{"id":27024,"date":"2015-08-02T00:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T04:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27024"},"modified":"2015-08-01T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T18:58:21","slug":"captivate-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/02\/captivate-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Captivate Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><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;\">Your face is beautiful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And Your eyes are like the stars<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your gentle hands have healing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> There inside the scars<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your loving arms they draw me near<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And Your smile it brings me peace<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Draw me closer oh, my Lord<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Draw me closer, Lord, to Thee<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And captivate us, Lord Jesus, set our eyes on You<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Devastate us with Your presence falling down<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And rushing River draw us nearer<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Holy Fountain, consume us with You<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Captivate us, Lord Jesus, with You<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your voice is powerful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And Your words are radiant bright<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In Your breath and shadow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I will come close and abide<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You whisper love and life divine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And Your fellowship is free<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Draw us closer, oh my Lord<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Draw me closer, Lord, to Thee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And let ev&#8217;rything be lost in the shadows<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Of the light of Your face<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And let ev&#8217;ry chain be broken from me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> As I&#8217;m bound in Your grace<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> For Your yoke is easy, Your burden is light<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;re full of wisdom pow&#8217;r and might<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And ev&#8217;ry eye will see You<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Captivate us, \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lord Jesus, w<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">ith You<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Captivate us<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZ5s09s4-sc?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Watermark<\/i><br \/>\nWriter(s): Charlie Hall, Christy Nockels, Nathan Nockels<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride;<br \/>\nYou have captivated my heart with one glance of Your eyes,<br \/>\nwith one jewel of your necklace.<br \/>\nSong of Solomon 4:9<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of anything more awesome than to be <span style=\"color: #800080;\">captivated<\/span> by Jesus? I looked up the definition of the word <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>captivate<\/em><\/span>\u00a0and this is what it said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">&#8230;<em>to attract and hold the attention of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant<\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine that your whole life is centered around Jesus and you are <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>captivated<\/em> <\/span>by Him. \u00a0The Son of God <em>really is<\/em> completely in love with you. \u00a0So, as you listen to this beautiful song today, I hope that you will close your eyes and just sing this as a prayer to Him. \u00a0He is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so worthy<\/em><\/span> of such a praise song from you&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tell Him that His face is beautiful; just picture His eyes focused on you, just you.<\/p>\n<p>Then look at His hands. See the scars? And those nails that were driven into His hands and they drove out the sins of us, His daughters and sons. And in those scars, there is so much healing. Remember the woman that just touched His garment? Oh the power that He holds. Lay all your afflictions down at His feet and allow Him to begin to heal you.<\/p>\n<p>Now let His arms fold you in. Feel His embrace and allow Him to hold you long&#8230;it&#8217;s okay , y&#8217;know. He wants to love on His children and<em> that includes you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re in His presence, look up at Him. \u00a0See the smile on His face. \u00a0See how He looks at you with adoration and joy. \u00a0It is time to \u00a0let all the cares of this world just crumble and vanish in His presence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">{<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">Oh Jesus, please draw us closer to You. Let all the other things of this world pale in comparison and keep us from putting anything before You, oh Lord. \u00a0Let all our chains be broken in Your name. \u00a0Break all addictions, oh Lord. \u00a0All worry and all spirit of fear replace with peace that only You can give. You are stronger than any burden that we carry, Jesus&#8230;.<\/span>}<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Friend, if you prayed this song today, I am so glad! Jesus wants to <span style=\"color: #800080;\">captivate<\/span> us, and be so big in our lives that He is the first and last thing we think about. That during the day&#8212;when burdens stack up&#8212;that we are quick to give them to His capable hands. \u00a0He is waiting and watching and hoping to get some time with you today&#8230;I pray He consumes you, friend!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dear Jesus, we echo the prayer above today. \u00a0Oh Jesus, we come to You today wanting to be captivated by You. \u00a0We want to put all earthly things aside and just dwell in You. \u00a0I pray that the things of this world will become so small in the presence of our big Savior. \u00a0Thank You for Your arms that hold us and for Your smile that warms us and for Your nail-scarred hands that stretch out to pull us close. \u00a0Keep us focused on You. \u00a0In Your name we pray, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your face is beautiful And Your eyes are like the stars Your gentle hands have healing There inside the scars Your loving arms they draw me near And Your smile it brings me peace Draw me closer oh, my Lord Draw me closer, Lord, to Thee And captivate us, Lord Jesus, set our eyes on [&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":[1795,9227,1287,425,589,620,746,791,4932,1814,1794],"class_list":["post-27024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-captivate-us","tag-christy-nockels","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-kim-spring","tag-love","tag-peace","tag-prayer","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-song-of-solomon-49","tag-watermark","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-71S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27024","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=27024"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27040,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27024\/revisions\/27040"}],"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=27024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}