{"id":1657,"date":"2015-06-07T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/blessings-through-raindrops\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:03:26","slug":"blessings-through-raindrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"Blessings Through Raindrops"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 154 of Photo Inspirations — Blessings Through Raindrops<\/p>\n

I turned on Pandora and this song by Mercy River was playing.   Oftentimes I listen to songs, but really don’t pay too much attention to the words.  But, this time, not only was I hearing the words as though they were straight from heaven, I felt so impressed to play them for my family. Staci immediately said, “Mom, don’t you remember how I sang that song when Daddy was so sick?  It was such a great comfort to me.” <\/p>\n

So, today, I share them with you.  They just may be the words coming straight from heaven to you.  The verses carefully detail how we typically pray.  We ask God to comfort us, protect us, ease our pain.  This song called \u201dBlessings\u201d, is such a powerful lesson.  Most people think life should be good, and that the \u201dblessing\u201d is smooth, easy days, being healthy, care-free, and  financially secure.
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\nThis song tells it better than I can.  Here are the lyrics, and here is the link to this beautiful song.  I hope you listen and watch this video:  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SGniRk_GcLs<\/p>\n

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace; comfort for family, protection while we sleep; we pray for healing, for prosperity. We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering, And all the while, You hear each spoken need, yet love us way too much to give us lesser things.<\/p>\n

\u2018Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops?
\nWhat if Your healing comes through tears?
\nWhat if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You\u2019re near?
\nWhat if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?<\/p>\n

We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear. We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near. We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love, as if every promise from Your word is not enough. And all the while, You hear each desperate plea,
\nand long that we\u2019d have faith to believe.<\/p>\n

\u2018Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops?
\nWhat if Your healing comes through tears?
\nWhat if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You\u2019re near?
\nWhat if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?<\/p>\n

When friends betray us; when darkness seems to win, we know that pain reminds this heart, that this is not, this is not our home.  It\u2019s not our home.<\/p>\n

\u2018Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops
\nWhat if Your healing comes through tears
\nWhat if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You\u2019re near<\/p>\n

What if my greatest disappointments or the aching of this life, Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can\u2019t satisfy? What if trials of this life — the rain, the storms, the hardest nights —
\nAre your mercies in disguise?<\/p>\n

Isaiah 41:10
\n\u201dDon’t be afraid, because I am your God. I will make you strong and help you; I will support you with my right hand that saves you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, God hears those prayers……and answers each and every one — in His time and His way.  When we understand His profoun love for us, then we’ll understand that the “stuff” we encounter (the trials of this life) are His tender mercies in disguise.  He knows that without the trials and learning to seek Him through the pain, we may not know our desperate need for Him.  God is so rich in His mercies and ON PURPOSE to bring about the very BEST for our lives.  So….we trust in Him…..knowing that “ALL THESE THINGS are working together for OUR GOOD……”Romans 8:28.  Thank you, Father God.  Indeed the rain and the storms are your mercies in disguise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 154 of Photo Inspirations — Blessings Through Raindrops I turned on Pandora and this song by Mercy River was playing.   Oftentimes I listen to songs, but really don’t pay too much attention to the words.  But, this time, not only was I hearing the words as though they were straight from heaven, I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[837,10156,1163,1235,10157,10158,9240,1238,922],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blessings","tag-blessings-come-through-rain-drops","tag-isaiah-4110","tag-mercies-in-disguise","tag-mercy-river","tag-pandora","tag-photo-inspirations","tag-raindrops","tag-sleepless-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}