable for Mary and his soon-to-be-born stepson.<\/p>\n<p>Then, once Mary had Jesus, everything changed. \u00a0Having cleaned out a manger in which to lay Jesus, after wrapping Him in swaddling clothes, they began to have visitors. \u00a0Shepherds came to see the wonder of the promised Messiah&#8230;the one the Angel told them would be in a stable. \u00a0Both Mary and Joseph were tired, but excited to see Jesus, and to welcome these strangers with news of the angelic host proclaiming the birth.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* \u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271d \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2605\u00a0 \u00a0 *<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>As we celebrate the birth of our Savior, let us<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em> Come and Worship<\/em><\/span> the love our Father in heaven has for us His people. Without God desiring a relationship with all of us, Jesus would not have been born.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank You, God, for loving us so much that You would send Your Son, Jesus, to earth to live among us!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angels from the realms of glory Wing your flight o&#8217;er the earth Ye who sang creations story Now proclaim Messiah&#8217;s birth Come and worship, come and worship, come and worship Worship Christ the newborn King Shepherds in the fields abiding Watching o&#8217;er your flocks by night God with man is now residing Under shines the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23090,"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":[7962,4663,7963,1287,425,4932,1071],"class_list":["post-23268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-bebo-norman","tag-christmas-carols","tag-come-and-worship","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-tina-marin","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-63i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23268","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=23268"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23282,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23268\/revisions\/23282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}