{"id":5842,"date":"2012-12-12T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T06:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2013-01-25T01:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T06:00:27","slug":"lady-in-waiting-meditationsyou-must-move-inhannah-whitall-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/12\/lady-in-waiting-meditationsyou-must-move-inhannah-whitall-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady in Waiting: Meditations: You Must Move In, Hannah Whitall Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"John<\/a>

John 15: 9-10<\/p><\/div>\n

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Life can feel so complicated and complex at times, answers can feel so far away and four words \u201cabide in my love\u201d can seem unrealistic and unattainable. How do I abide in His love? How do I find that place that Hannah Whitall Smith describes as a place without the fear of \u201csupposes\u201d? Well, her words tell us to simply move in. John 15: 9-10 does not tell us that we have to be single or married, young or old, whether we have children or not\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0matter either. What matters is that we are all children of God and He is our dwelling place, He is our safe place, our place without the worry of fear.<\/p>\n

Throughout this study we have had to look deep into ourselves, we have had to ask ourselves questions that may have been difficult, our hearts may have changed, and our way of thinking may have been evaluated; but, in the end it brought us closer to God, closer to our safe place.<\/p>\n

I’ve said from the beginning that our relationship is the number one priority, not our status in life. We can abide in His love because He says we can. While you are a lady in waiting, after you are married, and every place in between, abide in His love.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod is your dwelling place, and you must see to it that you take up your abode there. You must move in.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

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Let’s Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for a safe place from the fear of the “supposes”. \u00a0Thank You for loving us, loving us enough to open Your heart and Your arms to us, regardless of our status. Thank You for using this study to teach us, for using it to help us grow closer to You. \u00a0Please help us to continue to grow and learn, please encourage us to abide in You despite the complications of life. \u00a0In Jesus’ name, amen.<\/p>\n

Your Assignment: <\/strong><\/p>\n

What does abiding in God’s love mean to you?<\/p>\n

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Life can feel so complicated and complex at times, answers can feel so far away and four words \u201cabide in my love\u201d can seem unrealistic and unattainable. How do I abide in His love? How do I find that place that Hannah Whitall Smith describes as a place without the fear of \u201csupposes\u201d? Well, her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5844,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[144,147,292,362,425,545,554,563,593,674,724,1075],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-singles","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-debbie-jones","tag-exodus-347","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-jackie-kendall","tag-jesus","tag-john-15-9-10","tag-lady-in-waiting","tag-meditations","tag-online-bible-study","tag-tonya-ellison","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gch_john15_9thru10.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-1we","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}