{"id":26361,"date":"2015-06-25T00:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26361"},"modified":"2015-06-24T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T19:18:26","slug":"bless-your-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/25\/bless-your-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless Your Name"},"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;\">In prisoners chains, with bleeding stripes<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Paul and Silas prayed that night<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And in their pain, began to sing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Their chains were loosed and they were free<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I bless Your name, I bless Your name<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>I give You honor, give You praise<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>You are the Life, the Truth, the Way<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>I bless Your name, I bless Your name<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Some midnight hour, if you should find<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You\u2019re in a prison in your mind<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Preach out in praise\u2014defy those chains<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And they will fall in Jesus\u2019 name<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You are the Life, the Truth, the Way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are the Life, the Truth, the Way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You are the Life, the Truth, the Way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">We bless Your name, we bless Your name<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8HQ5q0BwPjk?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Selah<\/i><br \/>\nSongwriter \u2013 Elizabeth Goodine<\/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>This song tells of the Apostle Paul and his brother in Christ, Silas, imprisoned in the city of Philippi. \u00a0They had been wrongly accused, held without a proper hearing, beaten and flogged, and then tossed into the innermost prison cell where they were held in stocks and chains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God,<br \/>\nand the prisoners were listening to them; and suddenly there came a great earthquake,<br \/>\nso that the foundations of the prison house were shaken;<br \/>\nand immediately all the doors were opened and everyone\u2019s chains were unfastened.<br \/>\nActs 16:25 and 26<\/p>\n<p>Is that not one of the most incredible accounts of deliverance in the Bible?!!? \u00a0That is true (it is incredible! \u00a0But wait\u2026the Scriptures are <strong>filled<\/strong> with record after record after record telling of God\u2019s provision in miraculous, awesome, \u2018but for the grace of God\u2019 ways! Such as,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moses and the children of Israel being delivered out of the hand of their Egyptian oppressors<\/li>\n<li>Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego stepping out with not even the scent of smoke on their garments after being in the fiery furnace<\/li>\n<li>Daniel climbing out of the lion\u2019s den with not a scratch on him<\/li>\n<li>Joshua and the Israelites circling Jericho for six days and then on the seventh day, repeating their journey 7 times in a row\u2026and then shouting\u2026and the walls of Jericho came tumbling down<\/li>\n<li>Jonah surviving three days of being in the great fish\u2019s belly<\/li>\n<li>Mary finding herself, a yet-to-be-married virgin, pregnant<\/li>\n<li>the Resurrection from the dead, after three days, of our Lord Jesus Christ<\/li>\n<li>And, of course, there are many, many, many more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How about you&#8230;which are some of the wondrous works of God that cause <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">your<\/span> heart<\/em> to sing out in praise as you remember God\u2019s great hand of blessing? \u00a0(Please share them with us in the comment section below!) \u00a0May I encourage you to read through these records and remind yourself how<em> amazing, awesome,<\/em> and<em> wonderful<\/em> our God is\u2014and <strong><em>bless His Name<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He is <em><strong>ELOHIM<\/strong> <\/em>\u2014the God of power and might<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He is <em><strong>JEHOVAH-JIREH<\/strong><\/em> \u2014 the Lord Who will provide<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He is <em><strong>EL-ROI<\/strong> <\/em>\u2014 the Strong One Who sees<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He is <em><strong>EL-SHADDAI<\/strong> <\/em>\u2014 God Almighty<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">I will extol You, my God, O King,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"> And<em> I will bless Your Name<\/em> forever and ever.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"> Every day <em>I will bless You, <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"> <em>And I will praise Your name<\/em> forever and ever.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"> Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"> And His greatness is unsearchable.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"> My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"> And all flesh will<em> bless His holy name<\/em> forever and ever.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"> Psalms 145:1-3, 21<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In prisoners chains, with bleeding stripes Paul and Silas prayed that night And in their pain, began to sing Their chains were loosed and they were free I bless Your name, I bless Your name I give You honor, give You praise You are the Life, the Truth, the Way I bless Your name, I 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