{"id":25547,"date":"2015-04-30T00:15:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T04:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25547"},"modified":"2015-04-29T23:18:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T03:18:51","slug":"greater-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/30\/greater-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater"},"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;\">Bring your tired<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bring your shame<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bring your guilt<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bring your pain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Don\u2019t you know that\u2019s not your name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You will always be much more to me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Every day I wrestle with the voices<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">That keep telling me I\u2019m not right<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But that\u2019s all right<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>\u2018Cause I hear a voice and He calls me redeemed<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>When others say I\u2019ll never be enough<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>And greater is the One living inside of me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Than he who is living in the world<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>In the world<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>In the world<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>And greater is the One living inside of me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Than he who is living in the world<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bring your doubts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bring your fears<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bring your hurt<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bring your tears<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">There\u2019ll be no condemnation here<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are holy, righteous, and redeemed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Every time I fall<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">There\u2019ll be those who will call me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">A mistake<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Well that\u2019s ok<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There\u2019ll be days I lose the battle<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Grace says that it doesn\u2019t matter<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2018Cause the Cross already won the war<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">He\u2019s Greater<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">He\u2019s Greater<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I am learning to run freely<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Understanding just how He sees me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And it makes me love Him more and more<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">He\u2019s Greater<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">He\u2019s Greater<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9FxqcemvecA?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><center>MercyMe<br \/>\nwritten by: Bart Millard,\u00a0Nathan Cochran,\u00a0Barry Graul,\u00a0Mike Scheuchzer,\u00a0Robby Shaffer, along with\u00a0David Garcia,\u00a0Ben Glover<\/center><\/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 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Will you sing this truth along with me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Greater is the One living inside of me than he who is living in the world<\/em><\/span>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Declare it! \u00a0Confess it! \u00a0Proclaim it! \u00a0Believe it! \u00a0This truth needs to be deep in our hearts. \u00a0It has nothing to do with anything that you or I, my friend, can accomplish&#8230;it is ALL because of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him]<br \/>\nand have [already] defeated <i>and\u00a0<\/i>overcome them [the agents of the antichrist],<br \/>\nbecause He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world.<br \/>\n1 John 4:4 AMP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>I have been crucified with Christ;<br \/>\nand it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;<br \/>\nand the <i>life<\/i> which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,<br \/>\nWho loved me and gave Himself up for me.<br \/>\nGalatians 2:20<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are times (and there will be more times) when we are tempted to deny this truth&#8230;. \u00a0So you lost the battle today; not such a big deal!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Grace says that it doesn\u2019t matter &#8217;cause the Cross already won the war<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When we are willing to accept this grace we can be free. \u00a0Free to be just exactly who God (in Christ) has made us to be!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>We are set free from bondage and slavery to sin<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was for freedom that Christ set us free;<br \/>\nthereforekeep standing firm<br \/>\nand do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.<br \/>\nGalatians 5:1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We are free from condemnation<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text Rom-8-1\">Therefore there is now no condemnation<br \/>\nfor those who are in Christ Jesus.<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-28119\" class=\"text Rom-8-2\">For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus<br \/>\nhas set you free from the law of sin and of death.<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-28120\" class=\"text Rom-8-3\">For what the Law could not do&#8230;God did: sending His own Son<br \/>\nin the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin&#8230;.<br \/>\nRomans 8:1-3<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>We are alive to God and dead to sin<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <span id=\"en-NASB-28077\" class=\"text Rom-6-8\">Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-28078\" class=\"text Rom-6-9\">knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead,<br \/>\nis never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-28079\" class=\"text Rom-6-10\">For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all;<br \/>\nbut the life that He lives, He lives to God.<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-28080\" class=\"text Rom-6-11\">Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin,<br \/>\nbut alive to God in Christ Jesus.<\/span><br \/>\nRomans 6:8-11<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>We are\u00a0seated with Him now&#8230;and for eternity<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text Eph-2-1\">And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"en-NASB-29232\" class=\"text Eph-2-2\">in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world,<br \/>\naccording to the prince of the power of the air,<br \/>\nof the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-29233\" class=\"text Eph-2-3\">Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh,<br \/>\nindulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind,<br \/>\nand were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-29234\" class=\"text Eph-2-4\">But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-29235\" class=\"text Eph-2-5\">even when we were dead in our transgressions,<br \/>\nmade us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-29236\" class=\"text Eph-2-6\">and raised us up with Him,<br \/>\nand seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"en-NASB-29237\" class=\"text Eph-2-7\">so that in the ages to come He might show<br \/>\nthe surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.<\/span><br \/>\nEphesians 2:1-7<\/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 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Heavenly Father, how good and kind You are to us! \u00a0For all You have provided for us through Your Son, our Lord, we are so thankful! \u00a0Truly we are free indeed &#8217;cause &#8220;<em>greater is the One Who is living in us than he who is living in the world&#8221;<\/em>! \u00a0 We do get distracted and tempted to forget this Truth&#8230;please help us to remember! \u00a0Thank You for Your mercy and love and grace which has made us alive in Christ! \u00a0May we keep this Truth in our hearts and on our lips so that we can share it with others! \u00a0We 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