{"id":6937,"date":"2026-01-08T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twolisteners.org\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:48:08","slug":"god-calling-january-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=6937","title":{"rendered":"God Calling &#8211; January 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2673 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/twolistenersdevotionals.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/m_ea93.jpg\" alt=\"M_EA93\" width=\"248\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/m_ea93.jpg 3864w, https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/m_ea93-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/m_ea93-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"DayHeading\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\">January 8 \u2013 Love Bangs the Door<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Day\">Life with Me is not immunity <i>from<\/i> difficulties, but peace <i>in<\/i> difficulties.\u00a0 My guidance is often by <i>shut<\/i> doors. Love bangs as well as opens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Joy is the result of faithful trusting acceptance of My Will, when It seems <i>not<\/i> joyous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">St. Paul, my servant, learnt this lesson of the banged doors when he said \u201cour light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.\u201d\u00a0 Expect rebuffs until this is learned \u2013 it is the only way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Day\">Joy is the daughter of calm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Scripture\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>They that trust in the Lord shall be as<br \/>\nmount Zion, <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>which cannot be removed,<br \/>\nbut abideth for ever. Psalm 125:1<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 8 \u2013 Love Bangs the Door Life with Me is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.\u00a0 My guidance is often by shut doors. Love bangs as well as opens. Joy is the result of faithful trusting acceptance of My Will, when It seems not joyous. St. Paul, my servant, learnt this lesson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=6937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God Calling &#8211; January 8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godcalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937","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=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10993,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions\/10993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}