{"id":14485,"date":"2016-06-13T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=14485"},"modified":"2016-06-14T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:19:56","slug":"getting-there-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=14485","title":{"rendered":"Getting There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2026come, follow Me. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=Luke+18%3A22\" target=\"_blank\">Luke 18:22<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VgGP3g1rjA8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-sharing-button\"><strong>Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives.<\/strong> One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of our own individual temperament. We make our temperament and our natural desires barriers to coming to Jesus. Yet the first thing we realize when we do come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatsoever to our natural desires. We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans+12:1\">Romans 12:1<\/a>). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you\u2014 and His experiments always succeed. The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ. In the life of a saint there is this amazing Well, which is a continual Source of original life. The Spirit of God is a Well of water springing up perpetually fresh. A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original with others as He is with you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mobile-sharing-button\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mobile-sharing-button\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\">\n<div class=\"mobile-sharing-button\">If you abandon everything to Jesus, and come when He says, \u201cCome,\u201d then He will continue to say, \u201cCome,\u201d through you. You will go out into the world reproducing the echo of Christ\u2019s \u201cCome.\u201d That is the result in every soul who has abandoned all and come to Jesus.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Have I come to Him? Will I come <em>now<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>June 13 2016<\/p>\n<p>Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n<p>Good morning God and thank You for reminding us that You will work Your will through us\u2026 if and when we surrender. As Chambers says\u2026\u201d\u2026<em>If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you\u2014 and His experiments always succeed. The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.\u201d <\/em> Lord, I need Your help to let go of my rights to myself; my own ideas of what I want, need and my own ideas of what will make me happy and give me peace. Sometimes I am in such a rush to chase my own ideas that I miss surrendering\u2026until things go awry. Lord, please help me get to surrender early in my day and in my pursuit of daily bread and the peace that passes understanding.<\/p>\n<p>And God says\u2026\u201d<em>Your peace and daily bread are promised; seek first the kingdom of God, which is Jesus, and I will provide everything else you require. You forget the promise(s) when you take your eyes off of Jesus and put them on your wants and needs. Acknowledge the Lord in all your ways and do not rely on your own understanding or capability and I will make your paths straight. When you put your eyes on Jesus, and His atonement; namely the cross, a sense of wellbeing overtakes you and you know, just know, that all things will work together for your good. This sense of wellbeing will replace concern for your past and worry about tomorrow. Start here with surrender; every day, with every thought at every opportunity under captivity, and you will find the peace that passes understanding.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026come, follow Me. \u2014Luke 18:22 Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of our own individual temperament. We make our temperament and our natural desires barriers to coming to Jesus. Yet the first thing we realize when we do come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14495,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14485\/revisions\/14495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}