{"id":26909,"date":"2015-07-26T00:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T04:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26909"},"modified":"2015-07-25T23:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T03:44:31","slug":"it-is-well-with-my-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/26\/it-is-well-with-my-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Well With My Soul"},"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;\">When peace like a river attendeth my way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When sorrows like sea billows roll<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Whatever my lot You have taught me to say<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It is well, it is well with my soul<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Though the devil will ruin, though trials may come<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let this blessed assurance control<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That Christ has regarded my helpless estate<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And He shed His own blood for my soul<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>It is well, with my soul<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> It is well, it is well with my soul<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>It is well, with my soul<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>It is well, it is well with my soul<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> My sin, not in part, but the whole<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh my soul<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And, Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And the clouds be rolled back as a scroll<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Even so, it is well with my soul\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tnLOBwRbg_M?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Jars of Clay<br \/>\n<\/em>Original writers: Horatio Spafford, Phillip Bliss<em><br \/>\n<\/em>This version: Chris Rice, Stephen Mason, Matt Odmark, Jim Cooper, Dan Haseltine, Travis Cottrell, James Brickman, Charlie Lowell<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.<br \/>\nPsalm 116:7<\/p>\n<p>I can say that this is one of those hymns that the Holy Spirit brings to mind on many occasions and especially on the really hard days. \u00a0The Lord speaks to us through music, I know for sure. \u00a0Some days (even before the first cup of coffee) are already setting me up for failure. \u00a0I think in my head that there are words that I shouldn&#8217;t have said yesterday and I went to bed without an &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221;&#8230;and there will be words today that I will wish I could take back. \u00a0There are cluttered cabinets that need to be cleaned out, kind of like the cluttered \u00a0mind that needs to hear Jesus. \u00a0I am a frustrated perfectionist and I often compare my lack to others&#8217; abundance. \u00a0But the Holy Spirit whispers early&#8230;in the form of a hymn&#8230;&#8217;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>it is well with my soul<\/em><\/span>&#8216;. \u00a0And it is&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1800&#8217;s, a man named Horatio Spafford had lived through what he thought were the hardest trials of his life&#8212;his only son died and, shortly after, a horrible fire consumed all he had materially. \u00a0He recovered only to hit bottom two years later. \u00a0He put his wife and four daughters on a ship to England and he was to meet them soon. \u00a0Not long after they took off, the ship ran into another ship and the children sunk to the bottom of the ocean. \u00a0He received a telegram four days after from his wife that said, &#8220;Saved alone.&#8221; \u00a0He got on a ship to meet her and, as he went over the location where his daughters had drowned, these words came to his mind: &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>When sorrows like sea billows roll<\/em><\/span>&#8230;&#8221; and there was birthed one of the greatest hymns of all times.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he lost his children (something I cannot even imagine). \u00a0But in all that tragedy, his God was enough. \u00a0The fact that Jesus loved him was all he needed to make it through. \u00a0He knew that Jesus was coming again to take him and his wife to meet his girls. \u00a0So here on earth, he would choose to live his days in praise.<\/p>\n<p>What about you today? \u00a0Are you experiencing loss? \u00a0It may not be as severe as the loss of a child (or four children) but it may hurt still. \u00a0I pray today that you and I are able to look at all the chaos around us and still have peace and be able to say without hesitation that &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>It is well with my soul<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Let us pray<\/em><\/span>: Dear Lord, You are awesome and mighty, You bring me to my knees in worship and praise! \u00a0You are Holy and You are worthy of all that we are and all that we have and we love You. \u00a0Thank You for the peace that comes from just knowing You and knowing that Jesus took away all our sins so that we are looked at as pure in Your eyes. \u00a0Oh Lord, I pray for all the broken hearts today. \u00a0I pray that You can mend them and put a new song in each one; one that says &#8220;It is well with my soul&#8221;&#8230;no matter what. \u00a0Your love is enough. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When peace like a river attendeth my way When sorrows like sea billows roll Whatever my lot You have taught me to say It is well, it is well with my soul Though the devil will ruin, though trials may come Let this blessed assurance control That Christ has regarded my helpless estate And He [&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":[9197,425,9198,5876,9075,589,9199,4932,938,1081],"class_list":["post-26909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-it-is-well-with-my-soul","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-he-is-enough","tag-horatio-spafford","tag-jars-of-clay","tag-kim-spring","tag-psalm-1167","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-scripture","tag-trials","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-701","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909","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=26909"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26930,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions\/26930"}],"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=26909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}