{"id":5526,"date":"2011-10-17T05:08:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2011-10-17T05:56:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:56:19","slug":"the-key-of-the-greater-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=5526","title":{"rendered":"The Key of the Greater Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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October <\/span>17, <\/span>2011<\/span><\/h2>\n

. . . I say to you, he who believes in Me, . . . greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father \u2014John 14:12<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Prayer does not equip us for greater works\u2014 prayer is the greater work. Yet we think of prayer as some commonsense exercise of our higher powers that simply prepares us for God\u2019s work. In the teachings of Jesus Christ, prayer is the working of the miracle of redemption in me, which produces the miracle of redemption in others, through the power of God. The way fruit remains firm is through prayer, but remember that it is prayer based on the agony of Christ in redemption, not on my own agony. We must go to God as His child, because only a child gets his prayers answered; a \u201cwise\u201d man does not (see Matthew 11:25<\/a>).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Prayer is the<\/em> battle, and it makes no difference where you are. However God may engineer your circumstances, your duty is to pray. Never allow yourself this thought, \u201cI am of no use where I am,\u201d because you certainly cannot be used where you have not yet been placed. Wherever God has placed you and whatever your circumstances, you should pray, continually offering up prayers to Him. And He promises, \u201cWhatever you ask in My name, that I will do . . .\u201d (John 14:13<\/a>). Yet we refuse to pray unless it thrills or excites us, which is the most intense form of spiritual selfishness. We must learn to work according to God\u2019s direction, and He says to pray<\/em>. \u201cPray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest\u201d (Matthew 9:38<\/a>).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There is nothing thrilling about a laboring person\u2019s work, but it is the laboring person who makes the ideas of the genius possible. And it is the laboring saint who makes the ideas of his Master possible. When you labor at prayer, from God\u2019s perspective there are always results. What an astonishment it will be to see, once the veil is finally lifted, all the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you have been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

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October 17, 2011<\/p>\n

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

Lord, thank you for the reminder that prayer is not a means to an end, it is the end itself.\u00a0 You know that I want the circumstances we face to change, that I want us to have life and life more abundantly, and so I pray, as I should. But You remind me in this devotional that prayer is an outcome as well, and I am to reach out to You and for You simply because prayer strengthens our communication and relationship, and is a natural byproduct of Jesus living through me.<\/p>\n

And God says\u2026\u201dPrayer is a way for you and Me to communicate and build our relationship. It is the foundation of our daily walk. Take time to simply pray without petitions. Reach out to Me to simply communicate. \u00a0Pray without ceasing and discover that your prayers have become a dialog, and the dialog has become a daily discussion that strengthens our connection and your reception and discernment. \u00a0And while the discussion and dialog is in end in itself, you will also discover a peace that passes all understanding.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 17, 2011 . . . I say to you, he who believes in Me, . . . greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father \u2014John 14:12 Prayer does not equip us for greater works\u2014 prayer is the greater work. Yet we think of prayer as some commonsense exercise […]<\/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\/5526"}],"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=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}