{"id":27152,"date":"2015-08-10T00:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T04:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2015-08-09T23:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T03:55:21","slug":"step-by-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/10\/step-by-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Step By Step"},"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;\">Sometimes the night was beautiful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sometimes the sky was so far away<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sometimes it seemed to stoop so close<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You could touch it but your heart would break<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sometimes the morning came too soon<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sometimes the day could be so hot<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> There was so much work left to do<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But so much You\u2019d already done<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Oh God, You are my God<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>And I will ever praise You<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>Oh God, You are my God<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>And I will ever praise You<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>And I will seek You in the morning<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>And I will learn to walk in Your ways<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>And step by step You\u2019ll lead me<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em>And I will follow You all of my days<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Sometimes I think of Abraham<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> How one star he saw had been lit for me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He was a stranger in this land<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And I am that, no less than he<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And on this road to righteousness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sometimes the climb can be so steep<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I may falter in my steps<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But never beyond Your reach<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2KOCgC8DnU?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Rich Mullins<\/em><br \/>\nwritten along with David Strasser<\/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>This was one of the very first \u2018contemporary\u2019 Christian songs I ever heard. \u00a0I fell in love immediately. \u00a0Little did I know how much this song would affect me or that I would continue to carry it with me \u201c<em>all of my days<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rich Mullins considered this a prayer song because, as he said, \u00a0\u201cSometimes I find it hard to pray.\u201d \u00a0(Don\u2019t we all?) \u00a0Rich also talked about trying to impress God with our prayers: \u201cWe don\u2019t have to impress Him\u2026He is already knocked out about you\u2026God takes the junk of our lives and makes the greatest art out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the cry of my heart, that \u201c<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I will seek You in the morning and I will learn to walk in Your ways; and step by step You\u2019ll lead me\u2026and I will follow You all of my days<\/span><\/em>!\u201d \u00a0I desperately want Him to take the junk of my life and make something beautiful out of it.<\/p>\n<p>My deepest desire is to seek Him each morning and follow Him\u2026<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>truly s<\/em><em>tep by step<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0I pray God will \u201cGuide my steps by Your Word, so I will not be overcome by evil\u201d (Psalm 119:133 NLT). \u00a0But, being human, I falter and sometimes I fail. \u00a0What a relief to know that I am never beyond His reach. \u00a0Psalm 139:7 (HCSB) asks the question, \u201cWhere can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?\u201d \u00a0Acts 17:27b (HCSB) provides an answer, \u201cHe is not far from each one of us.\u201d \u00a0Deuteronomy 4:7 (NASB) ties it all up for us, \u201cFor what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is the Lord our God whenever we call on Him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think this quote from Jerry Bridges gives a great\u00a0perspective:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God\u2019s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God\u2019s grace.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We cannot escape God\u2019s amazing grace. \u00a0It is always there for us. We will always have need of it\u2014at our best and at our worst. \u00a0That\u2019s why I am so thankful that \u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Oh God, You are my God\u2026.<\/em><\/span>\u201d \u00a0Yes, \u201c<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I will ever praise You!<\/span><\/em>\u201d<\/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>Lord, I am so thankful for Your leadership. \u00a0I am grateful You direct my steps. \u00a0Teach me to walk closely with You. \u00a0Keep my feet on the path You have placed them on that I may follow You all of my days. \u00a0In Christ\u2019s name, I ask this, Amen! \u00a0It Is SO!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the night was beautiful Sometimes the sky was so far away Sometimes it seemed to stoop so close You could touch it but your heart would break Sometimes the morning came too soon Sometimes the day could be so hot There was so much work left to do But so much You\u2019d already done [&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":[7538,5889,7539,7541,425,2025,2216,7537,4932,1939,7540,7536],"class_list":["post-27152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-acts-1727","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-deuteronomy-47","tag-follow-him-all-of-my-days","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-jerry-bridges","tag-psalm-11933","tag-psalm-1397","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-rich-mullins","tag-seek-him-every-morning","tag-step-by-step","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-73W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152","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=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27154,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions\/27154"}],"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=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}