{"id":25970,"date":"2015-06-04T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25970"},"modified":"2015-06-03T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T03:24:16","slug":"cielo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/04\/cielo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cielo"},"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\u2019m walking through the bright white gates<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Breathing in and out Your grace<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">All around me melodies rise<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">That echo with a joy inside<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">So I start to sing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>But I can\u2019t sing loud enough<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I can\u2019t sing loud enough<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>When I\u2019m singing for You, My God<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">With a thunder roll and a brilliant light<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your glory bursts and the heavens shine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Saints and angels stand in awe<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Captured by the beauty of it all<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">So I fall to my knees<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>But I can\u2019t bow low enough<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I can\u2019t bow low enough<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>At the vision of You, my God<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I can\u2019t hold it all inside<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I\u2019m reaching for the One <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Who brought me out of death and into life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Now I can\u2019t lift my hands high enough <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Lift my hands high enough<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>When I\u2019m reaching for You, my God<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z1-HyF_Esf0?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Singer\/Songwriter: Phil Wickham<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u271e ~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The very first time I heard this song, I can truly say that my heart was overwhelmed by this song! \u00a0It literally brought me to my knees&#8230;both physically and in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>This beautiful, captivating song is written to paint the picture of being in God\u2019s Throne Room. \u00a0Phil Wickham shares his heart about this song in the very beginning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hQHGGYiFaYY\" target=\"_blank\">this video clip<\/a>. \u00a0Here is what he said: \u201cThe song is kind of a story about a man, kind of waking up\u2026his first kind of entrance to the heaven and seeing God and being overwhelmed, in the light, in the love, in the mystery and beauty of the whole place, so I wrote the verses as a story and the chorus is kind of a sing-a-long response.\u201d \u00a0{<em>wow<\/em>!}<\/p>\n<p>And each verse DOES depict such a vivid mind-picture, don\u2019t you think? \u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Thunder rolling, brilliant glory bursting, walking through bright white gates, breathing God\u2019s grace, hearing joyous melodies rising about<\/em><\/span>\u2026\u201d But what caught me and drew me in was the idea of it not being possible to <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">sing loud enough<\/span><\/em>\u2026or <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">bow low enough<\/span><\/em>\u2026or <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>lift my hands high enough<\/em><\/span> in worshipful response to the absolute Presence of my God!<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me of this passage in the very beginning of the Book of Revelations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me.<br \/>\nAnd having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;<br \/>\nand in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man,<br \/>\nclothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash.<br \/>\nHis head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow;<br \/>\nand His eyes were like a flame of fire. His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace,<br \/>\nand His voice was like the sound of many waters.<br \/>\nIn His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword;<br \/>\nand His face was like the sun shining in its strength.<br \/>\nWhen I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man.<br \/>\nAnd He placed His right hand on me, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cDo not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living One;<br \/>\nand I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Revelations 1:12-18<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The apostle John was given incredible and amazing and awesome and hard-to-fathom revelations. He was shown the most magnificent and truly breathtaking things in the Kingdom of Heaven. \u00a0Perhaps, do you think that, had he known this song, he might have been singing, \u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I can\u2019t bow low enough, I can\u2019t bow low enough at the vision of You, my God<\/em><\/span>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listening to this song, I desire to be real before my God acknowledging my desperate need for Him. \u00a0I would love to plead with you, friends, to take your music-listening device and go in your \u2018closet.\u2019 \u00a0Play it as loud as you are comfortable with\u2026and worship Your God! \u00a0<em>I pray that you won\u2019t be able to<\/em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> sing loud enough or bow low enough or lift your hands high enough<\/span><em>!<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0But <em>DO\u00a0<\/em>sing and bow and lift your hands because God is as close as your breath\u2026and He SO desires to receive your worship and praise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m walking through the bright white gates Breathing in and out Your grace All around me melodies rise That echo with a joy inside So I start to sing But I can\u2019t sing loud enough I can\u2019t sing loud enough When I\u2019m singing for You, My God With a thunder roll and a brilliant light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[6484,235,1287,425,5934,4932,6483],"class_list":["post-25970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-cielo","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-phil-wickham","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-revelations-112-18","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-cielo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25970","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26135,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25970\/revisions\/26135"}],"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=25970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}