{"id":10053,"date":"2026-01-09T02:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:49:02","slug":"god-calling-jan-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=10053","title":{"rendered":"God Calling &#8211; Jan 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">January 9 \u2013 No Strain<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Be calm, no matter what may befall you. Rest in Me. Be patient, and let patience have her perfect work. Never think things overwhelming. How can you be overwhelmed when I am with you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Do not feel the strain of life.\u00a0 There is no strain for My children.\u00a0 Do you not see I am a Master Instrument-maker?\u00a0 Have I not fashioned each part? Do I not know just what it can bear without a strain? Would I, the maker of so delicate an instrument, ask of it anything that could destroy or strain?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">No! The strain is only when you are serving another master, the world, fame, the good opinion of men \u2013 or carrying two days\u2019 burden on the one day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Remember that it must not be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Psalm 37:7<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 9 \u2013 No Strain Be calm, no matter what may befall you. Rest in Me. Be patient, and let patience have her perfect work. Never think things overwhelming. How can you be overwhelmed when I am with you? Do not feel the strain of life.\u00a0 There is no strain for My children.\u00a0 Do you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=10053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God Calling &#8211; Jan 9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godcalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10054,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions\/10054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}