{"id":25766,"date":"2015-05-11T00:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T04:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25766"},"modified":"2015-05-10T23:16:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T03:16:18","slug":"touch-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/11\/touch-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch The Sky"},"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;\">What fortune lies beyond the stars<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Those dazzling heights too vast to climb<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I got so high to fall so far<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But I found Heaven as love swept low<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">My heart beating, my soul breathing<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">I found my life when I laid it down<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Upward falling, spirit soaring<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">I touch the sky when my knees hit the ground<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">What treasure waits within Your scars<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">This gift of freedom gold can&#8217;t buy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I bought the world and sold my heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">You traded Heaven to have me again<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Find me here at Your feet again<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Everything I am, reaching out in surrender<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Come sweep me up in Your love again<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">And my soul will dance<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">On the wings of forever<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1RQciil7B0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hillsong United<br \/>\nWritten by Joel Houston, Dylan Thomas, Michael Guy Chislett<\/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;\">Then I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God.<br \/>\nEzra 9:5 HCSB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let them take hold of My strength and make complete surrender to My protection,<br \/>\nthat they may make peace with Me!<br \/>\nYes, let them make peace with Me!<br \/>\nIsaiah 27:5 AMP<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;God said, &#8216;No, it doesn&#8217;t matter who you are,&#8217; and because of that, we don&#8217;t have to try and elevate ourselves in order to find God. We find God from a position of surrender.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2013 Joel Houston<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/hillsong-united-shares-story-behind-new-single-touch-the-sky-album-empires-on-pre-sale-136472\/#TQTS8dIZFDqzCItd.99\" target=\"_blank\">Read more <em>here.<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I got so high to fall so far\u2026<br \/>\nI bought the world and sold my heart<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ever wonder why we let it get to this point before we surrender to God\u2019s will? \u00a0Why do we insist on trying to do it on our own and then run to God as a last resort? \u00a0Why does it take abject failure to bring us to our knees? \u00a0As Christians, we know the rewards of turning our lives over to God. \u00a0So why do we keep taking it back again? \u00a0Our attitudes change and our focus shifts from the wonders of heaven to the realities of this world. \u00a0We seek happiness and meaning through earthly desires, instead of falling at the feet of Jesus. \u00a0What we need to remember is found in Galatians 2:20 AMP:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His Crucifixion];<br \/>\nit is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me;<br \/>\nand the life I now live in the body I live by faith in<br \/>\n(by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God,<br \/>\nWho loved me and gave Himself up for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Christ loved us enough to die for us so we could live by faith rather than chasing earthly desires and passions. \u00a0Galatians 5:24 NLT tells us that \u201cThose who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to His Cross and crucified them there.\u201d True meaning and happiness can only be found in our total surrender to Him. \u00a0We can find new life only when we fall at the foot of the cross in complete surrender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">My heart beating, my soul breathing<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I found my life when I laid it down<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Upward falling, spirit soaring<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I touch the sky when my knees hit the ground<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Find me here at Your feet again<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Everything I am, reaching out in surrender<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Come sweep me up in Your love again<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And my soul will dance<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">On the wings of forever<\/span><\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is my favorite part of the song. \u00a0When we hit our knees and spread our hands to Yahweh, we find peace and protection in Him. Then we can<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> touch the sky<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>our souls can dance on the wings of forever.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What fortune lies beyond the stars Those dazzling heights too vast to climb I got so high to fall so far But I found Heaven as love swept low My heart beating, my soul breathing I found my life when I laid it down Upward falling, spirit soaring I touch the sky when my knees [&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":[8847,5889,8849,2440,8845,1287,425,5472,8848,6955,4932,1026,8846],"class_list":["post-25766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-at-the-foot-of-the-cross","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-ezra-95","tag-galatians-220","tag-galatians-524","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-hillsong-united","tag-isaiah-275","tag-joel-houston","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-surrender","tag-touch-the-sky","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-6HA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766","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=25766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25771,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766\/revisions\/25771"}],"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=25766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}