{"id":1892,"date":"2016-04-26T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twolisteners.org\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2016-04-26T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T07:30:08","slug":"april-26-i-make-the-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"April 26 &#8211; I Make The Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1264 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/m_ea2-16.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"214\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Never doubt. Have no fear. Watch the faintest tremor of fear, and stop all work, everything, and rest before Me until you are joyful and strong again<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Deal in the same way with all tired feelings. I was weary too, when on earth, and I separated Myself from My Disciples, and sat and rested on the well. Rested \u2014 and then it was that the Samaritan woman was helped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Times of withdrawal for rest always precede fresh miracle-working.\u00a0 Learn of Me.\u00a0 To accept the limitations of human flesh is to be subject, except as far as sin is concerned, to the same conditions as man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I had to teach renewal of Spirit \u2014 force rest of body to My Disciples. Then, as your Example, I lay with My Head on a pillow, asleep in the boat. It was not, as they thought, indifference. They cried, \u201cMaster, carest thou not that we perish?\u201d and I had to teach them that ceaseless activity was no part of My Father\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">When Paul said, \u201cI can do all things through Christ which strengthens me,\u201d he did not mean that he was to do all things and then rely on Me to find strength. He meant that for all I told him to do he could rely on My supplying the strength.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">My Work in the world has been hindered by work, work, work. Many a tireless nervous body has driven a spirit. The spirit should be the master always, and just simply and naturally use the body as need should arise. Rest in Me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Do not seek to work for Me. Never make opportunities. Live with Me and for Me. I do the work and I make the opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>\u201cI can of mine own self do nothing.\u201d John 5:30<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never doubt. Have no fear. Watch the faintest tremor of fear, and stop all work, everything, and rest before Me until you are joyful and strong again Deal in the same way with all tired feelings. I was weary too, when on earth, and I separated Myself from My Disciples, and sat and rested on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=1892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April 26 &#8211; I Make The Opportunities<\/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-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godcalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","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=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}