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From the book God Calling (www.twolisteners.org )
How unseeing the world goes on! How unknowing of your heartaches and troubles, your battles won, your conquests, your difficulties.
But be thankful, both of you, that there is One who knows, One who marks every crisis, every effort, every heartache.
For you both, who are not idle hearers, you must know that every troubled soul I tell you of, is one for you to help. You do not help enough. As you help, help will flow back and your circle of helpfulness will widen more and more, ever more and more.
Just feel that you are two of My disciples, present at the feeding of the five thousand, and that to you I hand out the food, and you pass it on, and ever more and more. You can always say with so few loaves and fishes “We have only enough for our own needs.” It was not only My Blessing, but the Passing-on of the disciples that worked the miracle.
Get a feeling of bounteous giving into your beings. They were “all filled.” There was a supply over.
I give with a large Hand and Heart. Note the draught of fishes. The net brake, the boat began to sink with the lavishness of My Gift. Lose sight of all limitations.
Abundance is God’s Supply. Turn out all limited thoughts. Receive showers and in your turn – shower.
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves;
but our sufficiency is of God. 2 Corinthians 3:5
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From the book God Calling (www.twolisteners.org )
May 7 – Against the Tide
The oarsman, trusting in Me, does not lean on his oars and drift with the tide, trusting to the current.
Nay, more often – once I have shown the way – it is against the tide you must direct all your effort. And even when difficulties come, it is by your effort that they will be surmounted. But always strength and the Joy in the doing you can have through Me.
My fishermen-disciples did not find the fishes ready on the shore in their nets. I take man’s efforts and bless that. I need man’s effort – he needs My blessing. This partnership it is that means success.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Philippians 2:13
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THE NIGHT BEFORE THE CROSS
I knew a while ago that this was going to happen, I knew that I am going to the court yard, some one will spit in my face, I will be b struck with fists , mocked, I knew it.
The night before the cross, my disciples told me that they are not goint to Leave me, even if they have to die with me ,all of them said so.
But I knew that was not going to happen, one of them is going to deny that he knows me 3 times, and the rest are going to leave me,
And yet I accepted it, I didn’t offend.
So when you give me a promise, when you tell me that you are not going to do something , you are going to leave this or that thing, when you honestly say so but then your promise falls, know that I am not going to leave you, and I knew from the start that you are going to break it, but I accepted it, I didn’t offend, my love to you didn’t stop.
The night before the cross I took 3 of my disciples, because I was sad and depressed I was sad to death, I wanted them to stay late with me, but they fell asleep, they couldn’t stay up for even an hour, in this deep need I had,
Know that when you need someone to stay up with you, in the time of your sadness or depression, call for me, I will come and stay up with you, I once was in your shoes, and I know how it feels, I will not leave you, I will stay up with you.
I am for the broken hearted,
I am for the weary
and I am for the sinners.
I knew that I t was coming, the betrayal, the escape of my disciples, and I asked My Father to pass this cup, but his will is what I desire , this cup should pass through me drinking it, so let it be My Father’s will
I knew my son that I am going to bleed, I knew that I am going to be lift up so I draw all the people to me, lifted up on the cross for you son.
32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33He said thisto show by what kind of death he was going to die.” (john 12:32-33)
Even my trial was not fair, they had nothing on me, “for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me” (john 14:30)
Remember all I was thinking of were you, and I did it because I love you, not because anything else, and during all of this I wasn’t thinking in my heart that I am doing something I have to do or because it was only my role ,No, You were in my heart… You rising with me, having your salvation , You free of sin , no longer a slave but a son , no longer living in darkness but seeing the light, no longer living in the land of the shadow of death ,but You finding Love you finding your rest… In Me..
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. (john 3 :16)
28″Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (matthew 11 :28 – 30)
.the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned ( matthew 4:16)
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From the book God Calling (www.twolisteners.org )
April 26 – I Make The Opportunities
Never doubt. Have no fear. Watch the faintest tremor of fear, and stop all work, everything, and rest before Me until you are joyful and strong again
Deal in the same way with all tired feelings. I was weary too, when on earth, and I separated Myself from My Disciples, and sat and rested on the well. Rested — and then it was that the Samaritan woman was helped.
Times of withdrawal for rest always precede fresh miracle-working. Learn of Me. To accept the limitations of human flesh is to be subject, except as far as sin is concerned, to the same conditions as man.
I had to teach renewal of Spirit — force rest of body to My Disciples. Then, as your Example, I lay with My Head on a pillow, asleep in the boat. It was not, as they thought, indifference. They cried, “Master, carest thou not that we perish?” and I had to teach them that ceaseless activity was no part of My Father’s plan.
When Paul said, “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me,” he did not mean that he was to do all things and then rely on Me to find strength. He meant that for all I told him to do he could rely on My supplying the strength.
My Work in the world has been hindered by work, work, work. Many a tireless nervous body has driven a spirit. The spirit should be the master always, and just simply and naturally use the body as need should arise. Rest in Me.
Do not seek to work for Me. Never make opportunities. Live with Me and for Me. I do the work and I make the opportunities.
“I can of mine own self do nothing.” John 5:30
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From the book God Calling (www.twolisteners.org )
April 4 – Divine Efficiency
I am all-powerful and all-knowing and I have all your affairs in My Hands. Divine efficiency as well as Divine power is being brought to bear on them. All miracle-work is not the work of a moment as so often men imagine.
My servant Peter was not changed in a flash from a simple fisherman to a great leader and teacher, but through the very time of faithlessness — through the very time of denial — I was yet making him all that he should be. Impetuous spokesman as he always was, ready to lead the other disciples, Peter could never have been the after power he was, had he not learned his weakness. No man can save, unless he understands the sinner.
The Peter who was a mighty force for Me afterwards, who, more than all others, founded My church, was not even first the Peter who said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,” but the Peter who denied Me. He who had tested My forgiveness in his moment of abject remorse, he could best speak of Me as the Savior.
The Kingdom of Heaven can only be preached by those who have learned to prize the authority of its Kingdom. A many-sided training My Apostles need. Oh! joy. Oh, rejoice. I love you. Not one test too much will I lay on you.
“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory.” 1 Peter 11:7
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From the book God at Eventide (www.twolisteners.org )
April 2 – Resurrection Preparation
I am the Master of the Universe. Accept My ordered Word. When you do this in joyful sincerity, you link yourself with all creative force of the universe.
My Spirit can then be operative, first in you and then through you.
My followers forget that the scourging at the pillar, the Divine control (“He answered never a word”) and the Cross, the man- rejected, man-forsaken, all these preceded the Resurrection.
Without these there could have been no Resurrection. These steps in Spirit-conquest had to be, before My all-powerful, Divine Spirit could be released to be forever available for those who would hear My Call, and would will to walk in My Way.
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From the book God Calling (www.twolisteners.org )
April 1 – Shut Out From God
Do you not see, My children, that you have not yet learned all? Soon, very soon, you will have mastered your lesson, and then you will truly be able to do all things through Me and My Strength. Did you not see it with My Disciples? Timid, faithless followers, and then, so soon, themselves leaders, healers, conquerors, through Me.
All knowledge was Mine, given Me of My Father, and Mine in manhood’s years on earth. You understand this, My children, I know you do.
Thousands of My servants have gone to their betrayal and death, and others, who knew Me not, with no agony before it.
Had I not been Son of God, bearing man’s weight of sin, voluntarily bearing it until of My own free will — for that moment’s horror, I was shut out from His sight with man, the sinner, for one short space — had I not been God, had not this been My suffering — then I was but a craven mortal.
“He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” John 14:12
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From the book God at Eventide (www.twolisteners.org )
March 31 – The Wrong Voice
I am the Great Teacher, so ready to explain the simplest lesson to the most ignorant.
It is not for you to seek everywhere explanations of Me and My Kingdom, its laws and its purposes.
Learn of Me. How often I would have spoken to some heart, but the voice of one too eager with explanations about Me crowded Me out.
When Andrew brought Simon to Me he was silent to let his brother learn of Me.
The reason for this crowding out of My Voice by My disciples is their unwillingness to believe that I do speak today. So, thinking they worship a silent Christ, they seek to make amends by their much speaking.
“To Thee our morning song of praise,
To Thee our evening prayer we raise.”
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From the book God at Eventide(www.twolisteners.org)
March 16 – Perfect Everything
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven.”
That was the aim I set before My disciples when I spoke to them on the Mount.
That is the aim I set before you and every follower of Mine today.
To achieve this you would be as God.
To aim at less would mean an unworthy standard.
To keep your gaze on this as your standard means that your eyes are fixed on the Heights of God, always directed above the difficulties and the lower aims and desires and standards of others round you.
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From the book God Calling (www.twolisteners.org )
March 2 – Spirit Words
“The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
Just as much as the words I spoke to My disciples of old. This is your reward for not seeking spirit-communication through a medium. Those who do it can never know the ecstasy, the wonder, of spirit-communication as you know it.
Life, Joy, Peace, and Healing are yours in very full measure. You will see this as you go on. At first, you can hardly credit the powers I am bestowing on you.
I sent My disciples out two by two, and gave them power over unclean spirits, and to heal all manner of diseases.
Wonderful indeed must it have been to St. Peter to feel suddenly that His Lord’s power was his.
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. – John 4:24
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Every One's Life. 