{"id":27534,"date":"2015-09-06T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T04:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27534"},"modified":"2015-09-05T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T23:09:57","slug":"the-greatest-story-ever-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/06\/the-greatest-story-ever-told\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Story Ever Told"},"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;\">Some days your own resolve is strong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And other days you bend<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s two steps forward, one step back<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And a stumble now and then<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You wonder if you&#8217;ll ever really make the difference<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You&#8217;ve prayed that you will<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Well, I know that prayer will be fulfilled &#8217;cause<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Your life woven day by day<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Is a new design of the glory God displays<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> On the canvas of creation<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Through the poem of history<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In the pattern of redemption<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Running through the tapestry<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your life in Christ can be<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The greatest story ever told<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You cannot see the hands of God<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Or feel the grace that flows<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> From Him through you to those you touch<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In ways you&#8217;ll never know<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You cannot measure worth by human standards<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That&#8217;s always a lie<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, you have to see through Heaven&#8217;s eyes how<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the light of eternity<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Standing face to face you will finally see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> For the very first time you&#8217;ll understand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your perfect place in the Master&#8217;s plan and how<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uAllfyiHel0?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><center><\/center><center><em>Avalon<br \/>\n<\/em>written by Bill Gaither and J.D. Miller<\/center><center><\/center><center><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yet LORD, You are our Father; <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">we are the clay, and You are our potter; <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">we all are the work of Your hands.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Isaiah 64:8 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I love art. \u00a0Especially when I can take something that is broken into pieces and make a creative design. \u00a0Like a mosaic! \u00a0All the pieces are different shapes and colors; they are from different pieces of pottery that have been special to me in some way. \u00a0To someone else, they look like broken pieces of glass&#8230;until they are placed in plaster and set to dry. \u00a0Then&#8230;tada! \u00a0You have a table top, or a vase, or a trivet. \u00a0Whatever you want to make!<\/p>\n<p>God makes broken things beautiful. \u00a0He is the Master Artist and He takes the hardest, most broken parts of us making out of them the most beautiful masterpiece. \u00a0We all have a story. \u00a0And if we let Him, He can make it His story and it can help countless people just by sharing it. \u00a0God then gets the glory for the redeeming and the restoring of you!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you are walking in freedom from addiction and have a story that will give other women and men hope that they, too, can be victorious. Maybe you are a child of divorce and can give someone the assurance that Jesus can help them through anything. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know your story&#8230;but God does. \u00a0 He is so full of joy over you and He wants the world to see what He has done in you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So what do we do next?&#8217; \u00a0you ask? \u00a0We have to be willing to do <strong>whatever<\/strong> He asks and go <strong>wherever<\/strong> He tells us to go and share with <strong>whoever<\/strong> He knows needs to hear our hope story. \u00a0And always remember that we couldn&#8217;t succeed on our own and that only One gets the glory for it all&#8230;Jesus!<\/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><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Let us pray<\/span><\/em>: Dear Lord, You are the Master and we are Your clay&#8212;mold us and make us the way that best glorifies You, oh God! \u00a0Thank You for each one of these stories today. \u00a0Thank You for giving us victories over our trials and for allowing us to be a part of the greatest story ever told. \u00a0And for those still struggling today, give them the strength to ask for help and put someone in their lives that can help them through because of their own experience. \u00a0We worship You and we praise You. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days your own resolve is strong And other days you bend It&#8217;s two steps forward, one step back And a stumble now and then You wonder if you&#8217;ll ever really make the difference You&#8217;ve prayed that you will Well, I know that prayer will be fulfilled &#8217;cause Your life woven day by day Is [&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":[9365,9367,5787,540,589,4932,9366,1081,2125,9377],"class_list":["post-27534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-avalon","tag-broken-into-beautiful","tag-gaither","tag-isaiah-648","tag-kim-spring","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-the-greatest-story","tag-trials","tag-victory-in-christ","tag-your-life-in-christ","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-7a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534","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=27534"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27554,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534\/revisions\/27554"}],"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=27534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}