{"id":24943,"date":"2015-03-16T00:15:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T04:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=24943"},"modified":"2015-03-15T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T21:57:30","slug":"amazing-love-you-are-my-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/16\/amazing-love-you-are-my-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Love (You Are My King)"},"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&#8217;m forgiven because You were forsaken<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m accepted, You were condemned<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m alive and well, Your Spirit is within me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Because You died and rose again<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Amazing love<\/strong>, how can it be<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">That You, my King, should die for me<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Amazing love<\/strong>, I know it&#8217;s true<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">It&#8217;s my joy to honor You<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">In all I do, to honor You<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are my King<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are my King<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Jesus, You are my King<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are my King<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nwjTT2bqKk0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Newsboys<br \/>\nwritten by Billy James Foote<\/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>This song personifies Easter to me. \u00a0I love the parallels given in this song\u2014<strong>forgiven<\/strong>\/<em>forsaken<\/em>, <strong>accepted<\/strong>\/<em>condemned<\/em>, <strong>alive<\/strong>\/<em>died<\/em>. \u00a0All these gifts and blessings are mine because of Jesus\u2019 sacrifice. \u00a0A sacrifice He willingly chose to make.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men,<br \/>\na Man of sorrows and pains,<br \/>\nand acquainted with grief and sickness;<br \/>\nand like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised,<br \/>\nand we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him.<br \/>\nIsaiah 53:3 AMP<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t even find words for this! \u00a0How is it possible Christ would choose to be treated in this manner? \u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>Amazing love<\/strong><\/em><\/span> indeed! \u00a0Mark 15:34 (AMP) gives us a glimpse of what Christ experienced:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?<br \/>\n\u2014which means, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me<br \/>\n[deserting Me and leaving Me helpless and abandoned]?<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was left helpless and abandoned on the Cross so we might be forgiven. \u00a0God turned His back on His only Son in order to redeem us. \u00a0Look at 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT): &#8220;For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.&#8221; \u00a0We may be persecuted, but we will never be forsaken; struck down, but never destroyed (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2+Corinthians+4%3A8-9&amp;version=NASB;ESV;AMP;NLT;NIV\" target=\"_blank\">2 Corinthians 4:8-9<\/a>). Because of Christ\u2019s selfless sacrifice, we are accepted and protected by God Himself!<\/p>\n<p>And not only are we accepted, but Romans 8:1 tells us &#8220;Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus&#8230;&#8221;. \u00a0Christ was condemned in our place so that we could share His robe of righteousness. \u00a0We will never be condemned by God. \u00a0It is that robe of righteousness that allows us to stand before God, holy, pure, unblemished and unstained.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 61:10 (AMP) talks about why we should feel joy in honoring Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I will rejoice greatly in the Lord,<br \/>\nMy soul will exult in my God;<br \/>\nFor He has clothed me with garments of salvation,<br \/>\nHe has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity for salvation exists only because of Jesus\u2019 voluntary sacrifice. \u00a0THAT is <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>amazing love<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. \u00a0It is our choice to honor Him with our lives. \u00a0We should be honored to call Him our King.<\/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>Lord, I cannot even begin to put into words what I feel when I think of all You chose to suffer just so I could be forgiven and accepted. \u00a0\u2018Thank You\u2019 will never be enough to express the depth of my gratitude. \u00a0It is my joy to honor You in all I do. \u00a0In Your name I pray, Amen \u2013 so be it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m forgiven because You were forsaken I&#8217;m accepted, You were condemned I&#8217;m alive and well, Your Spirit is within me Because You died and rose again Amazing love, how can it be That You, my King, should die for me Amazing love, I know it&#8217;s true It&#8217;s my joy to honor You In all I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"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":[8584,3905,8586,8587,5889,1287,425,5826,8583,8585,5869,4932,1721],"class_list":["post-24943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-2-corinthians-48-9","tag-2-corinthians-521","tag-amazing-love-you-are-my-king","tag-billy-foote","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-isaiah-533","tag-isaiah-6110","tag-mark-1534","tag-newsboys","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-romans-81","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-6uj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943","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=24943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24945,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943\/revisions\/24945"}],"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=24943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}