{"id":26623,"date":"2015-07-08T00:15:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T04:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26623"},"modified":"2015-07-07T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:23:47","slug":"26623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/08\/26623\/","title":{"rendered":"A Living Prayer"},"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 this world I walk alone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> With no place to call my home<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But there\u2019s one who holds my hand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Through rugged roads, through barren lands<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The way is dark, the road is steep<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But He\u2019s become my eyes to see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The strength to climb, my griefs to bear<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The Savior lives inside me there<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>In Your love I find release<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>A haven from my unbelief<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>Take my life and let me be<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>A living prayer, my God, to Thee<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In these trials of life I find<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Another Voice inside my mind<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He comforts me and bids me live<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Inside the love the Father gives<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Take my life and let me be a living prayer, my God, to Thee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZuDbrIp-g8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Alison Krauss and Union Station<\/em><br \/>\nwritten by Ron Block<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0\u00a0* \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271e \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This beautiful bluegrass ballad is an affirmation&#8230;a declaration&#8230;a commitment. \u00a0It is the heart-cry of the songwriter to his God. \u00a0I love that he wrote, \u2018<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>take my life and let me be a living prayer\u2026<\/em><\/span>\u2019 . \u00a0He recognized that, even though he had so much in his heart he wanted to commit to God Almighty, he still needed God\u2019s involvement. \u00a0He knew he needed God.<\/p>\n<p>The writers of the Psalms often communicated very similar thoughts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.<br \/>\nGive attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God,<br \/>\nfor to You do I pray.<br \/>\nO Lord, in the morning You hear my voice;<br \/>\nin the morning I prepare a sacrifice for You and watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever sing for joy,<br \/>\nAnd spread your protection over them,<br \/>\nthat those who love Your name may exult in You.<br \/>\nFor You bless the righteous, O Lord;<br \/>\nYou cover him with favor as with a shield.<br \/>\nPsalms 5:1-3, 11 and 12 ESV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"en-ESV-16302\" class=\"text Ps-143-8\">Let me hear in the morning of Your steadfast love,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-143-8\">for in You I trust.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Ps-143-8\">Make me know the way I should go,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"text Ps-143-8\">for to You I lift up my soul.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nPsalm 143:8<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text Ps-16-1\">Keep <i>and<\/i> protect me, O God, for in You I have found refuge,<br \/>\nand in You do I put my trust and hide myself.<br \/>\n<\/span>I say to the Lord, You are my Lord;<br \/>\nI have no good beside or beyond You.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"en-AMP-14101\" class=\"text Ps-16-8\">I have set the Lord continually before me;<br \/>\nbecause He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.<br \/>\n<\/span>Therefore my heart is glad and my glory [my inner self] rejoices;<br \/>\nmy body too shall rest <i>and<\/i> confidently dwell in safety&#8230;<br \/>\nPsalms 16:1-2, 8-9<\/p>\n<p>And as such it is with us, too. We cry out to our heavenly Father with our own words of commitment and declaration. Voicing the affirmation of our faith in Him\u2026our trust and belief that He is faithful\u2026our acknowledgment of our great need for our El Shaddai.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the very end of the video clip above, is a quote from C. S. Lewis about prayer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">I pray because I can\u2019t help myself.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">I pray because I\u2019m helpless.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">I pray because the need flows out of me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0all the time, waking and sleeping.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">It doesn\u2019t change God, it changes me.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Take my life and let me be a living prayer, my God, to Thee!<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this world I walk alone With no place to call my home But there\u2019s one who holds my hand Through rugged roads, through barren lands The way is dark, the road is steep But He\u2019s become my eyes to see The strength to climb, my griefs to bear The Savior lives inside me there [&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":[5136,5137,235,4915,1287,425,7693,9112,9113,5135,6302,4932,5528,7187],"class_list":["post-26623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-a-living-prayer","tag-alison-krauss","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-commitment-to-god","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-psalm-1438","tag-psalms-161-2","tag-psalms-168-9","tag-psalms-51-3","tag-psalms-511-12","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-ron-block","tag-union-station","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-26623","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26623","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=26623"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26648,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26623\/revisions\/26648"}],"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=26623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}