{"id":25874,"date":"2015-06-03T00:15:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25874"},"modified":"2015-06-02T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T21:00:43","slug":"all-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/03\/all-things\/","title":{"rendered":"All Things"},"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><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I met a woman down the street at the park where my kids play<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> She was living underneath the trees because it&#8217;s pretty hard to find a job these days<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> We talked about the ups and downs of her life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> As the tears filled her eyes she smiled and said something I will never forget<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>That in all things, all things<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Give thanks to the One<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Who meets our need before we know we even need it<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Because all things are all the things I just can&#8217;t handle<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> So I hand it to the One who takes care of all things<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Tweet tweet tweet way up high in the sky fly the little birds<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (Without a care in the world)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And how much more does our Father provide for the ones He loves<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And I&#8217;m ashamed how I complain everyday about things that don&#8217;t matter anyway<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And it makes me think of the woman down the street who said<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In all things, all things<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Give thanks to the One<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Who meets our need before we know we even need it<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Because all things are all the things I just can&#8217;t handle<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So I hand it to the One who takes care of all things<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">To the scared soldier there on the front lines<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To the cancer patient running out of time<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To the father afraid he&#8217;s gonna lose it all<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To the single mom who doesn&#8217;t even know where to start<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To the ones who think they&#8217;re all out of hope<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To the ones who know the sting of death and feel all alone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Cast your cares for He cares for us<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And there&#8217;s nothing in this life that&#8217;s bigger<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Bigger than His love<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I have a reason to, in all things, all things<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Give thanks to the One<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Who meets our need before we know we even need it<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Because all things are all the things I just can&#8217;t handle<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So I hand it to the One who takes care of all things<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">All things, all things<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I know You&#8217;re taking care of all things, all things<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m gonna trust You<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All Things - Citizen Way\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3SQMduHN9qg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Citizen Way<br \/>\nWritten by Ben Calhoun<\/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;\">And we know that <b>in<\/b> <b>all<\/b> <b>things<\/b><br \/>\nGod works for the good of those who love Him,<br \/>\nwho have been called according to His purpose.<br \/>\nRomans 8:28<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What\u00a0a great promise from God! \u00a0Paul is writing to the believers in the Roman church, teaching them, counseling them, growing them in God&#8217;s wonderful ways. \u00a0We need to be reminded how much God gave for us. \u00a0How much He sacrificed\u00a0for us to be grafted into His family, to serve Him in His command to share the good news of His great love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then in 2 Corinthians 9:8 we read this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And God is able to bless you abundantly,<br \/>\nso that <b>in<\/b> <b>all<\/b> <b>things<\/b> at <b>all<\/b> times,<br \/>\nhaving <b>all<\/b> that you need,<br \/>\nyou will abound <b>in<\/b> every good work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How cool is that? \u00a0&#8220;<em>All that you need<\/em>&#8220;, God will bless us with it as long as we strive to do good work for the Kingdom of God. \u00a0We had some folks over to the house this past weekend. \u00a0One of the people was our youth pastor. \u00a0As my husband was introducing the various people, the pastor began to ask about a friend&#8217;s salvation status. (Do they believe, do they go to church, how have you done with sharing your beliefs&#8230;.) \u00a0I think we passed with the &#8216;sharing&#8217; part, but our friend has not chosen to return to church. \u00a0Sometimes all we are to do is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">plant<\/span> the seed of Truth. \u00a0Hopefully someone else will come along and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">water<\/span> the &#8216;seed&#8217; and it will mature and become the follower God has created them to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Who of us has planted seeds, watered those seeds, and then helped it ripen? \u00a0Each one of us is given gifts to further the Kingdom. \u00a0<em>Have you used yours lately?<\/em> \u00a0If we do not exercise our gift, we will lose it. \u00a0God will continue to bless us with these gifts we exercise on a regular basis or He will take it and give to someone else. \u00a0I pray we will use our gifts and will ask for God to restore to us the ones we have not used in a long while. \u00a0<em>How about you?<\/em><\/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;\">Father, thank You for Your sacrifice You gave us many years ago through Your son, Jesus. \u00a0Help us to be brave and seek Your gifts and use the ones You have given us. \u00a0Give us the courage to seek Your will and not our own. \u00a0Help us to not seek approval of men, but Your approval. \u00a0Forgive us as we fail, give us the strength to succeed. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name we pray, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a woman down the street at the park where my kids play She was living underneath the trees because it&#8217;s pretty hard to find a job these days We talked about the ups and downs of her life As the tears filled her eyes she smiled and said something I will never forget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[8383,8889,8888,1287,425,8962,4932,914,1071],"class_list":["post-25874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-2-corinthians-98","tag-all-things","tag-citizen-way","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-god-gives-gifts","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-romans-828","tag-tina-marin","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-6Jk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25874","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25874"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26130,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25874\/revisions\/26130"}],"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=25874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}