{"id":24297,"date":"2015-02-07T00:15:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T05:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=24297"},"modified":"2015-02-06T22:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T03:22:35","slug":"hands-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/07\/hands-god\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Hands Of God"},"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;\">We have raised our hopes and our cities high <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">We have followed fragile dreams <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But only One could take the measure of our goals <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And we&#8217;ve stumbled over the trials of life <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And we&#8217;ve wrestled the unseen <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But only One can calm the storm inside our souls<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the hands of God we will fall <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Rest for the restless, and the weary <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Hope for the sinner <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the hands of God we stand tall <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Hands that are mighty to deliver <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Giving us freedom<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When our strength gave way to the weight of guilt <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;Til we strained for every breath <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Only One could lift our shame and make us well <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And when all is finished and we face <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">The fearsome power of death <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Only One has overcome the gates of hell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You&#8217;re amazing <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You&#8217;re amazing, You are <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And we praise You, Lord <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">For what Your hands have done<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1nS--06Mwr0?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Steve Taylor, Jeff Frankenstein, Peter Furler \u00a0~~ Newsboys<\/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;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, high Your right hand. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Psalm 89:13<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hands of God are huge and His reach is long. \u00a0He created the universe, the Earth, and all that live and breathe. \u00a0His hands are the only ones strong enough to defeat evil and bring victory to us all. \u00a0Yet these hands are gentle and comforting.<\/p>\n<p>There is a movie that my kids and I got for Christmas; we watch it a couple of times each week. \u00a0\u201c<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wreck-It Ralph<\/span><\/strong>\u201d is that movie. \u00a0In the movie, Ralph (the main character) is the villain of an arcade video game. \u00a0He is <em>huge<\/em>\u2014600 pounds, tall, and his hands are huge. \u00a0He uses those hands to destroy things in the arcade game. \u00a0Yet, in the movie, he and his huge hands become a hero by helping to rescue another a game. \u00a0For once, Ralph is not the bad guy but the good guy.<\/p>\n<p>When I watch that movie, I imagine God\u2019s hands as infinitely bigger than Ralph\u2019s. \u00a0They can build or destroy anything. \u00a0That is how strong God is. \u00a0He can be fierce enough to destroy but loving enough to create or fix. \u00a0He is the only One that can lift us up and save us. \u00a0He is bigger than Ralph. Because of God, we have a solid base and an endless love.<\/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>Dear Heavenly Father: Thank You for taking us into Your loving arms. Your reach is infinite and huge. This reach is what brings us back from the depths of despair. It brings us joy and eternal life. In Jesus\u2019 name, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have raised our hopes and our cities high We have followed fragile dreams But only One could take the measure of our goals And we&#8217;ve stumbled over the trials of life And we&#8217;ve wrestled the unseen But only One can calm the storm inside our souls In the hands of God we will fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"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":[1287,425,8386,3211,5869,8385,4932],"class_list":["post-24297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-in-the-hands-of-god","tag-laura-pattillo","tag-newsboys","tag-psalm-8913","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","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-6jT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24297","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24299,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24297\/revisions\/24299"}],"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=24297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}