Category: GodCalling

Update on the changes coming to www.twolisteners.org

Beginning in July, emails will come to you through the MailChimp delivery services rather than from the WordPress site. This might mean that new emails go to your spam folder until you whitelist the new email address.

I will send a test email from the MailChimp service tomorrow, June 30.   Please check your inbox for that email.  If it is not there, please check your spam folder.

I am in the process of migrating the website to a new hosting company, and am also changing the email delivery system to avoid any future problems such as the ones we have recently experienced at WordPress.  I expect that migration to be invisible to you, with no down time.

One advantage to the new email systems will be that you will be able to choose which emails you want.  Your choices will be 

• God Calling (morning devotionals)
• God At Eventide (evening devotionals)

I’d like to know how many would be interested in re-starting the Thursday Treasures emails (a portion of classic Christian literature emailed out each Thursday).  I’ll offer it as a choice with the first emails that come out.  If we have enough interest in the Thursday Treasures, we’ll restart those as an option.

For those of you living across the dateline in the eastern hemisphere, we will be able to create emails to arrive a day earlier for you.  You’ll just choose between the WESTERN hemisphere (Americas – north, central, south) and the EASTERN hemisphere for your email delivery.

If you have suggestions to improve the website or the emails, please email them to me.  This is a great opportunity to try to work in your ideas and suggestions as we are in the process of rebuilding both the website and the email delivery process.

Blessings to you and yours this day and always,

Carol

 

 

December 31 – Jesus the Conqueror

Jesus. That is the Name by which you conquer. Jesus. Not as cringing suppliants but as those recognizing a friend, say My Name — Jesus. “Thou shalt call His Name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.”

And in that word “sins” read not only vice and degradation, but doubts, fears, tempers, despondencies, impatience, lack of Love in big and little things. Jesus. “He shall save His people from their sins.” The very uttering of the Name lifts the soul away from petty valley-irritations to mountain heights.

“He shall save His people from their sins.” Savior and Friend, Joy-bringer and Rescuer, Leader and Guide — Jesus. Do you need delivering from cowardice, from adverse circumstances, from poverty, from failure, from weakness?

“There is none other Name . . . whereby you can be saved” — Jesus. Say it often. Claim the Power it brings.

“Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is 
excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.” Psalm 148:13

December 30 – Fishers of Men

When you think of those of whom you read who are in anguish, do you ever think how My Heart must ache with the woe of it, with the anguish of it?

If I beheld the city and wept over it, how much more should I weep over the agony of these troubled hearts, over lives that seek to live without My sustaining Power.

“They will not come into Me that they might have Life.”

Live to bring others to Me, the only Source of Happiness and Heart-Peace.

“Say not ye, There are yet four months,
and then cometh harvest? behold, 
I say unto you, Lift up your eyes,
and look on the fields; for
they are white already to harvest.”
John 4:35

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December 29 -Work and Prayer

Work and prayer represent the two forces that will ensure your success. Your work and My work.

For prayer, believing prayer, is based on the certainty that I am working for you and with you and in you.

Go forward gladly and unafraid. I am with you. With men your task may be impossible, but with God all things are possible.

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and
to do of his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13

December 28 – Signs and Feelings

Our Lord, Thou art here. Let us feel Thy nearness.

I am here. Do not need feeling too much. To ask for feeling too much is to ask for a sign, and then the answer is the same as that I gave when on earth. “There shall no sign be given but the sign of the prophet Jonah. . . . For as Jonah was three days and three nights . . . so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Veiled from sight to the unbeliever. To the believer the veiling is only temporary, to be followed by a glorious Resurrection. . . .

What does it matter what you feel? What matters is what I am, was, and ever shall be to you — A Risen Lord. . . . the feeling that I am with you may depend upon any passing mood of yours — upon a change of circumstances, upon a mere trifle.

I am uninfluenced by circumstances. . . . My Promise given is kept. I am here, one with you in tender loving friendship.

“Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.” Psalm 119:151

December 27 – Glorious Work

I have stripped you of much, that it should be truly a life of well-being. Build up stone by stone upon a firm foundation, and that Rock is your Master — that Rock is Christ.

A life of discipline and a joyous fulfillment is to be yours . . . . Never lose sight of the glorious work to which you have been called.

Let no riches, no ease entice you from the path of miracle-working with Me upon which your feet are set. Love and Laugh. Trust and pray. Ride on now in a loving humility to victory.

“Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness
delivereth from death.” Proverbs 11:4

December 15 – My Shadow

Learn that each day must be lived in My Power, and in the consciousness of My Presence, even if the thrill of Joy seems to be absent. Remember that if sometimes there seems a shadow on your lives is not the withdrawal of My Presence. It is My shadow as I stand between you and your foes.

Even with your nearest and dearest there are the quiet days. You do not doubt their Love because you do not hear their laughter, and feel a thrill the Joy at their nearness.

The quiet grey days are the days for duty. Work in the calm certainty that I am with you

“That they should seek to the Lord….For in him we live, 
and move, and have our being.” Acts 17:27, 28

December 14 – Storms

Our loving Lord, we thank Thee for Thy marvelous keeping power.

There is no miracle so wonderful as the miracle of a soul being kept by My Power. Forces of evil batter and storm, but are powerless. Tempests rage unavailingly.

It is like a cool garden with sweet flowers and bees and butterflies and trees and playing fountains set in the midst of a mighty roaring city. Try to see your lives as that.

Not only as calm and unmoved, but as breathing fragrance, expressing beauty. Expect storms. Know this — you cannot be united in your great friendship and bond to do My work, and in your great Love for Me, and not excite the envy, hatred, and malice of all whom you meet who are not on My side.

Where does the enemy attack? The fortress, the stronghold, not the desert waste.

“Except the Lord to build the house, they labour in vain that build it: 
except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
Psalm 127:1

December 13 – Perpetual Guidance

Fullness of Joy. The Joy of Perpetual Guidance. The Joy of knowing that every detail of your lives is planned by Me, but planned with a wealth of tenderness and Love.

Wait for Guidance in every step. Wait to be shown My way. The thought of this loving leading should give you great Joy. All the responsibility of Life taken off your shoulders. All its business worry taken off your shoulders. It is indeed a Joy for you to feel so free and yet so planned for.

Oh! the wonder of this a God-guided life. To think anything impossible in such circumstances is to say it cannot be done by Me. To say that is surely a denial of Me.

“That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye
 also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship
 is with the Father, and with his Son.” 1 John 1:3

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December 12 – Care-free

Perfect love casteth out fear.

Love and fear cannot dwell together. By their very natures they cannot exist side by side. Evil is powerful, and fear is one of evil’s most potent forces.

Therefore a weak vacillating love can be soon routed by fear, whereas a perfect Love, a trusting Love, is immediately the Conqueror, and fear, vanquished, flees in confusion.

But I am Love because God is Love, and I and the Father are one. So the only way to obtain this perfect Love, that dispels fear, is to have Me more and more in your lives. You can only banish fear by My Presence and My Name.

Fear of the future — Jesus will be with us.

Fear of poverty — Jesus will provide. (And so to all the temptations of fear.)

You must not allow fear to enter. Talk to Me. Think of Me. Talk of Me. Love Me. And that sense of My Power will so possess you that no fear can possess your mind. Be strong in this My Love.

“And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall
give thee rest from  thy sorrow, and from thy
fear, and from the hard bondage  wherein
thou wast made to serve.” Isaiah 14:3