{"id":23886,"date":"2015-01-13T00:15:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=23886"},"modified":"2015-01-13T07:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:25:50","slug":"give-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/13\/give-jesus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the morning, when I rise<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In the morning, when I rise<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In the morning, when I rise<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Give me Jesus<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Give me Jesus, give me Jesus<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>You can have all this world<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> But give me Jesus<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And when I am alone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh and when I am alone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And when I am alone<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Give me Jesus<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And when I come to die<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh and when I come to die<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And when I come to die<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Give me Jesus<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rZ8k9m2hwo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Traditional African Spiritual Hymn<br \/>\nPerformed by Fernando Ortega<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div 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><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Such a beautiful and meditative song to worship our Savior! \u00a0 Can you imagine being in God&#8217;s presence one day? \u00a0Oh sweet friend, I can! \u00a0I can just imagine being awed, speechless, and at peace&#8212;all at once. \u00a0God is our Friend. \u00a0He wants that relationship with us that is a great friendship&#8230;greater than any friendship we will ever have on earth.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You see, God created us and He knows us inside and out. \u00a0He knows what we are thinking and what path we will most likely take. \u00a0He knows our character and He knows our name. It might not be our earthly name&#8230;but a name that God has for us. \u00a0I hope and pray with my mistakes that I will have a name that I will not be ashamed to bear; I would be just devasted. \u00a0God extends grace and mercy to us. \u00a0We are not to take for granted that grace will <strong><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">always<\/span> <\/em><\/strong>be given. \u00a0God does have His limits. \u00a0We have to be willing to turn and repent from our ways and ask God to give us Jesus in a new way&#8212;in a way that will make us stand up and shout from the rooftops how wonderful our God is and how much He loved us to send His only Son Jesus to show us how to live a perfect life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div 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><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thank You, Father, for sending us Your Son. \u00a0Thank You for giving artists the words to say to bring us closer to us. Extend to us Your grace and mercy, even when we do not deserve it. \u00a0We strive to please You and to break the cycle we seem unable to break. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name we pray, Amen.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning, when I rise In the morning, when I rise In the morning, when I rise Give me Jesus \u00a0 Give me Jesus, give me Jesus You can have all this world But give me Jesus \u00a0 And when I am alone Oh and when I am alone And when I am alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[8218,1287,425,6087,4932,1071,6088],"class_list":["post-23886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-fernanado-ortega","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-give-me-jesus","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-tina-marin","tag-traditional-african-spiritual","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-6dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23886","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=23886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23905,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23886\/revisions\/23905"}],"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=23886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}