{"id":24580,"date":"2015-02-23T00:15:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T05:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=24580"},"modified":"2015-02-22T23:45:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T04:45:49","slug":"great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/23\/great\/","title":{"rendered":"Great I AM"},"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 want to be close, close to Your side<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So Heaven is real and death is a lie<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I want to hear voices of angels above<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Singing as one<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Hallelujah, holy, holy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> God Almighty, the great I AM<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Who is worthy, none beside Thee<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> God Almighty, the great I AM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I want to be near, near to Your heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Loving the world and hating the dark<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I want to see dry bones living again<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Singing as one<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The great I AM<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The mountains shake before You the demons run and flee<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> At the mention of the name King of Majesty<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> There is no power in hell or any who can stand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Before the power and the presence of the great I AM<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The great I AM the great I AM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y_VR-zwp2KA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Songwriter: Jared Anderson<br \/>\nPerformed by Phillips, Craig &amp; Dean<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cI am El-Shaddai\u2014\u2018God Almighty.\u201d<br \/>\nGenesis 17:1b NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">God said to Moses, &#8220;I AM WHO I AM&#8221;<br \/>\nExodus 3:14 NASB<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I AM<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jehovah, our eternal and unchangeable God<br \/>\nWho is always the same&#8212;yesterday, today, and forever.<\/h4>\n<p>Nothing ever stays the same in this world or in our life. \u00a0Nothing except our God. \u00a0He is our Rock, solid and unchanging. \u00a0Such strength in just two little words&#8212;I AM. \u00a0Those three letters inspire such confidence and hope. \u00a0There is so much wrapped up in those two words&#8230;it could never be fully explained this side of Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Exodus 15:11 (NLT) asks the question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who is like You among the gods, O Lord\u2014<br \/>\nglorious in holiness, awesome in splendor, performing great wonders?<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah 7:10 (AMP) answers that question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For among all the wise [men or gods] of the nations<br \/>\nand in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>NO<\/strong><\/em> one<\/span> like our God.<br \/>\nHe is the <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>only<\/strong> One<\/em> <\/span>worthy of our praise.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>There is no power in hell or any who can stand before the Power and the Presence of the Great I AM.<\/em>\u2019 \u00a0Yet we have been chosen by Him. \u00a0We can be close to Him. \u00a0We can know His heart. \u00a0And one day we will stand before Him. \u00a0But we will never have to stand before Him in judgment. \u00a0Isaiah 38:17 tells us \u201cYou have cast all my sins behind Your back.\u201d \u00a0Imagine that&#8230;standing before the Great I AM, clothed in righteousness, hearing the angels sing with one voice<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Hallelujah, holy, holy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> God Almighty, the great I AM<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Who is worthy, none beside Thee<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> God Almighty, the great I AM<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Father, I cannot even conceive the magnitude of Who You are\u2014the Great I AM\u2014much less of standing before You, pure and holy. Thank You for the confidence those two small words convey. \u00a0You are I AM and we have nothing to fear. \u00a0I desire to be close to You, near to Your heart. \u00a0Remind me I am always in the presence of I AM and that Your Spirit dwells within me. \u00a0\u2018Hallelujah, Holy Holy\u2019 You are worthy of my praise. \u00a0Amen \u2013 So be it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be close, close to Your side So Heaven is real and death is a lie I want to hear voices of angels above Singing as one Hallelujah, holy, holy God Almighty, the great I AM Who is worthy, none beside Thee God Almighty, the great I AM I want to be near, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":13840,"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":[5889,8472,3069,1287,8474,425,8470,8471,8473,4932,2978],"class_list":["post-24580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-exodus-1511","tag-exodus-314","tag-gch","tag-genesis-171","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-isaiah-3817","tag-jeremiah-710","tag-phillips-craig-and-dean","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-the-great-i-am","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-great","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24580","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24580"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24586,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24580\/revisions\/24586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}