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This book is dangerous in the way that it purports to be channeled revelation from Jesus. Accepting this extreme claim leads people away from studying Scripture and into a search for subjective personal revelation. The book sounds very good in many parts, but a closer reading reveals the shallowness of what is actually taught. For example, March 13 says, "Spiritualism is wrong. No man should ever be a medium for any spirit, other than Mine." Yet the "Listeners" were anonymous mediums, who sat with paper and pen and wrote what "came to them!" This book gives no credentials as to why we should believe that the "spirit" they wrote for is the Holy Spirit. Technically, we have no proof that the "two women" even existed, let alone that they were Christians. We are simply asked to take this on A. J. Russell's word. (He helped found the Oxford Movement, which became the Moral Rearmament Movement, known today as the "Initiatives for Change." This quasi-religious international group pursues world transformation through steps like: "A daily time of silence where we listen to our conscience or 'inner voice'- for people of faith, the leading of God - for direction and correction." Not exactly Jesus' mission program, is it?) March 16 says "Do you realize that I am telling you truths, revealing them, not repeating oft-told facts? . . . All down the ages, men have been too eager to say what they thought about My truth, and so doing, they have grievously erred . . My words need none of man's explanation. I can explain to each heart . . ." This directly contradicts the Bible, which says that God gave pastors and teachers to the church to help equip the saints for the work of the ministry. We're supposed to take the edited words of two unknown women as perfectly from Christ and avoid "man's explanation?" Sounds like an open door to any number of cults to me. Another line from March 16 - "To lead a soul to Me is one thing, to seek to stay with it to interpret, mars the first great act." This is contrary to Biblical commands to "make disciples" by "teaching," "doctrine," "reproof," and "exhortation." The New Testament is filled with commands to teach new believers to study the Bible and interpret it. Another point - the "Jesus" of this book doesn't have the facts about His own birth right. December 24 says that the Magi visited Christ in "the Bethlehem Stable." Funny - "Jesus" should have known that the Magi visited the Child in a "house," according to Matthew! I agree with Steven Tsoukalas, who says of "God's Calling," - "The popularity of this book is a symptom of what ails the Church today-virtually no discernment, no deep biblical knowledge, a sugar-coated view of God, and a desire for the what-can-I-get-out-of-God rather than a desire to know God more deeply through the study of His Word." Don't wander after shortcuts. Get in the Book - the real Book!