{"id":28192,"date":"2015-10-19T00:15:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=28192"},"modified":"2015-10-18T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T02:05:40","slug":"10000-reasons-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/19\/10000-reasons-4\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Reasons"},"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><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bless the Lord, O my soul, O my soul<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Worship His holy name<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sing like never before, O my soul<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I worship Your holy name<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The sun comes up; it&#8217;s a new day dawning<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s time to sing Your song again<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let me be singing when the evening comes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You&#8217;re rich in love and You&#8217;re slow to anger<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Your name is great and Your heart is kind<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> For all Your goodness, I will keep on singing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 10,000 reasons for my heart to find<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And on that day when my strength is failing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The end draws near and my time has come<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Still my soul will sing Your praise unending<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 10,000 years and then forever more<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bless the Lord, O my soul, O my soul<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Worship His holy name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sing like never before, O my soul<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I worship Your holy name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Jesus, I worship Your holy name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I worship Your holy name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sing like never before, O my soul<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I worship Your holy name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I worship Your holy name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I worship Your holy name<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XtwIT8JjddM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Matt Redman<\/em><br \/>\nwritten with Jonas Myrin<\/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 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul,<br \/>\nAnd all that is [deep] within me, bless His holy name.<br \/>\nBless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul,<br \/>\nPsalms 103:1-2a AMP<\/p>\n<p>Recently I have seen several FaceBook posts about blessing the Lord. \u00a0This song immediately came to mind. \u00a0And, as I thought about blessing the Lord, two questions were at the forefront:<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">1) <em><strong>Why<\/strong><\/em> are we to <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>bless the Lord<\/em><\/span>? \u00a0 \u00a02) <em><strong>How<\/strong><\/em> do we <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">bless the Lord<\/span><\/em>?<\/h4>\n<p>First, <span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"><strong><em>WHY<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 are we to <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">bless the Lord<\/span><\/strong><\/span>? \u00a0The song title says there are <strong>10,000 reasons<\/strong> to bless the Lord. \u00a0And in the second verse, it gives us several specific reasons taken from Scripture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Lord is rich in love<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But God, being [so very] rich in mercy,<br \/>\nbecause of His great and wonderful love with which He loved us&#8230;<br \/>\nEphesians 2:4 AMP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yahweh\u2014Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God,<br \/>\n&#8230;rich in faithful love and truth,<br \/>\nExodus 34:6 HCSB<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Lord is slow to anger<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Return to the Lord your God,<br \/>\nFor He is gracious and merciful,<br \/>\nSlow to anger,<br \/>\nJoel 2:13 NKJV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Lord is slow to anger&#8230;forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion<br \/>\nNumbers 14:18 HCSB<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>His name is great<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Inasmuch as there is none like You, O Lord<br \/>\nYou are great, and Your name is great in might<br \/>\nJeremiah 10:6 NKJV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I will vindicate the holiness of My great name<br \/>\nwhich has been profaned among the nations<br \/>\nEzekiel 36:23 NASB<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>His heart is kind<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For His merciful kindness is great toward us<br \/>\nPsalm 117:2 NKJV<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;But with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,\u201d<br \/>\nsays the Lord your Redeemer.<br \/>\nIsaiah 54:8 AMP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Lord is righteous in all His ways<br \/>\nAnd kind in all His deeds<br \/>\nPsalm 145:17 NASB<\/p>\n<p>But, the best reason is because <strong>He loves us<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=john+3%3A16&amp;version=NASB;AMP;NIV;ESV;KJV\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0John 3:16<\/a> tells us He loved us so much that He sent His only Son to die in our place, so that we could have everlasting life.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">Augustine explained it like this<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\">&#8220;God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His plan would have been put into effect even if you or I were the only person on earth. This leaves me speechless!<\/p>\n<p>And, second,<span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;\"> <b><i>HOW<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 do we <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">bless the Lord<\/span><\/strong><\/span>? \u00a0What could I possibly do that would bless Him? \u00a0Thankfully, in the words of David, we have the answer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I will bless the Lord at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all times<\/span>;<br \/>\nHis praise shall <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">continually be in my mout<\/span>h.<br \/>\nMy soul shall make its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">boast in the Lor<\/span>d;<br \/>\nThe humble shall hear of it and be glad.<br \/>\nOh, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">magnify the Lord<\/span> with me,<br \/>\nAnd let us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">exalt His name<\/span> together.<br \/>\nPsalm 34:1-3NKJV<\/p>\n<p>We are to praise the Lord continually\u2014boast about Him, magnify Him, and exalt His Holy name. \u00a0That&#8217;s how we<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> bless the Lord<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. \u00a0(That&#8217;s not asking too much, is it?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bless the Lord, O my soul, O my soul Worship His holy name Sing like never before, O my soul I worship Your holy name The sun comes up; it&#8217;s a new day dawning It&#8217;s time to sing Your song again Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me Let me be singing when the [&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":[1374,5889,9546,1287,425,5652,7302,9547,566,1371,9548,9545,9544,3548,4932,9549],"class_list":["post-28192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-10000-reasons","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-ezekiel-3623","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-isaiah-548","tag-jeremiah-106","tag-joel-213","tag-john-316","tag-matt-redman","tag-numbers-1418","tag-psalm-1172","tag-psalm-14517","tag-psalms-341-3","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-why-and-how-do-we-bless-the-lord","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-7kI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192","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=28192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28194,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192\/revisions\/28194"}],"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=28192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}