{"id":28974,"date":"2015-12-07T00:15:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=28974"},"modified":"2015-12-06T23:22:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T04:22:38","slug":"born-is-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/07\/born-is-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Born Is The King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23090\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014.jpg\" alt=\"phssChristmasgraphic2014\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014.jpg 560w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">Born unto us this day the Savior<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">Gifted from Heaven to a manger<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">Hope of the world tonight for all mankind<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">All of the earth rejoice<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">It&#8217;s Christmastime<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">So lift up your voice and sing out His praise<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">It&#8217;s Christmas<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">Born is the King, rejoice in the day<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">It&#8217;s Christmas<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">Make a joyful sound<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">It&#8217;s Christmas<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">Let His praise resound<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">It&#8217;s Christmas<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">Goodwill to all the earth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">And peace divine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">All of the earth rejoice<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">It&#8217;s Christmastime<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">It&#8217;s Christmastime<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">It&#8217;s Christmastime<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MwyyjEsUh-Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Phillips, Craig and Dean<\/em><br \/>\nWriters: Scott Ligertwood and Matt Crocker<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #a11e24;\">* \u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0~ \u00a0\u271d \u00a0~ \u00a0\u2605 \u00a0 *<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t be afraid!\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cI bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people.\u201d<br \/>\nLuke 2:10 NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.<br \/>\nMatthew 2:10 NASB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cBehold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!<br \/>\nJohn 1:29 NJK<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cGlory to God in the highest,<br \/>\nAnd on earth peace, goodwill toward men!\u201d<br \/>\nLuke 2:14 NKJV<\/p>\n<p>I think I may have found a new favorite Christmas song. \u00a0Heard this song for the first time and I could not wait to hear it again. \u00a0To me, this song reflects exactly what Matthew 2:10 NASB is talking about:\u00a0\u201cthey <em>rejoiced<\/em> exceedingly with <em><strong>great<\/strong> joy<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We have so much to rejoice about yet we get so caught up in the worldly ideas of Christmas; we forget to stop and celebrate the great<br \/>\nGift we have been given. There is a line in an <em>Alabama<\/em> Christmas song that says:<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>The gift is just what&#8217;s in your heart and not what&#8217;s in your hand<\/em>\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>I need to remind myself of that quite frequently. \u00a0Christmas joy should come from what is in our hearts. \u00a0Our voices should be lifted in praise for what this one birth means to the entire world. \u00a0As Romans 15:10 states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Again it says,<br \/>\n\u201cRejoice and celebrate, O Gentiles, along with His people.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd again,\u201cPraise the Lord all you Gentiles,<br \/>\nAnd let all the peoples praise Him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This song is that happy celebration of the glorious Christmas event. There is such joy in this song! \u00a0You can\u2019t help but sing along in a loud, unrestrained voice. \u201c<span style=\"color: #a11e24;\"><em>Born is the King<\/em><\/span>\u201d is a great reminder to celebrate the birth of Jesus with unrestrained joy.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">After all, isn\u2019t that what Christmas is supposed to be about?<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born unto us this day the Savior Gifted from Heaven to a manger Hope of the world tonight for all mankind All of the earth rejoice It&#8217;s Christmastime So lift up your voice and sing out His praise It&#8217;s Christmas Born is the King, rejoice in the day It&#8217;s Christmas Make a joyful sound It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":23090,"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":[9754,4663,5889,1287,425,4020,577,4865,4655,9756,8473,4932,4368,9755],"class_list":["post-28974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-born-is-the-king","tag-christmas-carols","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-john-129","tag-joy","tag-luke-210","tag-luke-214","tag-matthew-210","tag-phillips-craig-and-dean","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-rejoicing","tag-romans-1510","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/phssChristmasgraphic2014.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7xk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28974","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=28974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28976,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28974\/revisions\/28976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}