{"id":23798,"date":"2015-01-07T00:15:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T05:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=23798"},"modified":"2015-01-06T22:17:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T03:17:25","slug":"light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/07\/light-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Light"},"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 wanna be in the Light<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> As You are in the Light<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I wanna shine like the stars in the heavens<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, Lord be my Light and be my Salvation<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> &#8216;Cause all I want is to be in the Light<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There is no other place that I&#8217;d rather be<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> No other place that&#8217;s right for me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Than in Your Light&#8230;in Your Light<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wXMDPs-mLcQ?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Singer \/ Songwriter: Toby McKeehan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What does it mean to<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0be<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> in the light<\/em><\/span><\/strong> ??<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light,<br \/>\nthen we have fellowship with each other,<br \/>\nand the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.<br \/>\n1 John 1:7 NLT<\/p>\n<p>So, what <em>does it mean<\/em> to be\u00a0in the light? \u00a0It means to have close fellowship with God. \u00a0I love this excerpt from Taste Heaven Now:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf we are to walk in the Light as He is in the Light, we need to ask an important question. How is He in the Light? We need to know this because we are to walk in the Light in the same way as He is in the Light.<br \/>\n&#8230;Since we are to &#8220;walk in the Light as He is in the Light&#8221; and we know that He &#8220;wraps Himself&#8221; with Light, we should do the same.<br \/>\nWhen you live your life continually wrapping yourself in His Light you have fellowship with God and He continually cleanses you from all sin (1 John 1:7).\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tasteheavennow.net\/Practicing_the_Presence_of_God\/Walk_in_the_Light_as_God_is_in_the_Light.htm\" target=\"_blank\">quoted from the Taste Heaven Now website<\/a><br \/>\n(click link to read entire article.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I love that&#8212; \u2018<em>continually wrapping yourself in HIS light<\/em>.\u2019 \u00a0We must make a conscious effort each and every day to put God first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously,<br \/>\nand He will give you everything you need.<br \/>\nMatthew 6:33 NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heavenly Father, thank You for the ability to walk in the light so we may be free of the disease of self and seek You first in all things. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 Name, AMEN!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanna be in the Light As You are in the Light I wanna shine like the stars in the heavens Oh, Lord be my Light and be my Salvation &#8216;Cause all I want is to be in the Light There is no other place that I&#8217;d rather be No other place that&#8217;s right for [&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":[7012,1287,425,6987,4654,664,4932,8175,7398,6214],"class_list":["post-23798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-john-17","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-jesus-is-the-light","tag-kim-golds","tag-matthew-633","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-taste-heaven-now","tag-toby-mckeehan","tag-tobymac","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-6bQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798","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=23798"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23811,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions\/23811"}],"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=23798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}