{"id":4181,"date":"2011-05-26T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T14:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2011-05-26T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T14:46:29","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IF ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I CAME ACROSS THIS SONG TODAY:)<br \/>\n&#8220;BLESSINGS&#8221;  by laura story<br \/>\nyou can listen on you tube, she says there is a blessedness that comes when you wait on the Lord and an intimacy with the Lord that comes when you walk through the valleys, there is a reliance on HIS word, when everything else fades away&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8220;BLESSINGS&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We pray for blessings<br \/>\nWe pray for peace<br \/>\nComfort for family, protection while we sleep<br \/>\nWe pray for healing, for prosperity<br \/>\nWe pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering<br \/>\nAll the while, You hear each spoken need<br \/>\nYet love us way too much to give us lesser things<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops<br \/>\nWhat if Your healing comes through tears<br \/>\nWhat if a thousand sleepless nights<br \/>\nAre what it takes to know You\u2019re near<br \/>\nWhat if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We pray for wisdom<br \/>\nYour voice to hear<br \/>\nAnd we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near<br \/>\nWe doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love<br \/>\nAs if every promise from Your Word is not enough<br \/>\nAll the while, You hear each desperate plea<br \/>\nAnd long that we&#8217;d have faith to believe<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nCause what if Your blessings come through raindrops<br \/>\nWhat if Your healing comes through tears<br \/>\nWhat if a thousand sleepless nights<br \/>\nAre what it takes to know You\u2019re near<br \/>\nAnd what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When friends betray us<br \/>\nWhen darkness seems to win<br \/>\nWe know the pain reminds this heart<br \/>\nThat this is not, this is not our home<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops<br \/>\nWhat if Your healing comes through tears<br \/>\nAnd what if a thousand sleepless nights<br \/>\nAre what it takes to know You\u2019re near<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat if my greatest disappointments<br \/>\nOr the aching of this life<br \/>\nIs the revealing of a greater thirst this world can\u2019t satisfy<\/p>\n<p>And what if trials of this life<br \/>\nThe rain, the storms, the hardest nights<br \/>\nAre Your mercies in disguise<\/p>\n<p>WHAT IF????????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I CAME ACROSS THIS SONG TODAY:) &#8220;BLESSINGS&#8221; by laura story you can listen on you tube, she says there is a blessedness that comes when you wait on the Lord and an intimacy with the Lord that comes when you walk through the valleys, there is a reliance on HIS word, when everything else fades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}