{"id":23959,"date":"2015-01-17T00:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T05:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=23959"},"modified":"2015-01-16T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T03:02:19","slug":"pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/17\/pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass It On"},"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;\">It only takes a spark<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To get a fire going<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And soon all those around<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Can warm up to its glowing<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That&#8217;s how it is with God&#8217;s love<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Once you&#8217;ve experienced it<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You spread your love to everyone<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You want to pass it on<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">What a wondrous time is spring<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When all the trees are budding<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The birds begin to sing,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The flowers start their blooming<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That&#8217;s how it is with God&#8217;s love<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Once you&#8217;ve experienced it<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You want to sing, it&#8217;s fresh like spring<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You want to pass it on<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I wish for you my friend,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This happiness that I&#8217;ve found<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You can come join in,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It matters not where you&#8217;re bound<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;ll shout it from the mountain tops<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I want the world to know<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The joy of friends has come to me<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I want to pass it on<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K4da2WbC19Y?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Composed by Kurt Kaiser ~ Sung by Evie Tournquist (Karlsson)<\/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;\">As I start this new year of 2015, I must <strong><em>force<\/em> <\/strong>myself to take a few moments to review what my past year has been, and to reflect on what I want in my new year. \u00a0It\u2019s very easy for me to just keep running from December 31, 2014 right into January 1, 2015 without even thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>This past year I have grown more in love with Jesus. \u00a0There have been good times when the flame of His love has burned brightly for all to see. \u00a0And then there were the tough times when it seemed to be only a spark hidden in the ashes. \u00a0It could only be seen when I looked closely and stirred the ashes around. \u00a0In the hardest of times&#8230;in the darkest of moments&#8230;I\u2019ve known deep in my heart that He was still with me and my family and my friends. \u00a0I just needed to stir the ashes to find the spark and get the fire going again.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>That\u2019s how it is with God\u2019s love<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0His love is always with us through all that we go through. \u00a0It may seem that our circumstances (ashes) have suffocated it but, <strong>thank God,<\/strong> that is impossible. \u00a0Nothing can separate us from the love of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can anything ever separate us from Christ\u2019s love?<br \/>\nDoes it mean He no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity,<br \/>\nor are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?<br \/>\n(As the Scriptures say, \u201cFor Your sake we are killed every day;<br \/>\nwe are being slaughtered like sheep.\u201d)<br \/>\nNo, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, Who loved us.<br \/>\nAnd I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God\u2019s love.<br \/>\nNeither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,<br \/>\nneither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow\u2014<br \/>\nnot even the powers of hell can separate us from God\u2019s love.<br \/>\nNo power in the sky above or in the earth below\u2014<br \/>\nindeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God<br \/>\nthat is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.<br \/>\nRomans 8:35-39 NLT<\/p>\n<p>In this new year with this wonderful promise, I pray that the light of God\u2019s love will shine through me and that the warmth from the flame of His love will touch the hearts of others. \u00a0I want to pass on \u2018<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>this happiness that I\u2019ve found<\/em><\/span>\u2019 in Christ to those around me\u2014friend and stranger alike. \u00a0Is this your desire and prayer for 2015?<\/p>\n<p>With great love, I pray this over my grandchildren&#8230;and now I pray this over each of you:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;I pray to our Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. \u00a0Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. \u00a0Your roots will grow down into God\u2019s love and keep you strong. \u00a0And may you have the power to understand, as all God\u2019s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. \u00a0May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. \u00a0Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. \u00a0Now all glory to God, Who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. \u00a0Glory to Him in the Church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ephesians 3:14-21 NLT<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">If you have the light of Christ\u2019s love in you\u2014<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>pass it on<\/em> <\/span>in 2015.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only takes a spark To get a fire going And soon all those around Can warm up to its glowing That&#8217;s how it is with God&#8217;s love Once you&#8217;ve experienced it You spread your love to everyone You want to pass it on What a wondrous time is spring When all the trees are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"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":[3660,5416,8246,425,441,8244,620,8247,8243,4932,5566],"class_list":["post-23959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-clella-gilbert-fox","tag-ephesians-314-21","tag-evie-tornquist-karlsson","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-gods-love","tag-kurt-kaiser","tag-love","tag-nothing-can-ever-separate-us-from-christs-love","tag-pass-it-on","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-romans-835-39","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-pass","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23966,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959\/revisions\/23966"}],"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=23959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}