{"id":24621,"date":"2015-02-26T00:25:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T05:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=24621"},"modified":"2015-02-26T00:29:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T05:29:10","slug":"broken-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/26\/broken-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Vessels"},"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><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">I once was lost but now I&#8217;m found, was blind but now I see<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">All these pieces <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Broken and scattered <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">In mercy gathered <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Mended and whole <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Empty handed <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But not forsaken <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ve been set free <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ve been set free<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I once was lost but now I&#8217;m found&#8230;was blind but now I see <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, I can see You now <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, I can see the love in Your eyes <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Laying Yourself down <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Raising up the broken to life<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You take our failure <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You take our weakness <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You set Your treasure <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">In jars of clay <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">So take this heart, Lord <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ll be Your vessel <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">The world to see <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your life in me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fLu2ZFqWGfU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Temree Miller along with SaddleBack Worship<br \/>\nWritten by Joel Houston and Jonas Myrin<\/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 *\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Such <em>grace<\/em>&#8230;such <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">amazing<\/span> <em>grace<\/em>!!!<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How blessed are we {mankind} to have been shown such love and <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span> by Almighty God that He would give us the gift of <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span> through the awesome, incredible gift of His Son? !! ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But not as the offence, so also is the free gift.<br \/>\nFor if through the offence of one many be dead,<br \/>\nmuch more the <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span> of God, and the gift by <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span>,<br \/>\nwhich is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.<br \/>\nRomans 5:15<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ\u2014by<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> grace<\/span> you have been saved\u2014and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> grace<\/span> in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> grace<\/span> you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.<br \/>\nEphesians 2:4-9<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> This <strong>is<\/strong><\/em> amazing grace<\/span>! \u00a0That we&#8230;dead in our trespasses and our sins, without hope, destined for eternal damnation&#8230;have been redeemed, saved, set apart, made alive, raised up, seated in heavenly places!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He &lt;Jesus&gt;appeared to me also. For I am the least of the apostles,<br \/>\nand not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.<br \/>\nBut by the<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> grace<\/span> of God I am what I am, and His <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span> toward me did not prove vain;<br \/>\nbut I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span> of God with me.<br \/>\n1 Corinthians 15:8-10<\/p>\n<p>The apostle Paul was a man who always purposed to magnify God and speak well of the <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span> he had received.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026and the <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span> of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.<br \/>\nThe saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance,<br \/>\nthat Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.<br \/>\nBut I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost,<br \/>\nJesus Christ might display His perfect patience as an example<br \/>\nto those who were to believe in Him for eternal life.<br \/>\n1 Timothy 1:14-16<\/p>\n<p>In all of Paul\u2019s encouragement and admonition through each of the Epistles, he wrote over and over again to the first century believers of the greatness of God\u2019s <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span>. Paul seemed always to endeavor to help the people (and us, too!) to remain aware and thankful for God\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>grace<\/em><\/span>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world,<br \/>\nthat we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:<br \/>\nHaving predestinated us unto the adoption of children<br \/>\nby Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,<br \/>\nTo the praise of the glory of His <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span>, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved.<br \/>\nIn whom we have redemption through His blood,<br \/>\nthe forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> grace<\/span>;<br \/>\nEphesians 1:4-7<\/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 *\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I pray for each of us that our hearts will cry out every day with praise and acknowledgment of His great <span style=\"color: #800080;\">grace<\/span> to us. And that we, like our brother Paul, would share this with others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Come and hear, all you who reverently and worshipfully fear God,<br \/>\nand I will declare what He has done for me!<br \/>\nPsalm 66:16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Amazing grace! <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I once was lost but now I&#8217;m found, was blind but now I see&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now I&#8217;m found, was blind but now I see All these pieces Broken and scattered In mercy gathered Mended and whole Empty handed But not forsaken I&#8217;ve been set free I&#8217;ve been set free Amazing grace! 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