{"id":28075,"date":"2015-10-11T00:15:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=28075"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:47:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T10:47:53","slug":"pray-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/11\/pray-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray"},"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;\">I bow my head to pray<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I don&#8217;t know what to say<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m not sure how to fix<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The things I&#8217;m dealing with<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m in a desperate place<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I need to share the weight<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But I just don&#8217;t know how<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To let it all pour out<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And though I&#8217;m silent<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> My heart is crying<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> &#8216;Cause I was made to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Come to You<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So I pray<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> God, I need you more than words can say<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Right here in this moment<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You know my heart<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You know my need<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You know every part of me<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So even if it&#8217;s just to speak Your name<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m gonna pray<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I failed to find the time<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But You&#8217;ve been calling out<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I let the days go by as if I could live without<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> But it&#8217;s gotta be here and now<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I won&#8217;t be pulled away<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> &#8216;Cause it&#8217;s just You and I<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So let the world around us fade<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Father, will You meet me here right now<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Father, I surrender, lay it down<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Father, and every time I close my eyes I know that I was made<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To lift my hands and pray<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I lift my hands and pray<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You know my heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You know my need<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And every single part of me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> So even if it&#8217;s just to speak Your name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m gonna pray<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m gonna pray<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You know my heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You know my need<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You know every part of me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> and more than words<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You want my life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Take it as an offering<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_J4I4gsvYA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sanctus Real<\/em><br \/>\nsongwriter: Mark Everett<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><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>If you don&#8217;t <em><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"><strong>pray<\/strong><\/span><\/em>, you&#8217;ll fall <span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"><strong>prey<\/strong><\/span> to the enemy at some point in your life. Prayer is so important to my relationship with the Lord. \u00a0I begin in the morning by just talking to Him. \u00a0First thing after I open my eyes, I say,&#8221;Dear Lord&#8230;&#8221; and I don&#8217;t stop until my eyes close at night.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes life gets chaotic and other things are so loud that I can&#8217;t hear His voice. \u00a0That&#8217;s when I know that I need to be intentional about my prayers. \u00a0I make hard stops and hit my knees and cry out to my Creator. Just looking up at Him and saying His name can silence the enemy immediately. \u00a0And when He feels far away, I whisper His name and He comes close. \u00a0I start my prayer with hands open to receive and end my prayer with my hands reached up high in praise for all that He is about to do.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, just because He is quiet doesn&#8217;t mean that He isn&#8217;t answering your prayers. \u00a0Just keep praising Him for the answer and show that You trust Him in this season. \u00a0He will reward your faith. \u00a0Your life will be so full of joy and it will be because of constant communication with God!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances;<br \/>\nfor this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.<br \/>\n1 Thessalonians 5:16-18<\/p>\n<p>Pray continually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.<br \/>\nRomans 12:12<\/p>\n<p>Give thanks in all circumstances&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.<br \/>\nColossians 4:2<\/p>\n<p>Rejoice always&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!<br \/>\nPhilippians 4:4<\/p>\n<p>Because He always love you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><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><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Let us pray<\/span><\/em>: \u00a0Dear Lord, thank You that we can come straight to You and talk to You. \u00a0We don&#8217;t need priests or saints or temples&#8230;we just need You. You promise that when we pray, that You hear us and You will answer us. You come near when we press in! \u00a0Help us to stay in constant prayer and to believe even when it looks like all is going wrong. \u00a0You never let us down and You are always on our side. \u00a0Grant us joy and peace, oh Lord! \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bow my head to pray I don&#8217;t know what to say I&#8217;m not sure how to fix The things I&#8217;m dealing with I&#8217;m in a desperate place I need to share the weight But I just don&#8217;t know how To let it all pour out And though I&#8217;m silent My heart is crying &#8216;Cause [&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":[1394,1875,1287,425,589,790,4932,2232,8379,9512],"class_list":["post-28075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-thessalonians-516-18","tag-colossians-42","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-kim-spring","tag-pray","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-romans-1212","tag-sanctus-real","tag-scripture-about-prayer","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-7iP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28075","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=28075"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28084,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28075\/revisions\/28084"}],"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=28075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}