{"id":26594,"date":"2015-07-05T00:15:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T04:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26594"},"modified":"2015-07-04T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T16:00:45","slug":"finish-what-he-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/05\/finish-what-he-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Finish What He Started"},"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;\">You take two steps forward and three steps back<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> On a journey of a thousand miles<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And you cry and you pray<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But you know at this pace you never will arrive<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Well I know in your heart you believed from the start<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">God had a purpose He knit you together for<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But life has pulled at the seams<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And you\u2019re unraveling<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And you can\u2019t hold it together anymore<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">But God will, He will finish what He started<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> No thread will be left unwoven<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Nothing will be left undone<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Every plan and every purpose<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That He has will be accomplished<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And God will finish what He\u2019s begun<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And it may feel like 40 long days in a hard driving rain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Or 40 years in a dry desert sand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But when He\u2019s finished we will see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> A beautiful tapestry<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And know that nothing has been wasted in the end<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And we\u2019ll stand as the ones completed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">By the miracle of His love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> We\u2019ll sing of His goodness and sing to His glory<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> As we tell the story of how<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">God has, He has finished what He\u2019s started<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Not a thread will be unwoven<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And nothing will be left undone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Every plan and every purpose<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That He has will be accomplished<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And God will finish what He\u2019s begun<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I know that God will finish what He\u2019s begun<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_KHRvkqFF0E?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Singer\/Songwriter ~ <em>Steven Curtis Chapman<\/em><\/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 style=\"text-align: center;\">And I am certain that God,<br \/>\nWho began the good work within you,<br \/>\nwill continue His work until it is finally finished<br \/>\non the day when Christ Jesus returns.<br \/>\nPhilippians 1:6<\/p>\n<p>How many times do you say to yourself: &#8220;One day I will be a better ____.&#8221; or &#8220;One day I will finish____.&#8221;? \u00a0How hard we can be on ourselves. \u00a0Yet God is so very patient and He sees us, His masterpiece, as beautiful. \u00a0But He is far from finished with us. \u00a0And as the song says, <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>God will finish what He has begun<\/em><\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>There are days that I feel like I have got it all together. \u00a0I have done my quiet time and used kind words with my children and put my husband&#8217;s needs before my own. \u00a0Then there are the days that my words crush spirits and I haven&#8217;t paused long enough to even say,&#8221;Dear God&#8230;&#8221; and the last thing I want to do is praise Him. \u00a0I am just being honest. \u00a0Have you had those days? \u00a0The truth is that we will take steps forward and steps backwards. And it is all okay because Jesus paid the price and so there is grace.<\/p>\n<p>From the time that you entered this world, God has been sewing a beautiful tapestry of your life. \u00a0And all the pieces will one day fit all together and you will see the big picture. You will know the whys and hows of His beautiful plan. \u00a0But until then, we keep trusting and praying and worshipping His Holy name. \u00a0And we keep believing that, one day, He will be finished and He will say&#8230;&#8221;well done.&#8221; \u00a0 It will all be so worth it!<\/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><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Let us pray<\/span><\/strong>: Dear God, You are so loving and merciful. \u00a0You are our Provider and Creator. \u00a0Thank You so much for planning this life out for us. \u00a0Your patience and grace meets us right where we are. \u00a0I love that You don&#8217;t expect us to be perfect ever. Jesus did that for us. \u00a0And until the day that He comes for us, You will still be working in us and through us; we are so grateful! \u00a0Progress, not perfection! \u00a0We love You. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You take two steps forward and three steps back On a journey of a thousand miles And you cry and you pray But you know at this pace you never will arrive Well I know in your heart you believed from the start God had a purpose He knit you together for But life has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"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":[6296,425,589,760,9106,6414,938,6041],"class_list":["post-26594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-finish-what-he-started","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-kim-spring","tag-philippians-16","tag-plan-for-our-lives","tag-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs-2","tag-scripture","tag-steven-curtis-chapman","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-6UW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26594","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26594"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26602,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26594\/revisions\/26602"}],"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=26594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}