{"id":26336,"date":"2015-06-17T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T04:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26336"},"modified":"2015-06-16T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T20:04:09","slug":"your-love-is-amazing-hallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/17\/your-love-is-amazing-hallelujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Love Is Amazing (HalleluJAH)"},"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;\">Your love is amazing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Steady and unchanging<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your love is a mountain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Firm beneath my feet<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your love is a mystery<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">How You gently lift me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">When I am surrounded<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your love carries me<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Your love makes me sing<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Your love makes me sing<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your love is surprising<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I can feel it rising<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">All the joy that\u2019s growing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Deep inside of me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And every time I see You<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">All Your goodness shines through<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And I can feel this God-song <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Rising up in me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nVxCkP3AT_k?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Maranatha Singers<\/em><br \/>\nSongwriters: Brenton Brown and Brian Doerksen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you think this song is actually a prayer\u2014a happy, joyous proclamation of God\u2019s love? \u00a0 How much our God must thoroughly enjoy hearing His precious possession\u2014us!\u2014sing out, \u00a0 \u266c \u266a \u266c <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>HalleluJAH! \u00a0Your love makes me sing<\/em><\/span>!\u00a0 \u266c \u266a \u266c<\/p>\n<p>And what incredible, awesome company we are in when we do sing out our \u2018halleluJAH!\u2019 \u00a0In chapter 19 of the Book of Revelations, four separate times praises to God using the phrase \u2018halleluJAH!\u2019 is recorded. \u00a0Three times by \u2018a great multitude\u2019, and once by the \u2018twenty-four elders and the four living creatures\u2019 (who surround the Throne). \u00a0WOW! \u00a0This is company I want to be in; you, too?!!!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>verse 1<br \/>\nAfter these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven,\u00a0saying, \u201cHallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God;<\/li>\n<li>verse 3<br \/>\nAnd a second time they said, \u201cHallelujah! Her smoke rises up forever and ever.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>verse 4<br \/>\nAnd the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, \u201cAmen. Hallelujah!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>verse 6<br \/>\nThen I heard something like the voice of a great multitude\u00a0and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying,\u00a0\u201cHallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This record in the Book of Revelations and a few in the Psalms are the only records that tell us of praise being given using the phrase\u00a0\u2018HalleluJAH!\u2019\u00a0 In doing a study on it, I found that it is used approximately \u00a022 times in the Psalms. \u00a0Here are a few examples\u2026.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For great is His gracious love toward us and the LORD\u2019s faithfulness is eternal.<br \/>\nHallelujah!<br \/>\n117:2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD because He is good,<br \/>\nbecause His mercy endures forever.<br \/>\n106:1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let everything that breathes praise the Lord. Hallelujah!<br \/>\n150:6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hallelujah!<br \/>\nHow good it is to sing to our God for praise is pleasant and lovely.<br \/>\n147:1<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are so very many things we have been blessed with for which we should give praise to our great God!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mercy<\/li>\n<li>grace<\/li>\n<li>salvation<\/li>\n<li>eternal life<\/li>\n<li>fellowship w\/believers<\/li>\n<li>sanctification<\/li>\n<li>peace<\/li>\n<li>His Word<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But one of the greatest things that God does for us and gives us is <strong><em>His love<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0As the songwriters expressed to Him,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>Your love<\/strong> is amazing\u2026steady and unchanging;<br \/>\n<strong>Your love<\/strong> is a mountain firm beneath my feet;<br \/>\n<strong>Your love<\/strong> is a mystery\u2014how You gently lift me when I am surrounded\u2014<br \/>\n<strong>Your love<\/strong> carries me; <strong>Your love<\/strong> is surprising\u2026<\/em><\/span>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And truly, it is!!! \u00a0Below are some of the many verses in the Scriptures which tell us about our God\u2019s love for us\u2026for all mankind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who shall ever separate us from Christ\u2019s love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation?<br \/>\nOr calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?<br \/>\nEven as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long;<br \/>\nWe are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter.<br \/>\nYet amid all these things we are more than conquerors<br \/>\nand gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.<br \/>\nFor I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels<br \/>\nnor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers,<br \/>\nNor height nor depth, nor anything else in all Creation<br \/>\nwill be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<br \/>\nRomans 8:35-39<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But God demonstrates His own love for us in this:<br \/>\nWhile we were still sinners, Christ died for us.<br \/>\nRomans 5:8<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,<br \/>\nthat whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.<br \/>\nJohn 3:16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is how God showed His love among us:<br \/>\nHe sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.<br \/>\nThis is love: not that we loved God,<br \/>\nbut that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.<br \/>\n1 John 4:9 and 10<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in His love.<br \/>\nGod is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.<br \/>\nVerse 16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Because Your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise You.<br \/>\nPsalm 63:3<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His love is&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>steadfast<br \/>\nimmeasureable<br \/>\nunconditional<br \/>\nimmoveable<br \/>\nunchanging<br \/>\namazing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Doesn&#8217;t it make you want to sing?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0 * \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black', 'Avant Garde';\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dear Father, we thank You for Your love for us and the incredible ways You show it<\/span>! <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0It is&#8212;You are!&#8212;amazing! HalleluJAH! We thank You and praise You&#8230;in Jesus&#8217; name. 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