{"id":7664,"date":"2012-10-16T20:09:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=7664"},"modified":"2012-10-17T05:08:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:08:02","slug":"the-key-of-the-greater-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=7664","title":{"rendered":"The Key of the Greater Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>. . . I say to you, he who believes in Me, . . . greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=John+14%3A12\" target=\"_blank\">John 14:12<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --><!-- .entry-header --><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LRIQxBJCRWU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"620\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<section>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+11:25\">Matthew 11:25<\/a>).<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prayer is <em>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 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+14:13\">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 <em>pray<\/em>. \u201cPray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+9:38\">Matthew 9:38<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>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<p>_____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Journal For Today-JDV<\/p>\n<p>October 17, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Lord, I do not know about greater works or simple works I just know what is and is not working for me right now.\u00a0 When things do not work out for the best, I wonder and worry\u2026am I being and living the right way? Are you trying to teach me something\u2026and do have to endure another \u201clesson\u201d that is really just one more way of saying\u2026I must learn one more thing? Can we avoid all these lessons?<\/p>\n<p><em>And God says\u2026\u201dYour lessons are your lessons, and you need all of them. And even as you are going through another set of lessons that may in fact be difficult, you should remember what I said in Jeremiah\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I know the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the Lord, \u201cplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Acknowledge Me In all your ways and I will make your paths straight. Seek first the Kingdom of God and everything else will take care of itself. \u00a0Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.\u201d When you seek Me first everything else falls in place.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . 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. 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