{"id":28763,"date":"2015-11-22T00:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T05:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=28763"},"modified":"2015-11-21T23:27:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T04:27:45","slug":"the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/22\/the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"The River"},"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 know a place<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Where we can go<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To lay the troubles down eating your soul<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I know a place<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Where mercy flows<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Take the stains make you whiter than snow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Like a tide it is rising up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Deep inside<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> A current that moves and makes you come alive<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Living water<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That brings the dead to life<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>We&#8217;re going down to the river<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> Down to the river<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> Down to the river to pray<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> Let&#8217;s get washed by the water<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> Washed by the water<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> And rise up in amazing grace<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> Let&#8217;s go down, down, down to the river<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> You will leave changed<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> Let&#8217;s go down, down, down to the river<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em> Never the same<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ve seen it move<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> In my own life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Took me from dusty roads into Paradise<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> All of my dirt<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> All of my shame<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Drowned in the streams that have made me born again<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Like a tide it is rising up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Deep inside<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> A current that moves and makes you come alive<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Living Water<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That brings the dead to life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Let&#8217;s go down<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let&#8217;s go down<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let&#8217;s go down<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/maT4phfTXR4?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Jordan Feliz<\/em><br \/>\nWritten along with: Colby Wedgeworth and Josh Silverberg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271e \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a special place to pray? \u00a0Where do you go to lay it all down? \u00a0Oh, it&#8217;s true, we can only carry so much and then we have to let it go. \u00a0And once you do, then you feel alive again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded, as I listen to this song, of the story of the woman at the well. \u00a0She comes to get water for her home, at a time when she felt that no one would be there. \u00a0For she was an outcast. \u00a0Here is an excerpt from her story in the Bible:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jesus said, \u201cEveryone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. \u00a0But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again\u2014ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cSir,\u201d the woman said to Him, \u201cgive me this water so I won\u2019t get thirsty and come here to draw water.\u201d \u00a0\u201cGo call your husband,\u201d He told her, \u201cand come back here.\u201d \u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t have a husband,\u201d she answered. \u00a0\u201cYou have correctly said, \u2018I don\u2019t have a husband,\u2019\u201d Jesus said. \u00a0\u201cFor you\u2019ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cSir,\u201d the woman replied, \u201cI see that You are a prophet. \u00a0Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus told her, \u201cBelieve Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. \u00a0You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews. \u00a0But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him. \u00a0God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d<br \/>\nThe woman said to Him, \u201cI know that Messiah is coming\u201d (who is called Christ). \u201cWhen He comes, He will explain everything to us.\u201d \u00a0\u201cI am He,\u201d Jesus told her, \u201cthe One speaking to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">John 4:13-26<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He still speaks, my friend; and to you! \u00a0That Living Water is for you, too. \u00a0On those days that you are so empty that there isn&#8217;t anything left, let Him fill you up. \u00a0You are His and He loves you. He is waiting&#8230;.<\/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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Let us pray<\/em><\/span>: \u00a0Dear Lord, thank You for loving us. \u00a0And for the rivers of mercy and grace that flow freely for us, Your children. \u00a0Lord, as the season of Thanksgiving comes upon us, remind us of all the blessings that have come our way, all our life. And for those who are struggling, and are hurting, feeling like there isn&#8217;t any gratitude left, show them Your face and fill them with the Living Water that only You can give. \u00a0Help us to be You to them. \u00a0Praises and love to You. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a place Where we can go To lay the troubles down eating your soul I know a place Where mercy flows Take the stains make you whiter than snow Like a tide it is rising up Deep inside A current that moves and makes you come alive Living water That brings the dead [&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":[425,454,9703,9701,589,680,4932,9704,9700,9702],"class_list":["post-28763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-grace","tag-john-4","tag-jordan-feliz","tag-kim-spring","tag-mercy","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-release-your-cares-to-him","tag-the-river","tag-the-woman-at-the-well","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-7tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763","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=28763"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28768,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763\/revisions\/28768"}],"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=28763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}