{"id":27819,"date":"2015-09-29T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T04:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27819"},"modified":"2015-09-28T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T03:00:03","slug":"lead-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/29\/lead-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Me"},"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><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I look around and see my wonderful life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Almost perfect from the outside<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In picture frames, I see my beautiful wife<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Always smiling, but on the inside<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, I can hear her saying<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Lead me with strong hands<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Stand up when I can&#8217;t<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Don&#8217;t leave me hungry for love<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Chasing dreams, but what about us<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Show me you&#8217;re willing to fight<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> That I&#8217;m still the love of your life<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> I know we call this our home<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> But I still feel alone<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I see their faces, look in their innocent eyes<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> They&#8217;re just children from the outside<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m working hard, I tell myself they&#8217;ll be fine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> They&#8217;re independent, but on the inside<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, I can hear them saying<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So, Father, give me the strength<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To be everything I&#8217;m called to be<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh Father, show me the way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To lead them<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Won&#8217;t You lead me?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">To lead them with strong hands<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To stand up when they can&#8217;t<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Don&#8217;t want to leave them hungry for love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Chasing things that I could give up<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ll show them I&#8217;m willing to fight<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And give them the best of my life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So we can call this our home<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Lead me &#8217;cause I can&#8217;t do this alone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Father, lead me &#8217;cause I can&#8217;t do this alone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLr6G8Xy5uc?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sanctus Real<br \/>\n<\/em>Matt Hammitt, Jason Ingram, Chris Rohman<\/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>How transparent the writers of this song are! \u00a0They want to lead their families in the right way&#8212;to be a guide, a good example of how to live life. \u00a0How much more should we live our life for our families? \u00a0With God all these things are possible. \u00a0We should have nothing we desire or need. \u00a0God will provide all we need. \u00a0All the love, support, peace of mind, and joy.<\/p>\n<p>They are wise men to ask for\u00a0God&#8217;s help in leading their families! We can&#8217;t do these things in our own power. \u00a0We are often too quick to begin to seek our own desires and not keep our focus on God&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am echoing their simple prayer:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Father, lead me &#8217;cause I can&#8217;t do this alone<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name, Amen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look around and see my wonderful life Almost perfect from the outside In picture frames, I see my beautiful wife Always smiling, but on the inside Oh, I can hear her saying Lead me with strong hands Stand up when I can&#8217;t Don&#8217;t leave me hungry for love Chasing dreams, but what about us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[9456,1287,425,2711,4932,8379,1071],"class_list":["post-27819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-asking-gods-help","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-lead-me","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-sanctus-real","tag-tina-marin","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-7eH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27819","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27819"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27906,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27819\/revisions\/27906"}],"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=27819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}