{"id":7769,"date":"2012-11-07T06:53:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2012-11-07T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:19:39","slug":"the-undetected-sacredness-of-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=7769","title":{"rendered":"The Undetected Sacredness of Circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>We know that all things work together for good to those who love God . . . \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=Romans+8%3A28\" target=\"_blank\">Romans 8:28<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --><!-- .entry-header --><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5AXD3Xq6Z6U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<section>The circumstances of a saint\u2019s life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you can\u2019t understand at all, but the Spirit of God understands. God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Never put yourself in front of your circumstances and say, \u201cI\u2019m going to be my own providence here; I will watch this closely, or protect myself from that.\u201d All your circumstances are in the hand of God, and therefore you don\u2019t ever have to think they are unnatural or unique. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Am I making the Holy Spirit\u2019s work difficult by being vague and unsure, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of intercession\u2014 utilizing the circumstances in which I find myself and the people who surround me. I must keep my conscious life as a sacred place for the Holy Spirit. Then as I lift different ones to God through prayer, the Holy Spirit intercedes for them.<\/p>\n<p>Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions can never be yours, \u201c. . . but the Spirit Himself makes intercession\u201d in each of our lives (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans+8:26\">Romans 8:26<\/a>). And without that intercession, the lives of others would be left in poverty and in ruin.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n<p>Lord over the past few weeks I have abandoned the idea that You are behind all things in my life, and consequently have been fighting hard against all the circumstances instead of trusting You. Somehow I forgot how to surrender. Well, it did not take long for me to \u201csuddenly\u201d get it. You would allow me to stay right there as long as I chose to handle my circumstances and difficulties by myself. I wonder why it takes so long sometimes. Thank You for once again showing me the need and opportunity to surrender this portion of my life to You as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>And God says\u2026\u201dYou know the scriptures\u2026\u201dseek first the Kingdom of heaven (which is Jesus) and all things shall be added to you\u2026delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart, \u2026.acknowledge the Lord in all your ways and He will make your paths straight.\u00a0 However, your circumstances imbed them in your heart. You must learn surrender just as you learned your independence as a child. Trust Me in everything, even trust me for the faith and hope you need to trust Me. I will provide all you need in this life, simply look to Me. And very often your circumstances lead you here to this place of surrender and remind you of this process.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<footer>\n<p id=\"bible-in-a-year-box\">\n<\/footer>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that all things work together for good to those who love God . . . \u2014Romans 8:28 The circumstances of a saint\u2019s life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you can\u2019t understand at [&hellip;]<\/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\/7769"}],"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=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/7777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}