{"id":26722,"date":"2015-07-13T00:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T04:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26722"},"modified":"2015-07-13T01:10:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T05:10:58","slug":"26722","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/13\/26722\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Inside Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<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><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">A thousand times I\u2019ve failed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Still Your mercy remains<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And should I stumble again<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Still I\u2019m caught in Your grace<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your will above all else, my purpose remains<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">The art of losing myself in bringing You praise<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>My heart and my soul, I give You control<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>Consume me from the inside out, Lord<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>Let justice and praise, become my embrace<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>To love You from the inside out<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">From the inside out, O my soul cries out<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And the cry of my heart is to bring You praise<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> From the inside out, O my soul cries out<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> From the inside out, O my soul cries out<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> From the inside out, O my soul cries out<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SDP8tQSR6uQ?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Singer-Songwriter:<em> Joel Houston<\/em> ~ along with Hillsong United<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My Bible study lesson today was titled \u201c<em>Inside Out<\/em>\u201d by Beth Moore from her study, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Children of the Day<\/span>. \u00a0At first I didn\u2019t relate the title to this song. \u00a0The lesson is based on 1 Thessalonians 4:9 AMP:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But concerning brotherly love [for all other Christians],<br \/>\nyou have no need to have anyone write you,<br \/>\nfor you yourselves have been [personally] taught by God to love one another.<\/p>\n<p>Did you catch that last phrase, \u201c\u2026<em>personally taught by Go<\/em>d\u2026\u201d? \u00a0The Thessalonians didn\u2019t need anyone to instruct them on how to love other Christians for they had been PERSONALLY TAUGHT BY GOD! \u00a0This thought blew my mind. \u00a0It totally captivated my attention. \u00a0<em>The Thessalonians had learned to love <span style=\"color: #800080;\">FROM THE INSIDE OUT<\/span>! \u00a0They learned it <strong>straight from God<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And you know what? \u00a0<strong>We can, too! <\/strong>\u00a0When we made our decision to surrender to Jesus and follow Him, we literally received the Holy Spirit into our beings. \u00a0Look at John 14:26 HCSB:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit<br \/>\n\u2014the Father will send Him in My name\u2014<br \/>\nwill teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit of God resides in us and will teach us all things! \u00a0Our learning does not have to be from the outside in. \u00a0Beth Moore puts it this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGod\u2019s Spirit bypasses all formal routes of the learning curve and the lesson comes straight from Him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Wow&#8230;if<strong> that<\/strong> doesn\u2019t excite you, I\u2019m not sure <strong><em>any<\/em><\/strong>thing will!)<\/p>\n<p>Then this song came to mind and I looked at it in a whole new light. \u00a0What if we truly gave God control\u2014complete control? \u00a0What if we allowed Him to teach us, to \u201c<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">consume me from the inside out<\/span><\/em>\u201d instead of being stuck in our preconceived ideas? \u00a0What if we truly learned to love as the Thessalonians did\u2026\u201d<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">from the inside out<\/span><\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Father God, Thank You so very much for placing Your Spirit within us. \u00a0Open us to His teachings. \u00a0Teach us, O God, for we cannot learn as much on our own. \u00a0My soul cries out to You in praise. \u00a0Teach me, O God, from the inside out. \u00a0In Your Holy name, we pray, Amen \u2013 so be it!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thousand times I\u2019ve failed Still Your mercy remains And should I stumble again Still I\u2019m caught in Your grace Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame Your will above all else, my purpose remains The art of losing myself in bringing You praise My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"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":[6949,6950,5889,1287,425,6954,6952,6955,3639,6951,6953,4932],"class_list":["post-26722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-thessalonians-49","tag-beth-moore-children-of-the-day","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-hillson-united","tag-holy-spirit-teaches-us-all-things","tag-joel-houston","tag-john-1426","tag-learn-from-the-inside-out","tag-personally-taught-by-god","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","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-26722","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26722","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26722"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26730,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26722\/revisions\/26730"}],"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=26722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}