{"id":4263,"date":"2009-03-23T21:05:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=58"},"modified":"2009-03-23T21:05:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:05:29","slug":"leave-room-for-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/23\/leave-room-for-god-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAVE ROOM FOR GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But when it pleased God&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; Galatians 1:15<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God &#8211; to give<br \/>\nGod &#8220;elbow room.&#8221; We calculate and estimate, and say that this and<br \/>\nthat will happen, and we forget to make room for God to come in as He<br \/>\nchooses. Would we be surprised if God came into our meeting or into<br \/>\nour preaching in a way we had never looked for Him to come? Do not<br \/>\nlook for God to come in any particular way, but look for Him. That is<br \/>\nthe way to make room for Him. Expect Him to come, but do not expect<br \/>\nHim only in a certain way. However much we may know God, the great<br \/>\nlesson to learn is that at any minute He may break in. We are apt to<br \/>\nover look this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other<br \/>\nway. All of a sudden God meets the life &#8211; &#8220;When it was the good<br \/>\npleasure of God. . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His<br \/>\nsurprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left.<br \/>\nAlways be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for<br \/>\nGod to come in as He likes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But when it pleased God&#8230; &#8212; Galatians 1:15 As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God &#8211; to give God &#8220;elbow room.&#8221; We calculate and estimate, and say that this and that will happen, and we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses. Would we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}