{"id":25607,"date":"2015-05-01T00:15:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25607"},"modified":"2015-04-30T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:26:45","slug":"give-me-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/01\/give-me-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Faith"},"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 wanna feel the strength David felt<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> With a rag and a rock, knowing that he couldn&#8217;t fail<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And I wanna trust that would lead me up a hill<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To give my only son, if I knew it was Your will<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I want a faith like that, God give me faith like that<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">To speak Your word and mountains move<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To reach beyond all I can do<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u2018Cause You&#8217;re doing things I cannot see,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So I&#8217;m gonna trust You and believe<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are all I need, give me faith<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When my heart&#8217;s about to break<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Don&#8217;t know how much I can take<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And my soul is like a ship, overtaken by the waves<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I need the courage to walk on the water and be strong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Like Peter in the storm until I fall into Your arms<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I want a faith like that, God give me faith like that<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I believe You&#8217;re strong enough to save<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I believe every promise You&#8217;ve made<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And when I just don&#8217;t understand,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You hold my world inside Your hands<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ll speak Your word and mountains move<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;ll reach beyond all I can do<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u2018Cause You&#8217;re doing things I cannot see,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So I&#8217;m gonna trust You and believe<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are all I need, give me faith<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Apjjd9wBDo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Royal Tailor<br \/>\nwritten by: Tauren Wells, Blake Hubbard, David Cox, Jarrod Ingram<\/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>I play music in my car almost constantly. And while most of my selections create a sense of peace and calm in the mornings with an uplifting beat as we began our journey, there are times when some songs do more than this.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months faith has been at the center of my thoughts and prayers. \u00a0I have cried to God asking Him to give me strength, asking that He open my eyes to situations that will require me to walk in faith. \u00a0I read stories of heroes and heroines of the Bible walking in their faith&#8230;and great things happening! \u00a0But here I was\u2014I felt faithless, helpless. \u00a0I didn\u2019t know how to be like David, or like Peter. \u00a0I felt as if I did not have even an ounce of faith to stand on. \u00a0It was a scary place filled with what feels like very little hope.<\/p>\n<p>I was talking to my husband and he reminded me that all God asks for is faith the size of a mustard seed. \u00a0I went and googled what a mustard seed looked like; and realized that a mustard seed was truly all I had. \u00a0I realized that I could be like David and tackle the Goliaths of my own life, and I could walk up the mountains in my life, move them, making the sacrifices necessary, all because I <em><strong>did<\/strong> have faith<\/em> like that little mustard seed. \u00a0And slowly (and not without days of questioning) I realized that God was all I needed. \u00a0Some days my faith was shown by simply saying the name of Jesus when I did not know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>All this week I have been seeking direction in finding a song to share in this blog. I wanted something different\u2014something that spoke not only to my own heart but one that would speak to the heart of the women who read these words. \u00a0While driving I heard this song but kept missing the title. \u00a0Finally I caught it and pulled up the lyrics. \u00a0These words mirrored what I have been feeling, what I have been praying about. \u00a0They shared my fears, concerns, and shortcomings, but they also gave me hope. \u00a0The last nine lines of the song express what I want to and can tell myself daily. \u00a0These are truths I am making an intentional choice to stand on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I believe You&#8217;re strong enough to save<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> I believe every promise You&#8217;ve made<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> And when I just don&#8217;t understand,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> You hold my world inside Your hands<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I&#8217;ll speak Your word and mountains move<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> I&#8217;ll reach beyond all I can do<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> \u2018Cause You&#8217;re doing things I cannot see,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> So I&#8217;m gonna trust You and believe<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> You are all I need, give me faith<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">These words are my mustard seed.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He replied, &#8220;Because you have so little faith.<br \/>\nTruly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed,<br \/>\nyou can say to this mountain,<br \/>\n&#8216;Move from here to there,&#8217; and it will move.<br \/>\nNothing will be impossible for you.&#8221;<br \/>\nMatthew 17:20<\/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>Dear Heavenly Father,<br \/>\nThank You that mustard seed! \u00a0You can do great things with something so small&#8230;this fact amazes me daily. \u00a0Forgive myself and others who have allowed our fears, our shortcomings, our life in general to hide the truths in the words of this song. \u00a0You <em>are<\/em> enough, and because <strong><em>You are enough<\/em><\/strong>, we are enough. \u00a0Because You stand by Your promises, we can move mountains, whatever they may be. \u00a0You are all we need Lord! \u00a0You and our mustard seeds. \u00a0In Jesus Christ\u2019s name we pray. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanna feel the strength David felt With a rag and a rock, knowing that he couldn&#8217;t fail And I wanna trust that would lead me up a hill To give my only son, if I knew it was Your will I want a faith like that, God give me faith like that To speak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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":[8807,1287,425,8808,1493,4932,8806,1075],"class_list":["post-25607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-faith-like-a-mustard-seed","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-god-is-enough","tag-matthew-1720","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-royal-tailor","tag-tonya-ellison","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-6F1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25613,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607\/revisions\/25613"}],"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=25607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}