{"id":40,"date":"2006-05-16T00:07:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T00:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=40"},"modified":"2006-05-16T00:07:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T00:07:38","slug":"pump-pump-pump-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"pump, pump, pump it up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just the other day i decided to do my quiet time outside. i laid<br \/>\nflat on the ground with my eyes staring up to the sky. it was<br \/>\na beautiful, blue and full of fluffy, white clouds kind of sky, but what caught my<br \/>\nattention most of all was that the clouds were completely motionless. i had<br \/>\nnever seen the clouds just simply NOT moving&#8230; not a bit&#8230; complete<br \/>\nand utter stillness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/clouds_0007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"131\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Clouds_0007\" src=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.typepad.com\/pink_haired_girl\/images\/clouds_0007.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>there was something about it being motionless at the same time i was motionless that made me so aware of God&#8217;s presence&#8230; and BIGNESS&#8230; it<br \/>\nwas the simplicity of being still &#8230; in silence &#8230; that spoke volumes<br \/>\nto me and showed me my current spiritual temperature. \n<\/p>\n<p>unexpectedly i had just entered into worship. <\/p>\n<p>i love when i can get pumped up about something&#8230; and this is one of those things.&nbsp; my post today, was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/flowerdust.net\">Anne Jackson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/troykennedy.typepad.com\">Troy Kennedy<\/a>&#8216;s recent posts about worship. I too wanted to chime in on my thoughts &#8230; but most of all&#8230; i write today out of my own desire for genuine &amp; intimate worship &#8211; not only in our churches &#8211; but in our personal lives that is in our own personal way. <\/p>\n<p>No, i am not speaking as a worship leader, but as a Christian woman. I am woman, hear me roar&#8230;. :) <\/p>\n<p>semi-related to one of my previous posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.typepad.com\/pink_haired_girl\/2006\/05\/big_pile_of_spi.html\">God, Spiders and Britney Spears<\/a>, it is another part of my journey to becoming more <strong><em>dangerous for God<\/em><\/strong>.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p> Worship, to me, is so much more than music and singing to God. although that is a very important aspect of worship &#8211; worshiping God can be done in an infinite amount of ways &#8211; this is something i am learning more and more every day. i have a huge desire to help those &quot;stuck in the box&quot; step out and discover other ways to worship their God. <\/p>\n<p>worship is any act a believer does with the intent to praise God. whether that be in stillness, silence, writing, singing, praying, serving others, etc. these can all be a form of worship. <\/p>\n<p>listen up&#8230; God wants your love and praise. wouldn&#8217;t you think He&#8217;d love it more if we when we came to Him &#8211; we came intimately &#8211; using the gifts He made us passionate about? <\/p>\n<p>how amazing is it that God will come when we call on Him and how<br \/>\namazing is it that we can express our love for Him using the gifts that<br \/>\nHe has given us?<\/p>\n<p>p.s. i love my mom<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/for_xanga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" border=\"0\" alt=\"For_xanga\" src=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.typepad.com\/pink_haired_girl\/images\/for_xanga.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just the other day i decided to do my quiet time outside. i laid flat on the ground with my eyes staring up to the sky. it was a beautiful, blue and full of fluffy, white clouds kind of sky, but what caught my attention most of all was that the clouds were completely motionless.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=40\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">pump, pump, pump it up!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermonettes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}