servant @ TWO LISTENERS

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 18 - Dazzling Glory

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 
 
2 Corinthians 3:18
Arise, shine; for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
Isaiah 60:1

The glory of the Lord is the Beauty of His Character.  It is risen upon you when you realize it, even though on earth you can do so only in part.

The Beauty of the Purity and Love of God is too dazzling for mortals to see in full.

The Glory of the Lord is also risen upon you when you reflect that Glory in your lives, when in Love, Patience, Service, Purity, whatever it may be, you reveal to the world a something of the Father, an assurance that you have been with Me, your Lord and Savior.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 18 - Joy and Courage

Trust in Me.  Do more than trust.  Joy in Me.  If you really trust, you cannot fail to Joy.  The wonder of My Care, Protection, and Provision is so transcendently beautiful, as your trust reveals it to you, that your whole heart must sing with the Joy of it.

It is that Joy that will, and does, renew your youth.  That source of your Joy and Courage.

Truly did I not know what I was enjoining when I said, “Love and Laugh.”  But — your attitude must be right, not only with Me, but with those around you.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 17 - Quiet Lives

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Isaiah 12:3
“Well done, thou good and faithful servant …  enter into the joy of thy Lord.”  
Matthew 25:21

These words are whispered in the ears of many whom the world would pass by unrecognizing.  Not to the great, and the world-famed, are these words said so often, but to the quiet followers who serve Me unobtrusively, yet faithfully, who bear their cross bravely, with a smiling face to the world.  Thank Me for the quiet lives.

These words speak not only of the passing into that fuller Spirit Life.  Duty faithfully done for Me does mean entrance into a Life of Joy – My Joy, the Joy of your Lord.  The world may never see it, the humble, patient, quiet service, but I see it, and My reward is not earth’s fame, earth’s wealth, earth’s pleasures, but the Joy Divine.

Whether here, or there, in the earth-world, or in the spirit-world, this is My reward. Joy.  The Joy that carries an exquisite thrill in the midst of pain and poverty and suffering.  That Joy of which I said no man could take it from you.  Earth has no pleasure, no reward, that can give man that Joy.  It is known only to My lovers and My friends.

This Joy may come, not as the reward of activity in My service.  It may be the reward of patient suffering, bravely borne.

Suffering, borne with Me, must in time bring Joy, as does all real contact with Me.  So live with Me in that Kingdom of Joy , My Kingdom, the Gateway into which may be service, it may be suffering.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 17 - Union With God

True religion is that which binds the soul to God, and supplicatory prayer binds the soul less than any other form of approach.

It is necessary, how necessary, but how often it can fail to bind truly.  Meditation and Communion are of infinitely more value.

Meditation is man’s line thrown out.  It links the soul to God.  Communion is God’s line thrown out.  It draws and unites the soul to Him.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 16 - Union Is Power

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:8
For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.  Matthew 18:20

Claim that promise always.  Know it true that when two of My lovers meet I am the Third.  Never limit that promise.

When you two are together in My Name, united by one bond in My Spirit, I am there.  Not only when you meet to greet Me, and to hear My Voice.

Think what this means in Power.  It is again the lesson of the Power that follows two united to serve Me.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 16 - All Are Worthy

Treat all as those about whom I care.

You would visit the poor, the sick or those in prison, knowing full well I would see it as done unto Me.

I want you now to go still further along the way of my Kingdom.  You contact many who are not poor, not sick, not in prison.

They may be opposed to you.  They may disregard much that you consider of value, they may not seem to need your help.  Can you treat these, too, as you would wish to treat Me? They may be in need greater than the others you long to aid.

To you their aims may seem unworthy, their self-seeking may antagonize you.  When I said, “Judge not,” was I not including them too?

Can you limit My words to suit your own inclinations?

This is not an easy task I set you, but your way is the Way of Obedience.  I did not suggest to My followers one they could take or not as they willed.  My “Judge not” was imperative, and a new commandment I gave unto them that they should love.

For those who do not yet name Me Lord, Love is the only magnet that will draw them to Me.

Be true, be strong, be loving.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 15 - By My Spirit

And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.

Mark 16:20
Man is apt to think that once in time only was My Miracle-working Power in action.  That is not so.  Wherever man trusts wholly in Me, and leaves to Me the choosing of the very day and hour, then there is My miracle-working Power as manifest, as marvelously manifest today, as ever it was when I was on earth, as ever it was to set My Apostles free, or to work miracles of wonder and healing through them.

Trust in Me. Have a boundless faith in Me, and you will see, and seeing, will give Me all the glory.  Remember, and say often to yourselves, “not by might, nor by Power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord.”

Dwell much in thought upon all I accomplished on earth, and then say to yourselves, “He, our Lord, our Friend, could accomplish this now in our lives.”

Apply these miracles to your present day need, and know that your Help and Salvation are sure.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 15 - Sharing With Me

Not by life’s difficulties and trials are you trained and taught as much as by the times of withdrawal to be alone with Me.

Difficulties and trials alone are not remedial, are not of spiritual value.

That value is only gained by contact with Me.  Joy shared with Me, or sorrow and difficulty shared with Me, both can prove of great spiritual value, but that is gained by the sharing with Me.  Share all with Me.

Remember in true friendship sharing is mutual, so as you share with Me, do I in ever-increasing measure share with you — My Love, My Grace, My Joy, My Secrets, My Power.  My Manifold Blessings.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 14 - Devious Ways

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths  that they have not known:
I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. 

Isaiah 42:16

Life is not easy, My children.  Man has made of it not what My Father meant it to be.Ways that were meant to be straight paths have been made by man into ways devious and evil, filled with obstacles and stones of difficulty.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners
View this email in your browser

November 14 - Joy Is Yours

The future is not your concern, that is Mine.  The past you have handed back to Me, and you have no right to dwell on that.

Only the present is My gift to you, and of that only each day as it comes.  But, if unto that day you crowd past sorrows and resentments and failures, as well as the possible anxieties of the years that may be left to you here — what brain and spirit could bear that strain.

For this I never promised My Spirit and Comfort and Help.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you subscribed at our website www.twolisteners.org

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 13 - Every Problem Settled

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what  things you have need of, before ye ask him. 

Matthew 6:8

Man has such strange ideas of the meaning of My invitation “Come unto Me.”  Too often has it been interpreted as an urge to pay a duty owed to a Creator or a debt owed to a Savior.

The “Come unto Me” holds in it a wealth of meaning far surpassing even that.  “Come unto Me” for the solution of every problem, for the calming of every fear, for all you need – physical, mental, spiritual.

Sick, come to Me for health.  Homeless, ask Me for a home. Friendless, claim a friend.  Hopeless, a refuge.“Come unto Me” for everything.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners
November 13 - A Lonely Road

To Me each one of My children is an individual with varying characteristics and varying needs.  To one and all the way to the highest must be a lonely road, as far as human help and understanding are concerned.

None other can feel the same needs and desires, or explain the inner self in the same way.  That is why man needs Divine Companionship.  The Companionship that alone can understand each heart and need.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners
November 12 - The Voiceless Cry

Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Psalm 17:1
Jesus, hear us, and let our cry come unto Thee.

That voiceless cry, that comes from anguished hearts, is heard above all the music of Heaven.

It is not the arguments of theologians that solve the problems of a questioning heart, but the cry of that heart to Me, and the certainty that I have heard.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 12 - Heaven's Music

To glorify Me is to reflect, in praise, My character in your lives.  To mount up with wings as eagles, higher and higher, to soar ever nearer to Me.

To praise Me is to sing, to let your hearts thrill.  To glorify Me is to express exactly the same, but through the medium of your whole beings, your whole lives.  When I say, “Rejoice, rejoice,” I am training you to express this in your whole natures.

That is the Music of Heaven, the glorifying Me through sanctified lives and devoted hearts of Love.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.


God Calling    by Two Listeners
November 12 - The Voiceless Cry

Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Psalm 17:1
Jesus, hear us, and let our cry come unto Thee.

That voiceless cry, that comes from anguished hearts, is heard above all the music of Heaven.

It is not the arguments of theologians that solve the problems of a questioning heart, but the cry of that heart to Me, and the certainty that I have heard.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 12 - Heaven's Music

To glorify Me is to reflect, in praise, My character in your lives.  To mount up with wings as eagles, higher and higher, to soar ever nearer to Me.

To praise Me is to sing, to let your hearts thrill.  To glorify Me is to express exactly the same, but through the medium of your whole beings, your whole lives.  When I say, “Rejoice, rejoice,” I am training you to express this in your whole natures.

That is the Music of Heaven, the glorifying Me through sanctified lives and devoted hearts of Love.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

Thursday Treasures from Two Listeners
Discipline - Part 2 of 2
From The Way by E. Stanley Jones

Click here to download the PDF

Excerpt from Preface:  “This book is designed to put our feet upon the Way.  It is not an argument, but an adventure.  It is an experiment in living.  If it doesn’t work, don’t take it.  If it does work, bet your very life upon it.  If you do, you will not be working in the dark.  As soon as you really get hold of it – or better, when it gets hold of you – you will know that this is the Way.  Everything else will become irrelevant.  This book begins, not with those who have attained, but with those who want to attain.”

-------------------------------------

Please note this is copyrighted material. 
We are very thankful to Abingdon Press and the
 E. Stanley Jones Foundation for granting us permission
to share these excepts with our readers.

From The Way – E. Stanley Jones 1946, renewed 1973 Abingdon Press.
 All rights reserved.  Used by permission.

https://www.cokesbury.com/The-Way-1-2?refq=the%20way%20e.%20stanley%20jones

To read more about E. Stanley Jones, visit the website:  https://www.estanleyjonesfoundation.com/

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 11 - Heaven's Colors

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. 

Proverbs 4:12

Looking back you will see that every step was planned.  Leave all to Me.  Each stone in the mosaic fits into the perfect pattern, designed by the Master Artist.

It is all so wonderful!

But the colors are of Heaven’s hues, so that your eyes could not bear to gaze on the whole, until you are beyond the veil.So, stone by stone, you see, and trust the pattern to the Designer.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 10 - New Forces

 
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles 
 
Psalm 34:6
Remember that life’s difficulties and troubles are not intended to arrest your progress, but to increase your speed.  You must call new forces, new powers into action.

Whatever it is must be surmounted, overcome.  Remember this.

It is as a race. Nothing must daunt you. Do not let a difficulty conquer you.  You must conquer it.

My strength will be there awaiting you.  Bring all your thought, all your power, into action.  Nothing is too small to be faced and overcome.  To push small difficulties aside is to be preparing big troubles.

Rise to conquer.  It is the path of victory I would have you tread.  There can be no failure with Me.

“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding Joy …”

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 10 - Rest for the Weary

This weariness must compel you to sink back, a tired child, to rest in My Love.  There remain, until that Love so permeates your being that you are supported by it, and, so strengthened, arise.

Until you feel that this is so, remain inactive, conscious of My Presence.  Yours is a big work, and you must refresh yourself and only approach it again after periods of repose.

The activity on the Spirit-plane is so great, so wonderful, that but for the times of enforced rest and prayer, you would be stirred to an emotional activity on the physical plane that defeats My ends.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 9 - Wonderful Friendship

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 
John 15:14

Think of Me as a Friend, but realize, too, the wonder of the Friendship.  As soon as man gives Me not only worship and honor, obedience, allegiance, but loving understanding, then he becomes My Friend, even as I am his.

What I can do for you. Yes! but also what we can do for each other.  What you can do for Me.

Your service becomes so different when you feel I count on your great friendship to do this or that for Me…

Dwell more, dwell much, on this thought of you as My friends, and of the sweetness of My knowing where I can turn for Love, for understanding, for help.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.
 

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 9 - The Glowing Heart

 
Think of the walk to Emmaus, think of the feast of Revelation that followed, of the understanding Friendship that was the result.  How much I, their Lord, their Risen Lord, had explained to My two disciples during that walk.  So much that was mystery to them became clear as we went along the way.

Yet not as their Master did I become known, until in the Breaking of Bread I revealed Myself.  In speaking of Me afterwards they said, “Did not our hearts burn within us when He talked with us by the way?”

So do not fret if all that I can be to you is not yet revealed.  Walk with Me, talk with Me, invite Me to be your guest, and leave to Me My moment of self-Revelation.  I want each day to be a walk with Me.

Do you not feel, even now, your hearts burn within you, as if with the glow of anticipation?

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 8 - Wipe the Slate

And when ye stand praying forgive, if you have aught against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 
Mark 11:25

But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark
… Philippians 3:13,14

Forget the past. Remember only its glad days. Wipe the slate of your remembrance with Love, which will erase all that is not confirmed in Love.  You must forget your failures, your failures and those of others.  Wipe them out of the book of your remembrance.

I did not die upon the Cross for man to bear the burdens of his sins himself.  “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.”If you forget not the sins of others, and I bear them, then you add to My sorrows.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.


God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 8 - Your Life LIne

 
Think of the strong life-line of Faith and Power.  This I have told you is your line of rescue.

It means constant communication between us.

You pray for Faith.  I give you Faith.  This enables you to test the Power I give, as your Faith goes back to me in ever-increasing strength.  My Power and your Faith ever interchanging.  The one calling forth the other, each dependent upon the other, until My Faith in you is justified indeed by the Power you exercise.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 7 - Self Kills Power

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4:30

Dwelling with Me, desiring only My Will and to do My work, My Spirit cannot fail to pass through the channel of your life into the lives of others.

Many think it is humility to say they do little, and are of little value to My world.  To think that is pride.

What if the pipe were to say, “I do so little, I wish I could be more use.”  The reply would be “It is not you, but the water that passes through you, that saves and blesses.  All you have to do is to see there is nothing to block the way so that the water cannot flow through.”The only block there can be in your channel is self.  Keep that out, and know that My Spirit is flowing through.  Therefore all must be the better for coming in contact with both of you, because you are channels.  See this, and you will think it natural to know they are being helped, not by you, but by My Spirit flowing through you as a channel.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners
View this email in your browser

November 7 - Lost Opportunities

Think of one who has wrought great evil in the world or in your own life.  Then remember there may have been the time when a simple act of obedience to Me by one who crossed his path might have corrected and shown him his wrong before evil mastered him.

Many a sin unconquered, an evil occurrence, could well be traced back to a lack of obedience, perhaps in years long past, of one who professed to serve Me.

Remember this in speaking to those who judge Me by the evil they feel I permit in the world.  For yourself now, dwell not on the past, but dwell more with Me, that in future there be no sins of omission or commission.

 

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 6 - God in Action

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their  seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt. 

Deuteronomy 4:37

 
Power is not such an overwhelming force as it sounds, a something you call to your aid, to intervene in crises.  No!  Power is just God in action.

Therefore whenever a servant of Mine, however weak he humanly may be, allows God to work through him, then all he does is powerful.

Carry this thought with you through the days in which you seem to accomplish little.  Try to see it is not you, but the Divine Spirit in you.  All you have to do, as I have told you before, is to turn self out.  A very powerful axe in a Master Hand accomplishes much.  The same in the hand of a weak child, nothing.  So see that it is not the instrument, but the Master Hand that wields the instrument, that tells.

Remember no day is lost on which some Spiritual Truth becomes clearer.  No day is lost which you have given to Me to use.  My use of it may not have been apparent to you.  Leave that to Me.  Dwell in Me, and I in you, so shall ye bear much fruit. The fruit is not the work of the branches, though proudly the branches may bear it.  It is the work of the Vine, that sends its life-giving sap through those branches.  I am the Vine and ye are the branches.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 6 - Your Garden of Life

 
Think of Me tonight as the Great Gardener, tending and caring for you as a gardener does for his garden.

Pruning here, protecting from frost there, planting, transplanting.  Sowing the seed of this or that truth, safeguarding it with the rich earth, sending My rain and sun to help in its growth, watching so tenderly as it responds to My care.

Lovingly anxious when its first eager green appears.  Full of joy at the site of bud, and when the beauty of flower is seen.  The seed and fruit of His pastures.

The Great Gardener.  Let Me share with you the tending of your garden of life.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

Thursday Treasures from Two Listeners
Discipline - Part 1 of 2
From The Way by E. Stanley Jones

Click here to download the PDF
https://mcusercontent.com/7a12fbba6ac1224300c001fd6/files/87e7a7a9-203f-4832-9d2f-f65386a35ccf/Excerpt_The_Way_Part_1_of_2.pdf
Excerpt from Preface:  “This book is designed to put our feet upon the Way.  It is not an argument, but an adventure.  It is an experiment in living.  If it doesn’t work, don’t take it.  If it does work, bet your very life upon it.  If you do, you will not be working in the dark.  As soon as you really get hold of it – or better, when it gets hold of you – you will know that this is the Way.  Everything else will become irrelevant.  This book begins, not with those who have attained, but with those who want to attain.”

-------------------------------------

Please note this is copyrighted material. 
We are very thankful to Abingdon Press and the
 E. Stanley Jones Foundation for granting us permission
to share these excepts with our readers.

From The Way – E. Stanley Jones 1946, renewed 1973 Abingdon Press.
 All rights reserved.  Used by permission.

https://www.cokesbury.com/The-Way-1-2?refq=the%20way%20e.%20stanley%20jones

To read more about E. Stanley Jones, visit the website:  https://www.estanleyjonesfoundation.com/


God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 5 - They Have No Wine

They have no wine.

Something is lacking at the feast of life.

I only can supply that wonderful Life element that the world lacks.  The Joy, the sparkle is Mine to give.

Yours to feel the lack, the soullessness.  Yours to say — “They have no wine.”

“Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.”

Your task to fill the water-pots with water.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 5 - Second Advent

He must increase,

but I must decrease. 

John 3:30

 
Jesus, Comforter of all the sorrowing, help us to bring Thy comfort into every heart and life to which Thou art longing to express that comfort through us.  Use us, Lord.  The years may be many or few.  Place us where we can best serve Thee, and influence most for Thee.

The world would be brought to Me so soon, so soon, if only all who acknowledged Me as Lord, as Christ, gave themselves unreservedly to be used by Me.

I could use each human body as mightily as I used My own human body as a channel for Divine Love and Power.

I do not delay My second coming.  My followers delay it.

If each lived for Me, by Me, in Me, allowing Me to live in him, to use him to express the Divine through him, as I expressed it when on earth, then long ago the world would have been drawn to Me, and I should have come to claim My own.

So seek, My children, to live, knowing no other desire but to express Me, and to show My Love to your world.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

November 4 - The Life Beautiful

The Wonder of a life with Thee, dear Lord.

In the Spirit realm Truths reveal themselves in the same varied wonders of color as Nature her beauties.

Experiences, Guidance, Revelation of Truth, these are all, as it were, the flashing of glorious color-harmonies upon your inner sight, provoking such a wealth of joy, such a thrill of ecstasy as is beyond mortal tongue to describe.

That Joy is no shimmering beauty of the surface, but the strength-giving and comforting.  It furnishes the very foundation-altar upon which your life yields itself in sacrifice to Me, and from which your prayers ascend.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 4 - I Am Beside You

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit.

Psalm 51:12
In thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.   – Psalm 16:11
Do not seek to realize this fullness of Joy as the result of effort.  This cannot be, any more than Joy in a human friend’s presence would come as the result of trying to force yourself to like to have that friend with you.

Call often My Name, “Jesus.”

The calling of My Name does not really summon Me.  I am beside you.  But it removes, as it were, the scales from your eyes and you see Me.

It is, as it were, the pressure of a loved one’s hand, that brings an answering pressure, and a thrill of Joy follows, a real, and a joyful sense of nearness.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 3 - No Limit

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.  

James 4:3
Unlimited supply, that is My Law. Oh! the unlimited Supply, and oh! the poor, blocked channels!  Will you feel this, that there is no limit to My Power?

But man asks, and blasphemes in asking, such poor mean things.  Do you not see how you wrong Me?  I desire to give you a gift, and if you are content with the poor, and the mean, and the sordid, then you are insulting Me, the Giver.

“Ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.”  How I can fulfill the promise is My Work, not yours, to consider … Have a big Faith, and expect big things, and you will get big things.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 3 - No Limit

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.  

James 4:3
Unlimited supply, that is My Law. Oh! the unlimited Supply, and oh! the poor, blocked channels!  Will you feel this, that there is no limit to My Power?

But man asks, and blasphemes in asking, such poor mean things.  Do you not see how you wrong Me?  I desire to give you a gift, and if you are content with the poor, and the mean, and the sordid, then you are insulting Me, the Giver.

“Ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.”  How I can fulfill the promise is My Work, not yours, to consider … Have a big Faith, and expect big things, and you will get big things.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 2 - Spend

For the love of money
is the root of all evil.

1 Timothy 6:10

Give, give, give.  Keep ever an empty vessel for Me to fill.

In future use all for Me, and give all you cannot use.

How poor die those who leave wealth!  Wealth is to use, to spend, for Me.

Use as you go. Delight to use.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners


November 2 - Your Store of Wealth

The stored wealth of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

The giving out of that Spirit-wealth.

The supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

This, My Spirit, must be absorbed, not in a moment of emergency, but in the quiet alone-times, so that from this store all help and strength can be supplied.

The mistakes My followers often make is that they rely upon this supply being ready for them to claim from Me at need, when the claim should have been made before, and My Spirit in all its fullness have already become a part of them.

My Spirit is not a Spirit of Rescue alone.  It is both Builder and Strength, making of My followers that strong soldier ready for the emergency or strong to avoid it, as the need of My Kingdom may demand.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

November 1 - Prayer of Joy

And another angel came … having a golden censer; … and the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.

Revelation 8:3,4

 
Joy is the messenger, dear Lord, that bears our prayers to Thee

Prayer can be like incense, rising ever higher and higher, or it can be like a low earth-mist clinging to the ground, never once soaring.

The Eye that sees all, the Ear that hears all, knows every cry.

But the prayer of real faith is the prayer of Joy, that sees and knows the heart of Love it rises to greet, and that is so sure of a glad response.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.


God At Eventide  by Two Listeners


November 1 - Joy In November

 
These things have I spoken . . . that your Joy may be full.

The hallmark of a true follower of Mine is Joy.

Not a surface pleasure at life’s happenings, a something that is reflected from without, but a welling up from within of that happiness that can only come from a heart at peace, secure in its friendship with Me.

Joy, strong and calm, attracts men to Me.

How many who claim Me Lord reflect a dull Christ, and wonder that the world turns rather to the glitter and tinsel of that world’s pleasures.

Truly My followers deny Me in so doing.  I am a Glorified Christ.  A Christ of Triumphant Conquest.

Alas!  My followers point too often to the grave-clothes of the tomb.  Still learn to love and laugh.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

October 31 - The Voice Again

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Psalm 119:11

 
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light into my path. — Psalm 119:105.

Yes! My Word, the Scriptures. Read them, study them; store them in your hearts, use them as you use a lamp to guide your footsteps.

But remember, My children, My Word is more even than that. It is the Voice that speaks to your hearts, that inner consciousness that tells of Me.

It is the Voice that speaks to you intimately, personally, in this sacred evening time. It is even more than that. It is I your Lord and Friend.

“And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” Truly a lamp to your feet, and a light to your path.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners

October 30

Again I would stress that the service of My followers must be ever one of Love, not of duty. Temptations can so easily overcome a resolution based on fear, on duty, but against Love temptation has no power. Live in My Spirit, rest in My Love.

Remember, if you look to Me for everything, and trust Me for everything, and if I do not send the full measure you ask, it must not be thought that it is necessarily some sin or weakness that is hindering My Help from flowing into and through you.

In some cases this may be so, but it may be simply My restraining Hand laid on you as I whisper, “Rest, step aside with Me. Come apart and rest a while.”

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God At Eventide  by Two Listeners
October 30

Again I would stress that the service of My followers must be ever one of Love, not of duty. Temptations can so easily overcome a resolution based on fear, on duty, but against Love temptation has no power. Live in My Spirit, rest in My Love.

Remember, if you look to Me for everything, and trust Me for everything, and if I do not send the full measure you ask, it must not be thought that it is necessarily some sin or weakness that is hindering My Help from flowing into and through you.

In some cases this may be so, but it may be simply My restraining Hand laid on you as I whisper, “Rest, step aside with Me. Come apart and rest a while.”

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

October 30 - The Hardest Lesson

Our soul waiteth for the Lord:
he is our help and our shield. 

Psalm 33:20

Wait and you shall realize the Joy of the one who can be calm and wait, knowing that all is well. The last, and hardest lesson, is that of waiting. So wait.

I would almost say tonight “Forgive Me, children, that I allow this extra burden to rest upon you even for so short a time.”

I would have you know this, that from the moment you placed all in My Hands, and sought no other aid, from that moment I have taken the quickest way possible to work out your salvation, and to free you.

There is so much you have had to be taught — to avoid future disaster. But the Friend with whom you stand by the grave of failure, of dead ambitions, of relinquished desires, that Friend is a Friend for all time.

Use this waiting time to cement the Friendship with Me, and to increase your Knowledge of Me.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

October 29 - Discount Money

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. 

Philippians 2:5

Never count success by money gained. That is not the mind of My Kingdom. Your success is the measure of My Will and Mind that you have revealed to those around you.

Your success is the measure of My Will that those around you have seen worked out in your lives.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.


God At Eventide  by Two Listeners
View this email in your browser

October 29 - Little Difficulties

 
The secret of true discipleship is service and little things. So rarely do Mine understand this.

They are ready to die for Me, but not to live for Me, in all the small details of this life.

Is not this the way of men, so often, towards those they love in the world? They are so ready to make the big sacrifices, but not the little ones.

Guard against this in service for Me. Suffer little hardships gladly, overcome little proud impulses, little selfishnesses, and little difficulties. Serve Me in the little things. Be My servants of the little ways.

 

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God Calling    by Two Listeners

October 28 - Glad Surprises

Do all things without murmurings and disputings. 

Philippians 2:14

 
Our Lord, we know that all is well. We trust Thee for all. We love Thee increasingly. We bow to Thy Will.

Bow not as one who is resigned to some heavy blow about to fall or to the acceptance of some inevitable decision.

Bow as a child bows, in anticipation of a glad surprise being prepared for it by one who loves it.

Bow in such a way, just waiting to hear the loving word to raise your head, and see the glory and Joy and wonder of your surprise.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25


Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.

God at Eventide by Two Listeners

October 28 - Growing Young

There will never be a time when you will have conquered all of self. As you mount higher and higher you will see more and more clearly the errors and shortcomings of your character and life.

That is as it should be. Progress means youth.

Arrested growth means stagnation. Lack of progress and failure to conquer mean — old age.

In Eternal Life there can be no old age. Eternal Life is Youth-Life, full and abundant Life. “And this is Life Eternal that they may know Thee, the only True God, and JESUS Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.”

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

Copyright 2020 Two Listeners, All rights reserved.