{"id":10509,"date":"2018-11-10T16:39:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T16:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10509"},"modified":"2018-11-10T16:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T16:39:51","slug":"while-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10509\/while-praying\/","title":{"rendered":"While Praying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">While praying today the Lord told me, all transgression is against Him, there is no transgression against me- the person.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not supposed to be here, I&#8217;m supposed to be a reflection of my Father in Heaven.\u00a0 I am supposed to decrease, while He increases in me.\u00a0 If I will humble myself and realize that I am nothing,\u00a0<i>that<\/i>\u00a0is my safety, my security.\u00a0 That will keep me from ever being offended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When Jesus walked the earth, he took nothing personally, he was nothing, he was no one \u2013\u00a0<i>in his eyes;\u00a0<\/i>he\u00a0was a worm.\u00a0 Jesus knew all spite, all hatred, all malice, all wickedness and misunderstanding that was directed at him, was really aimed at his heavenly Father.\u00a0 And he prayed for those who felt that way- that God would forgive them for their attitude, toward\u00a0<i>God<\/i>, not him!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If we will walk in that place, knowing we are nothing, it makes it very easy to forgive.\u00a0 In that place we can&#8217;t be offended.\u00a0 We can easily pray for those who misunderstand or aim to hurt us, or do so without intending to.\u00a0 We can seek the Lord for them as Jesus did, knowing that all praise heaped upon us by men, for doing well, belongs to God.\u00a0 And all\u00a0<i>hatred<\/i>\u00a0heaped upon us by men, for doing well, belongs to God as well.\u00a0 We can just pray for them, knowing that God watches over our soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Lord told me once, many years ago, &#8220;Taking care of you is what\u00a0<i>I<\/i>\u00a0do, while you are taking care of other people.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 While praying today the Lord told me, all transgression is against Him, there is no transgression against me- the person.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not supposed to be here, I&#8217;m supposed to be a reflection of my Father in Heaven.\u00a0 I am supposed to decrease, while He increases in me.\u00a0 If I will humble myself and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}