{"id":1378,"date":"2013-02-22T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etheriedge.wordpress.com\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2020-05-04T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T19:03:02","slug":"he-knocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/22\/he-knocks\/","title":{"rendered":"He Knocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0God reminded me&#8230;\u00a0<strong>He Knocks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>My words, my love are just one knock that you may hear today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> But there will come some others as you hurry on your way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Sometimes through compassion; words of offered hope,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Sometimes through correction; like a lasso or a rope,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> There is constant knocking of Someone to come in, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Someone Who is at your door, One who&#8217;s always been,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Waiting, waiting patiently, all the while He&#8217;s knocking,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> A quiet calling, &#8220;Open up,&#8221; He watches for unlocking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> This One never gives up, He&#8217;s hopeful for us all,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> And so He goes on knocking to the greatest and the small.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Listen, listen, open up! Ask Him then to enter,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Grace and mercy, fellowship will follow with a dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Offered are His blessings and treasures one can&#8217;t weigh,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> When you listen for His knock and open up today. \u00a0<\/em><em>-Anna 2\/17\/2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ForGlorySake!<\/strong> <em>-Anna<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/81uOGkv2L2L._AC_SL1200_.jpg?resize=640%2C474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5072\"\/><figcaption><em>Jesus said,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Look at Me, I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear Me call and open the door, I will come right in and sit down to supper with you.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>Revelation 3:20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0God reminded me&#8230;\u00a0He Knocks My words, my love are just one knock that you may hear today. But there will come some others as you hurry on your way. Sometimes through compassion; words of offered hope, Sometimes through correction; like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/22\/he-knocks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[150,358,404,892],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-compassion","tag-grace","tag-hope","tag-witnessing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUt4s-me","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}