{"id":25668,"date":"2015-05-04T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T04:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25668"},"modified":"2015-05-03T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T00:39:07","slug":"who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/04\/who-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Who 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;\">Another voice, another choice<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To listen to words somebody said<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Another day, I replay<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> One too many doubts inside my head<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Am I strong&#8230;beautiful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Am I good enough<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Do I belong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> After all that I&#8217;ve said and done<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Is it real when I feel<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I don&#8217;t measure up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Am I loved<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I&#8217;m running to the One who knows me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>Who made every part of me in His hands<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>I&#8217;m holding to the One who holds me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>\u2018Cause I know whose I am, I know who I am<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>I am sure I am Yours<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Turning down, tuning out<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Every single word<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That caused me pain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Unashamed, and unafraid<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u2018Cause I believe You mean it when You say<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I am strong&#8230;beautiful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am good enough<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I belong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> After all<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u2018Cause of what You&#8217;ve done<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This is real what I feel<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> No one made it up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am loved<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I am sure I am Yours<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I know who I am<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am sure I am Yours<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Fearfully, wonderfully, perfectly<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You have made me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m running to the One who knows me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m holding to the One who holds me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6oZuNkT7_UM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 Blanca<br \/>\nWritten by Blanca Callahan \/ Seth Mosley \/ Mia Fieldes<\/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: center;\">For it was You who created my inward parts;<br \/>\nYou knit me together in my mother\u2019s womb.<br \/>\nI will praise You because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.<br \/>\nYour works are wonderful, and I know this very well.<br \/>\nPsalms 139:13-14 HCSB<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;Another voice, another choice<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To listen to words somebody said<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Another day, I replay<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> One too many doubts inside my head<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Am I strong&#8230;beautiful<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Am I good enough<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Do I belong<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> After all that I&#8217;ve said and done<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Is it real<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When I feel\u00a0I don&#8217;t measure up<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Am I loved?&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely I am not the <strong>only<\/strong> one that can relate to these words! \u00a0Thoughts and questions just like these have played over and over in my head at least a thousand times (sometimes in just one day) but as I was listening to this song on the radio, the light bulb went on! \u00a0<em>I have to know <strong>WHOSE<\/strong> I am before I will really understand <strong>WHO<\/strong> I am.<\/em> Duh! \u00a0{Mental head slap here}<\/p>\n<p>As I looked through the many lists of Scriptures about \u2018<em><strong>who<\/strong> I am<\/em>\u2019, I began to see \u2018<em><strong>Whose<\/strong> I am<\/em>\u2019:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.<br \/>\nGalatians 3:26 NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,<br \/>\na holy nation, His own special people&#8230;<br \/>\n1 Peter 2:9 NKJV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;For our citizenship is in heaven&#8230;<br \/>\nPhilippians 3:20a HCSB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved&#8230;<br \/>\nColossians 3:12a NASB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him]<br \/>\n1 John 4:4a AMP<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I am a child of God!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I am His!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He chose me.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He created me.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And He holds me close.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John 10:28b-29 states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;No one will snatch them out of My hand.<br \/>\nMy Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all;<br \/>\nand no one is able to snatch them out of the Father&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<p>Since I belong to Christ, that means:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don\u2019t belong to darkness and night.<br \/>\n1 Thessalonians 5:5 NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nWho lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God?<br \/>\n1 Corinthians 6:19 AMP\/(1 Corinthians 3:16)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now you are the body of Christ and individual members of it.<br \/>\n1 Corinthians 12:27 HCSB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;But I have called you friends&#8230;<br \/>\nJohn 15:15<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For we are God\u2019s masterpiece.<br \/>\nEphesians 2:10a NLT<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Did you get that? \u00a0We are God&#8217;s masterpiece!<\/h4>\n<p>A masterpiece is beautiful. \u00a0It is lovely. \u00a0It is treasured. \u00a0It is of immeasurable worth! \u00a0So that means God sees us as beautiful, lovely, treasured, and of immeasurable worth!<\/p>\n<p>Knowing <em><strong>Whose<\/strong> I am<\/em> gives me a sense of identity, of self confidence.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We are strong, we are good enough, we are loved! <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">{And I really need to remember that!}<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another voice, another choice To listen to words somebody said Another day, I replay One too many doubts inside my head Am I strong&#8230;beautiful Am I good enough Do I belong After all that I&#8217;ve said and done Is it real when I feel I don&#8217;t measure up Am I loved I&#8217;m running to the 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