{"id":4777,"date":"2016-08-08T20:24:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twolisteners.org\/?page_id=4777"},"modified":"2016-08-08T20:24:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T01:24:45","slug":"god-at-eventide-january","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?page_id=4777","title":{"rendered":"God At Eventide &#8211; January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3865 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/e_go80.jpeg\" alt=\"E_GO80\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 1 &#8211; All Is Ready<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Write for all things are now ready.<\/p>\n<p>The world is waiting for My Message of Love, and Hope, and Cheer.\u00a0 The very unrest of the spirit is a sign.\u00a0 The turning from the husk of religion is a sign.<\/p>\n<p>Man is no longer lulled by empty phrases and promises of a better life hereafter.\u00a0 He must know Me before he would wish to spend Eternity with Me.\u00a0 He must know Me here in the storm where he needs strength and rest.<\/p>\n<p>He has been sleeping; now he has been shocked awake.\u00a0 Now he must find Me or fling defiance at Me or school himself into denial, or indifference.<\/p>\n<p>Reason and\u00a0argument avail\u00a0nothing.\u00a0 Only by the lives of My followers can man be helped; only by seeing Mine unmoved, at peace, joyful, in a world of sorrow, disillusionment, and mistrust.<\/p>\n<p>Your denial today will not be &#8220;I know not the man.&#8221;\u00a0 The world is indifferent as to whether you know Me or not.\u00a0No, it will be your failure to present Me in your life as I am &#8212; vital, sustaining, spirit-renewing, your All.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January\u00a02 &#8211; Your\u00a0Resolutions<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is\u00a0in union with\u00a0Me that you\u00a0receive strength to carry out your good resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Contact with Me brings power for the work I wish you to do, that work for which I know you to be most suited and which you only can do, and do so well.<\/p>\n<p>It is\u00a0in contact with Me that you are endued with the Grace that I alone can give, enabling you to minister acceptably to those to whom I send you, and those whom I bring to you.<\/p>\n<p>Even among the distractions and manifold interests of the world &#8212; live in My Presence, yet daily withdraw yourself to be alone with Me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 3 &#8211; Mutual Need<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Abide in Me and I in you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year dwell much upon this stupendous truth.<\/p>\n<p><em>You<\/em> need to abide in Me this year to share in the Spirit-life of the Universe, in its creative power and energy.\u00a0 Thus you are a part in God&#8217;s whole.<\/p>\n<p>But I must abide in you, for only so can I express My Love and Power and Truth through you interpreting them in deed, and look, and word.<\/p>\n<p>In these words of Mine you have My twofold nature.<\/p>\n<p>The Strong Protector!\u00a0so Strong to shield; and offering you, My guest, all provision you need.<\/p>\n<p>And then you have Me in My Humility, one with you, your close Companion, dwelling in you, and dependent on you.\u00a0 Think on these things.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 4 &#8211; Your Mandate<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Here in this evening hour I draw near to\u00a0you &#8212; and listen.\u00a0 Tell Me of the Peace you know in Me; of the tender confidence in Me that has brought Peace and Safety into your life.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow you will go back into the world with My message of Eternal Life.\u00a0 Truths that you are only just beginning fully to grasp, that are bringing you Vision and Joy, you will pass to others, that they may be saved the wasted years that lie behind you.\u00a0 Turn to them as you would\u00a0to one\u00a0following you along a dangerous road and warn them against the pitfalls in their way.<\/p>\n<p>Point out to them the beauties of <em>The Way<\/em>, the sunlit hills ahead, the sunset glories, the streams and flowers of My peaceful glades.<\/p>\n<p>Direct their attention from earth&#8217;s allures\u00a0or mirages\u00a0 to Me, your Companion of The Way.\u00a0 Tell them of your Joy in Me.\u00a0 That is your mandate from High Heaven.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 5\u00a0 &#8211; The Healing Hour<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As yet you can only dimly see what this eveningtime will mean for you.<\/p>\n<p>For a while you shed earth&#8217;s cares and frets, and know the uplift of soul that comes through planned Communion with Me.<\/p>\n<p>You are renewed, and that renewing is your safeguard from mental and spiritual disintegration.<\/p>\n<p>In this brief time you taste, in contact with Me, something of My Resurrection Life.\u00a0 It is the glorified Christ you know, and to know Him is to partake too of His Risen Life.<\/p>\n<p>Thus health, physical, mental, and spiritual, comes to you and flows from you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 6 &#8211; Land Of Promise<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Imagine the Hope of My Heart that day on the mountainside when I told My followers that to no throne on earth I led them; old forms and negations that had meant so much in the past were to be swept away; motives and impulses were to be all-important.<\/p>\n<p>By the thoughts of his heart was a man to be judged.\u00a0 Prayer was like a son appealing to a father.\u00a0 Love was to be the foundation, the Golden Rule.\u00a0 Tribal, even racial, distinctions were to be ignored and the claims of the whole great family of God were to be met.<\/p>\n<p>To such heights as they had never before scaled I led them, up to Peak-truths they had thought unscalable.<\/p>\n<p>What hopes I had of them as their wonder turned to Vision and they responded to My Message.<\/p>\n<p>What hopes I have today of each of you My Followers as you catch sight of your Land of Promise ahead.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 7 &#8211; Cleansing Light<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>I am the True Light that cometh into the world, and men love darkness rather than Light, because their deeds are evil.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Truly not all men desire My Light.\u00a0 Not all men would welcome its clear shining.<\/p>\n<p>Many shrink from its revelation, preferring the darkness that would hide their deeds, rather than the remorseless Light that would show the evil of which they are ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for Light, rejoice to have it, welcome its revelation, and so, when in your lives it has done its searching, cleansing work, then bear it yourselves gladly, triumphantly, out into a world that needs so sorely the Light of the World.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 8 &#8211; Ways Of Witness<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I call upon you to make Me known &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>By your unfailing trust in Me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By your joy, unrepressed\u00a0by the difficulties of the way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By your tender concern for the weak and the wandering.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By your acceptance of My Gift of Eternal Life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By your growth in Spiritual development, proof of that inner life, which alone can engender it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Make Me known, more and more, by your serenity, by unflinching adherence to Truth.<\/p>\n<p>Make Me known by My Spirit within and round you, your conduct and speech ever bearing witness to the Power and the Wonder of My Presence.<\/p>\n<p>So shall all men know that you are My disciple, and that your claim is never for the recognition of the self &#8212; but for Me, the Christ-in-you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 9 &#8211; A Love-Home<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hush earth&#8217;s desires that you miss not My Footfall.\u00a0 It brings the strength of a warrior and the eagerness of a Lover.<\/p>\n<p>Let your heart thrill with the glad, &#8220;He comes.&#8221;\u00a0 Forsake all thought but the thought of Me as I enter.\u00a0 Soul-rest and heart-comfort I bring.\u00a0 Forget all else.<\/p>\n<p>Let Me lift the burden from your shoulders, My burden, borne for you.\u00a0 Here in quiet, we will rest, while you are reinvigorated.<\/p>\n<p>Poor dwelling, you feel, for the King of Kings.\u00a0 Yet I see your Home of Love as Love has made it.\u00a0 I come from locked doors, where youth is trying to live without Me; where old age, ever refusing to answer My pleading and knocking, now hears Me no more, and sits silent and alone.<\/p>\n<p>Comfort Me, My children.\u00a0 Make of your hearts a Love-Home for the Man of Sorrows, still so often despised and rejected of men.\u00a0 Yet I would turn their sorrow into joy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 10 &#8211; How Self Dies<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hush your spirit still more in My Presence.\u00a0 Self dies, not by human combat, not necessarily by supplicatory prayer, but by the consciousness of My Presence, and of My Spirit-values.\u00a0 Thus self shrivels into lifelessness, into nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>It is so necessary to dwell with Me, to draw so close to Me in an understanding as complete as it is possible for man to realize.<\/p>\n<p>Do you not see now the need for the training and discipline I have enjoined on you?\u00a0 They are vital in that they attune your being to the consciousness of My Mind and Purpose.\u00a0 When this Mind is in you that is in Me you are able to penetrate the outer courts of the Temple, and in the very Holy of\u00a0Holies to grasp the meaning that lay behind all I said and did and was.<\/p>\n<p>Sacrifice all for this.\u00a0 Your work has to be inspired.\u00a0 Where can you find inspiration but in My Presence?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 11 &#8211; Your\u00a0Good News<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who bring glad tidings . . . that publish Peace.&#8221;\u00a0 When you are weary think that yours are the feet of those who bring glad tidings.<\/p>\n<p>This will rob your steps of weariness, will give a Joy and a spring to your walk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bringeth glad tidings.\u00a0 Publisheth Peace.&#8221;\u00a0 What a joyful mission.\u00a0 One of gladness and Peace.\u00a0 Never forget this, and the Joy of your message and mission will radiate from you gladdening and transforming.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 12 &#8211; Bright Shadows<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>He descended into hell . . . He ascended into Heaven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is good for man to know his Lord is ever with him through every danger, every change, every seeming chance.\u00a0 It is good to walk the dark waters with Me.<\/p>\n<p>I did not make the darkness.\u00a0 It was no artist-design to create a darkness which should make My Light seem the greater radiance.<\/p>\n<p>Willfulness and sin have caused earth&#8217;s shadows, but I am there to walk the dark places with you.\u00a0 So that even the darkest place may be illumined\u00a0by the Light of the\u00a0Sun of Righteousness.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 13\u00a0&#8211; Fight Evil Forces<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You are going to be a mighty force against evil because you will be ever-increasingly the agent of Divine Power.\u00a0 Think, when this is so, how could you for one moment imagine that evil could leave you alone?\u00a0 It is to the advantage of evil to thwart you.<\/p>\n<p>Think how those who care for you in the Unseen watch to see you conquer in My strength for My Glory.<\/p>\n<p>The great battles of your world are fought in the Unseen.\u00a0 Fight there your battles and win.\u00a0 More than conquerors through Him Who loves you.\u00a0 Fight with the whole armor of God, ready prepared for you.<\/p>\n<p>Victors through Me.\u00a0 Press on. Victory is in sight.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 14 &#8211; How Joy Comes<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Joy that follows awareness of Guidance has ever been the upholding Joy of My followers.<\/p>\n<p>It is the result of desiring My Will only, in every detail, and then the realization of the wonderful way I can act for you <em>when you leave the planning to Me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Truly all things, every detail\u00a0in each day, do work together for good to those who love Me.\u00a0 My miracle-working power can become operative when there is no &#8220;kicking against the pricks,&#8221; no\u00a0thwarting\u00a0of My Will.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you walk here on earth, or are free from earth&#8217;s limitations in My Heaven, it is Heaven to walk with Me.\u00a0 Man has sought to describe Heaven in terms of music and song.\u00a0 That is but his endeavor to express the ecstasy he knows on earth in Communion with Me, and to anticipate its magnified intensity in Heaven.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 15 &#8211; Where Danger Lies<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am beside you &#8212; the eager Listener, so ready to hear your plea, so ready to say all that your heart needs.<\/p>\n<p>Live more with Me apart, and so there will come an ever-increasing helpfulness to others.<\/p>\n<p>Heart-poise, mental balance, spiritual strength, will be yours in ever more abundant measure.\u00a0 Never feel that you can help others unaided by Me, for therein lies danger.<\/p>\n<p>Your self-importance is destructive of helpfulness, devitalizing because <em>your<\/em> strength has such limitations.\u00a0 Mine is limitless.<\/p>\n<p>Grow more dependent upon Me, yet more assured that you can do all things through Me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 16 &#8211; The Foe Within<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Never lose heart.\u00a0 Kill the proud self as you go on, for on that dead self you rise.<\/p>\n<p>On ever with Me.\u00a0 Do not let earth&#8217;s frets disturb you.\u00a0 Since you cannot follow Me and indulge self, at all costs turn self out directly its claims disturb; so only can you keep spiritual calm.<\/p>\n<p>Not your circumstances but your <em>self <\/em>is the enemy.\u00a0 A man&#8217;s foes are those of his own household.<\/p>\n<p>Do others blame you falsely?\u00a0 I was reviled but I reviled not again.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 17 &#8211; Great Souls<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am here.\u00a0 Realize My Presence.\u00a0 My love surrounds you; be filled with My Joy.<\/p>\n<p>You are being truly guided though not until you are content to be led as little children do <em>you<\/em> really live fully in the Kingdom of Heaven .<\/p>\n<p>Life with Me is of child-like simplicity.\u00a0 Simple souls are the great souls, for in simplicity there is majesty.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 18 &#8211; Joy Of Meeting<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So many think of prayer as petition only.\u00a0\u00a0 It IS petition.\u00a0 &#8220;In everything by prayer and supplication let your requests be made known unto Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But prayer is also a glad turning to meet Me for the joy of the meeting, for the rapture of My Presence.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer, too, is preparation for tomorrow&#8217;s return to those who need you, those to whom My love goes out from you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 19 &#8211; Comfort\u00a0And Joy<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am with you.\u00a0 I will help you.\u00a0 Through suffering to health, through sorrow to joy, through pain to ease, through night to day &#8212; you shall be led and comforted.<\/p>\n<p>Without previous experience of dawn and day none could dream that the glorious dawn and fullness of day could follow the blackest night.<\/p>\n<p>Regard this experience not as darkness but\u00a0as dawn.\u00a0 The first faint glimmers of light are following the black night through which you have passed.\u00a0 The full day is not yet.\u00a0 But hail the DAWN with Me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 20 &#8211; Now Is The Victory<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am with you.\u00a0 I am delivering you.\u00a0 But look for deliverance not from circumstances alone, but deliverance from the self-ties that bind you to earth, and that hinder your entrance into the kingdom of the service in which there is perfect freedom.\u00a0 All is well.<\/p>\n<p>You shall rise to newness of Life.\u00a0 You cannot fail to rise as you free yourself from the toils and sins and failures that bind you to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>No past sin can enchain you.\u00a0 You look to Me and are saved.\u00a0 They are all forgiven.\u00a0 Conquer your faults with My Strength now, and nothing can prevent you from rising, nothing that is past.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 21 &#8211; Exceeding Great Reward<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>I am thy shield\u00a0and thine exceeding great reward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shield from the storm of life.\u00a0 Shield from even the consequences of your own faults and failings.\u00a0 Shield from your weakness.\u00a0 Shield from worry.\u00a0 Shield from fear and sorrow.\u00a0 Shield from the world with its\u00a0allure and temptations.\u00a0 Not only your shield, but your exceeding great reward.<\/p>\n<p>Not the reward of perfection in your life, for that you could not win here.\u00a0 Not the reward of what you do, or of any merit in yourself.\u00a0 Only the result, or reward of your questing.\u00a0 The satisfaction of your hunger to find me.\u00a0 Exceeding great reward.<\/p>\n<p>Your reward is the same as that of the\u00a0greatest saint\u00a0who has ever lived.\u00a0 Given not as a trophy of victory, not as a recognition of virtue, but given because you are the seeker, and I, your Lord, am the Sought.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 22 &#8211; I Know All<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am the sharer of the secrets of your life.\u00a0 How rich in blessing each experience may be if shared with Me alone.<\/p>\n<p>How often, by much speaking and self-indulgent sharing with others, a\u00a0jewel or rare beauty may be robbed of its priceless worth to your soul.\u00a0 A bud of Joy and sweet perfume too rashly forced to premature bloom will lose its purity and fragrance.<\/p>\n<p>Even the sharing of past sins and failures may mean self for the time in the foreground, or vitality, so needed for the present, lost.\u00a0 Dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><strong>January 23 &#8211; Fear No Evil <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>I am the Lord of your life, Guardian of your inmost being, the Christ of God.\u00a0 Sheltered in My Hidden Place no harm can befall you.\u00a0 Pray to know this.<\/p>\n<p>Let this Truth become a part of your very consciousness, that where I am no evil can be, and that therefore when you abide in Me and I in you no evil can touch you.<\/p>\n<p>Spiritual Truths take sometimes many years to learn, sometimes they come in a flash of sudden revelation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 24 &#8211; Have You?<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am teaching you, but not always Spiritual Truths that gladden you.<\/p>\n<p>Often, too often, there has to be the word of reproof as I tell you of commands of Mine not obeyed, of resolutions made when in contact with Me that you have failed to keep, of work done for Me in no spirit\u00a0of Love and Joy, of failure to\u00a0obtain supply because your attitude (often not your heart)\u00a0 questioned My <em>unlimited <\/em>supply.<\/p>\n<p>I teach no easy lesson.<\/p>\n<p>I choose no flower-bordered path in which to walk with you, but take heart that I <em>do<\/em> walk with you as with Peter of old even when he denied Me.<\/p>\n<p><em>He<\/em> had seen his sin.\u00a0 He went out and wept bitterly.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 25 &#8211; My Compensations<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am listening.\u00a0 Picture Me, your Lord.\u00a0 Not as one deaf to your entreaties, but rather as One straining with an intensity of Love to catch the first\u00a0faint cry from one of His children.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the case of those who love Me, how often do I listen in vain for the spontaneous words of Love?<\/p>\n<p>Do not cry to Me only when cares press and you are weary.\u00a0 Speak to Me often.\u00a0 Share with Me all the little happenings, all the frets, all the little glad things.<\/p>\n<p>These not only draw us more closely to each other, but they are to Me compensations for the neglect I suffer from My world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 26 &#8211; The Healing Life<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am your Lord, trust Me in all.\u00a0 Never doubt My keeping Power.\u00a0 Behold Me, the Lord of your life.\u00a0 Gain strength from Me.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that Healing, Divine Healing, is not so much a question of praying on your part, and of granting on Mine, as of living with Me, thinking of Me, sharing My Life.\u00a0 That contact too makes you whole.\u00a0 Go forward gladly, go forward unafraid.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 27 &#8211; Help For All<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I have not promised My Help to the virtuous only.\u00a0 To the sinner who turns to Me, to the\u00a0saint who lives with Me, to both\u00a0alike My miracle working Power is manifested.<\/p>\n<p>Help, temporal as well as spiritual, truly I bestow, not as a reward of goodness but as a fulfillment of My pledge made to all who believe in Me.<\/p>\n<p>But when one turns to Me I at once plan the rescue craved.\u00a0 If that one hearing My plan, learning\u00a0of My Purpose, should fail to do his appointed task in that plan,\u00a0how can My healing of physical, spiritual, or temporal disharmony be manifested?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 28 &#8211; Your Defender<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am the Gift of God to man.\u00a0 Only so was it possible for man to know God the Father.\u00a0 Only so was it possible for man to know that he had ever an Advocate with God &#8212; the Sinless Christ.<\/p>\n<p>There is always One Who understands your case, Whose appeal cannot fail to be heard.\u00a0 He has the right of Sonship.\u00a0 He has a right to plead for you.<\/p>\n<p>If he can plead for offending man, undertaking full responsibility for him, what better Advocate could you have?\u00a0 He knows.\u00a0 He has seen the tears of sorrow, the heartache and temptation.\u00a0 He can plead as none other.<\/p>\n<p>His own temptation was so real that, conqueror as He was, He can yet feel\u00a0the tenderest pity for the vanquished.\u00a0 He knows how seeming fair evil can appear, and He can estimate the added burden of tainted blood, inherited weakness and sin.<\/p>\n<p>He gave His only Begotten Son.\u00a0 This GREAT GIFT AM I, your Friend, your Companion.\u00a0 Leave all to Me, your Advocate, trained during My years on earth to plead, never for Myself, but for every one who rests his cause in My Hands.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 29 &#8211; Overcomers<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Study the &#8220;Overcomeths&#8221; in the Revelation to My servant John, and you will see the tender intimacy with Me promised as a result of overcoming.\u00a0 To believe is not enough.\u00a0 To believe in Me does truly involve the possession of Eternal Life, but that is a trust to <em>use<\/em> as truly as the talent of My story.<\/p>\n<p>It is not only a something to be <em>enjoyed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Eternal life is a refreshing, reforming, enriching, uprooting, ennobling Power to be <em>employed<\/em> to the full by those to whom I entrust it.<\/p>\n<p>In this My servants so often fail, and so miss the wonder of Communion with Me.\u00a0 Guard this Truth.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 30 &#8211; More Love<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I come, a truly willing guest.\u00a0 Love always draws.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that.\u00a0 Love is the magnetic Power of the Universe.\u00a0 God is LOVE, the Power that draws all men by various ways unto Himself.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that your Love too, being of God, has the same magnetic Power.\u00a0 Love, and you will draw to you those whom you desire to help.<\/p>\n<p>When you fail to do so, search your life.\u00a0 Love is deficient.\u00a0 More love is necessary.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 31 &#8211; The Evening Call<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Softly at even, comes the footfall of your Master.\u00a0 My day has been long and weary.\u00a0 Hearts that I have yearned over and longed for still withstand Me.<\/p>\n<p>I see the aged, desolate without Me.\u00a0 I see the disappointment of men and women, who in Me would find heart-satisfaction which others cannot give them.\u00a0 I see\u00a0youth crowding Me out of its work-filled, pleasure-filled days.\u00a0 And yet I wait.\u00a0 I knock,\u00a0I plead, I call, unheard, unheeded, unwanted.<\/p>\n<p>As I was the link between the Father and men, so now must My followers be the links between man and Me.<\/p>\n<p>Human Love, material aid, human understanding, and friendship must bind those for whom I yearn.<\/p>\n<p>Channels through which My help can flow to man truly you must be, but also the means through which man finds his groping way to Me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EVENING AND MORNING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>O let me hear Thee speaking<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In accents clear and still,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Above the storms of passion,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The murmurs of self-will.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>O\u00a0speak to reassure me,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To hasten, or control;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O speak, and make me listen,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thou Guardian of my soul!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 1 &#8211; All Is Ready Write for all things are now ready. The world is waiting for My Message of Love, and Hope, and Cheer.\u00a0 The very unrest of the spirit is a sign.\u00a0 The turning from the husk of religion is a sign. Man is no longer lulled by empty phrases and promises &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?page_id=4777\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God At Eventide &#8211; January<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4777","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}