{"id":4804,"date":"2011-06-13T05:12:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2011-06-13T05:31:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T13:31:37","slug":"getting-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"Getting There"},"content":{"rendered":"
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June\u00a013,\u00a02011<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
. . . come, follow Me \u2014Luke 18:22<\/div>\n
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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 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
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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.<\/p>\n

Have I come to Him? Will I come now<\/em>?<\/p>\n

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June 13, 2011<\/p>\n

Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n

It is with a measure of awareness that see a glimpse of my future; a very certain future. When I grasp the concept that all things work together for the good of those that love the Lord\u2026and I consider that God engineers all my circumstances, then there is no anxiety or fear, only surrender. When there is surrender, there is faith, love, peace, hope, joy and an eager anticipation. If I know this is true, and I do know this\u2026. then Lord how is it that I am often consumed by difficult circumstances instead of being at peace living in eager anticipation of what will occur next?<\/p>\n

And God says, \u201cWhenever you take your eyes off of Me and look around at the waves, or the storms around you; or the potential for waves and storms\u2026.you get drawn into them. When you are totally surrendered to Me and at peace, full of joy you know it NOT because your circumstances are always perfect. You are at peace because you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the God of the universe loves you and cares for you.\u00a0 You know that the God that would give His only Son for you, would not withhold any other good thing from you. Trust in Me, look for Me in all you say and do and seek to be a messenger of my blessings today. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June\u00a013,\u00a02011 . . . come, 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804"}],"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=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}