{"id":1879,"date":"2016-04-24T02:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T07:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twolisteners.org\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2016-04-24T02:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T07:30:50","slug":"april-24-i-go-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"April 24 &#8211; I Go Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1256 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/m_ea18.jpg\" alt=\"M_EA18\" width=\"409\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/m_ea18.jpg 3072w, https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/m_ea18-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/m_ea18-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/m_ea18-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">You can never perish, My children, because within you is the Life of Life. The Life that down the ages has kept My servants, in peril, in adversity, in sorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Once you are born of the Spirit, that is your Life\u2019s breath. You must never doubt, never worry, but step by step, the way to freedom must be trodden. See that you walk it with Me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">This means no worry, no anxiety, but it does not mean no effort. When My Disciples told Me that they had toiled all night and taken nothing, I did not fill the boat with fishes without effort on their part. No! My Command stood. \u201cLaunch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Their lives were endangered, the ship nearly sank, the help of their fellows had to be summoned, and there were broken nets to mend. Any one of these troubles might have made them feel My help was not for them. And yet as they sat on the shore and mended those nets, they would see My Love and Care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Man rises by effort<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The man who reaches the mountain height by the help of train or car has learned no climber\u2019s lesson. But remember this does not mean no Guide \u2014 this does not mean that My Spirit is not supplying wisdom and strength. How often, when sometimes you little know it, do I go before you to prepare the way, to soften the heart here, to overrule there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>\u201cAnd I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish.\u201d John 10:28<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can never perish, My children, because within you is the Life of Life. The Life that down the ages has kept My servants, in peril, in adversity, in sorrow. Once you are born of the Spirit, that is your Life\u2019s breath. You must never doubt, never worry, but step by step, the way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=1879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April 24 &#8211; I Go Before<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godcalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","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=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}