{"id":4583,"date":"2016-08-08T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twolisteners.org\/?page_id=4583"},"modified":"2016-08-08T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:53:13","slug":"god-calling-november-1-15","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?page_id=4583","title":{"rendered":"God Calling &#8211; November 1-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2122 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/m_go45.jpg\" alt=\"M_GO45\" width=\"176\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/m_go45.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/m_go45-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 1\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 1 &#8211; Prayer of Joy<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Petition\"><em><span style=\"color:#993300;\">Joy is the messenger, dear Lord, that bears our prayers to Thee<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Prayer can be like incense, rising ever higher and higher, or it can be like a low earth-mist clinging to the ground, never once soaring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">The Eye that sees all, the Ear that hears all, knows <i>every<\/i> cry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">But the prayer of real faith is the prayer of Joy, that sees and knows the heart of Love it rises to greet, and that is so sure of a glad response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\">And another angel came &#8230; having a golden censer; &#8230; and the smoke<br \/>\nof the incense, <\/span><span style=\"color:#008000;\">which came with the prayers of the saints,<br \/>\nascended up before <\/span><span style=\"color:#008000;\">God out of the angel&#8217;s hand.<br \/>\nRevelation 8:3,4<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 2\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 2 &#8211; Spend<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Give, give, give.\u00a0 Keep ever an empty vessel for Me to fill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">In future use all for Me, and give all <i> you<\/i> cannot use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">How poor die those who leave wealth!\u00a0 Wealth is to use, to spend, for Me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Use as you go. Delight to use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><span style=\"color:#008000;\">For the love of money is the root of all evil.\u00a0 1 Timothy 6:10<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 3\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 3 &#8211; No Limit<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Unlimited supply, that is My Law. Oh! the unlimited Supply, and oh! the poor, blocked channels!\u00a0 Will you feel this, that there is no limit to My Power?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">But man asks, and blasphemes in asking, such poor mean things.\u00a0 Do you not see how you wrong Me?\u00a0 I desire to give you a gift, and if you are content with the poor, and the mean, and the sordid, then you are insulting Me, the Giver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">&#8220;Ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.&#8221;\u00a0 How I can fulfill the promise is My Work, not yours, to consider &#8230; Have a big Faith, and expect big things, and you will get big things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss,<br \/>\nthat ye may consume it upon your lusts. \u00a0 James 4:3<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 4\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 4 &#8211; I Am Beside You<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Petition\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>In thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there<br \/>\nare pleasures for evermore.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; Psalm 16:11<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Do not seek to realize this fullness of Joy as the result of effort.\u00a0 This cannot be, any more than Joy in a human friend&#8217;s presence would come as the result of trying to force yourself to like to have that friend with you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Call often My Name, &#8220;Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">The calling of My Name does not really summon Me.\u00a0 I am beside you.\u00a0 But it removes, as it were, the scales from your eyes and you see Me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">It is, as it were, the pressure of a loved one&#8217;s hand, that brings an answering pressure, and a thrill of Joy follows, a real, and a joyful sense of nearness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><span style=\"color:#008000;\">Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and<br \/>\nuphold me with thy free Spirit.\u00a0 Psalm 51:12<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 5\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 5 &#8211; Second Advent<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Petition\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#993300;\"><em>Jesus, Comforter of all the sorrowing, help us to bring Thy comfort into every heart and life to which Thou art longing to express that comfort through us.\u00a0 Use us, Lord.\u00a0 The years may be many or few.\u00a0 Place us where we can best serve Thee, and influence most for Thee.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">The world would be brought to Me so soon, so soon, if only all who acknowledged Me as Lord, as Christ, gave themselves unreservedly to be used by Me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">I could use <i>each<\/i> human body as mightily as I used My own human body as a channel for Divine Love and Power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">I do not delay My second coming.\u00a0 My <i>followers<\/i> delay it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">If each lived for Me, by Me, in Me, allowing Me to live in him, to use him to express the Divine through him, as I expressed it when on earth, then long ago the world would have been drawn to Me, and I should have come to claim My own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">So seek, My children, to live, knowing no other desire but to express Me, and to show My Love to your world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><span style=\"color:#008000;\">He must increase, but I must decrease.\u00a0 John 3:30<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 6\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 6 &#8211; God in Action<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Power is not such an overwhelming force as it sounds, a something you call to your aid, to intervene in crises.\u00a0 No!\u00a0 <i>Power is just God in action.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Therefore whenever a servant of Mine, however weak he humanly may be, allows God to work through him, then all he does is <i>powerful<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Carry this thought with you through the days in which you seem to accomplish little.\u00a0 Try to see it is not you, but the Divine Spirit in you.\u00a0 All you have to do, as I have told you before, is to turn self out.\u00a0 A very powerful axe in a Master Hand accomplishes much.\u00a0 The same in the hand of a weak child, nothing.\u00a0 So see that it is not the instrument, but the Master Hand that wields the instrument, that tells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Remember no day is lost on which some Spiritual Truth becomes clearer.\u00a0 No day is lost which you have given to Me to use.\u00a0 My use of it may not have been apparent to you.\u00a0 Leave that to Me.\u00a0 Dwell in Me, and I in you, so shall ye bear much fruit. The fruit is not the work of the branches, though proudly the branches may bear it.\u00a0 It is the work of the Vine, that sends its life-giving sap through those branches.\u00a0 I am the Vine and ye are the branches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em> \u00a0seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em> his mighty power out of Egypt.\u00a0 Deuteronomy 4:37<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 7\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 7 &#8211; Self Kills Power<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Dwelling with Me, desiring only My Will and to do My work, My Spirit cannot fail to pass through the channel of your life into the lives of others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Many think it is humility to say they do little, and are of little value to My world.\u00a0 To think <i>that<\/i> is pride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">What if the pipe were to say, &#8220;I do so little, I wish I could be more use.&#8221;\u00a0 The reply would be &#8220;It is not you, but the water that passes through you, that saves and blesses.\u00a0 All you have to do is to see there is nothing to block the way so that the water cannot flow through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">The only block there can be in <i>your<\/i> channel is self.\u00a0 Keep that out, and know that My Spirit is flowing through.\u00a0 Therefore all must be the better for coming in contact with both of you, because you are channels.\u00a0 See this, and you will think it natural to know they are being helped, not by you, but by My Spirit flowing through you as a channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby<br \/>\nye are sealed unto the day of redemption.<br \/>\nEphesians 4:30<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 8\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 8 &#8211; Wipe The Slate<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Petition\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and<br \/>\nreaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark<br \/>\n&#8230; Philippians 3:13,14<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Forget the past. Remember only its glad days. Wipe the slate of your remembrance with Love, which will erase all that is not confirmed in Love.\u00a0 You must forget <i>your<\/i> failures, your failures and those of others.\u00a0 Wipe them out of the book of your remembrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">I did not die upon the Cross for man to bear the burdens of his sins himself.\u00a0 &#8220;Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">If you forget not the sins of others, and I bear them, then you add to My sorrows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>And when ye stand praying forgive, if you have aught against any:\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em> that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em> your trespasses.\u00a0 Mark 11:25<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 9\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 9 &#8211; Wonderful Friendship<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Think of Me as a Friend, but realize, too, the wonder of the Friendship.\u00a0 As soon as man gives Me not only worship and honor, obedience, allegiance, but loving understanding, then he becomes My Friend, even as I am his.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">What I can do for you. Yes! but also what we can do for each other.\u00a0 What you can do for Me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Your service becomes so different when you feel I count on your great friendship to do this or that for Me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Dwell more, dwell much, on this thought of you as My friends, and of the sweetness of My knowing where I can turn for Love, for understanding, for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.\u00a0 John 15:14<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 10\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 10 &#8211; New Forces<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Remember that life&#8217;s difficulties and troubles are not intended to arrest your progress, but to increase your speed.\u00a0 You must call new forces, new powers into action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Whatever it is must be surmounted, overcome.\u00a0 Remember this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">It is as a race. Nothing must daunt you. Do not let a difficulty conquer you.\u00a0 You must conquer it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">My strength will be there awaiting you.\u00a0 Bring all your thought, all your power, into action.\u00a0 Nothing is too <i>small<\/i> to be faced and overcome.\u00a0 To push small difficulties aside is to be preparing big troubles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Rise to conquer.\u00a0 It is the path of victory I would have you tread.\u00a0 There can be no failure with Me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">&#8220;Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding Joy &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,<br \/>\nand saved him out of all his troubles\u00a0 Psalm 34:6<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 11\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 11 &#8211; Heaven&#8217;s Colors<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Looking back you will see that every step was planned.\u00a0 Leave all to Me.\u00a0 Each stone in the mosaic fits into the perfect pattern, designed by the Master Artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">It is all so wonderful!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">But the colors are of Heaven&#8217;s hues, so that your eyes could not bear to gaze on the whole, until you are beyond the veil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">So, stone by stone, you see, and trust the pattern to the Designer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em> when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.\u00a0 Proverbs 4:12<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><a style=\"color:#800080;\" name=\"November 12\"><\/a>November 12 &#8211; The Voiceless Cry<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Petition\"><span style=\"color:#993300;\"><em>Jesus, hear us, and let our cry come unto Thee.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">That voiceless cry, that comes from anguished hearts, is heard above all the music of Heaven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">It is not the arguments of theologians that solve the problems of a questioning heart, but the cry of that heart to Me, and the certainty that I have heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em> my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.\u00a0 Psalm 17:1<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 13\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 13 &#8211; Every Problem Solved<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Man has such strange ideas of the meaning of My invitation &#8220;Come unto Me.&#8221;\u00a0 Too often has it been interpreted as an urge to pay a duty owed to a Creator or a debt owed to a Savior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">The &#8220;Come unto Me&#8221; holds in it a wealth of meaning far surpassing even that.\u00a0 &#8220;Come unto Me&#8221; for the solution of every problem, for the calming of every fear, for all you need &#8211; physical, mental, spiritual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Sick, come to Me for health.\u00a0 Homeless, ask Me for a home. Friendless, claim a friend.\u00a0 Hopeless, a refuge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">&#8220;Come unto Me&#8221; for everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em> \u00a0things you have need of, before ye ask him.\u00a0 Matthew 6:8<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 14\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 14 &#8211; Devious Ways<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Life is not easy, My children.\u00a0 Man has made of it not what My Father meant it to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Ways that were meant to be straight paths have been made by man into ways devious and evil, filled with obstacles and stones of difficulty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not;<br \/>\nI will lead them in paths\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>that they have not known:<br \/>\nI will make darkness light before them\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em> and crooked things straight.\u00a0 Isaiah 42:16<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><a name=\"November 15\"><\/a><span style=\"color:#800080;\">November 15 &#8211; By My Spirit<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Man is apt to think that once in time only was My Miracle-working Power in action.\u00a0 That is not so.\u00a0 Wherever man trusts wholly in Me, and leaves to Me the choosing of the very day and hour, then there is My miracle-working Power as manifest, as marvelously manifest today, as ever it was when I was on earth, as ever it was to set My Apostles free, or to work miracles of wonder and healing through them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Trust in Me. Have a boundless faith in Me, and you will see, and seeing, will give Me all the glory.\u00a0 Remember, and say often to yourselves, &#8220;not by might, nor by Power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Dwell much in thought upon all I accomplished on earth, and then say to yourselves, &#8220;He, our Lord, our Friend, could accomplish this now in our lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Apply these miracles to your present day need, and know that your Help and Salvation are sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em> with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Mark 16:20<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 1 &#8211; Prayer of Joy Joy is the messenger, dear Lord, that bears our prayers to Thee Prayer can be like incense, rising ever higher and higher, or it can be like a low earth-mist clinging to the ground, never once soaring. 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