{"id":10593,"date":"2019-02-15T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2019-02-15T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:04:59","slug":"gospel-tract-96-the-spirit-of-a-serpent-and-a-dove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10593\/gospel-tract-96-the-spirit-of-a-serpent-and-a-dove\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Tract 96: The Spirit of a Serpent and a Dove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi John.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I can&#8217;t recall how many times that I have read and listened to the tract:\u00a0<a style=\"color:#0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_tracts.html?tname=tract-096-serpentdove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spirit of a Serpent, Spirit of a Dove<\/a>, but it has been scores.\u00a0 Every time that I listen to it, there are new thoughts and feelings in each of the sections: &#8220;the serpent&#8221;, &#8220;the Dove&#8221;, &#8220;the Stone&#8221;, and &#8220;Jesus&#8221;.\u00a0 There are so many things that I have learned about myself and others listening to your words.\u00a0 In my recording room the other night, when you read the section about shooting the dove and then finding it alive \u2013 that is the section that hits home to me the most.\u00a0 God&#8217;s children are referred to sparrows in the Bible, and look how God cares for them!\u00a0 And Jesus said that we mean more to God than small, fragile sparrows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Lord reminded me, through your testimony concerning the dove that you shot long ago, that the opportunity to receive God&#8217;s mercies and to\u00a0love one another\u00a0is a precious gift.\u00a0 God can heal wounds, and a broken reed He can straighten, and a smoking flax He won&#8217;t quench.\u00a0\u00a0His mercies are new and available every morning.\u00a0\u00a0All of\u00a0God&#8217;s little sparrows are precious in His sight, and if the mind of Christ is in us, we feel the way God does about them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Just wanted to share some feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John. I can&#8217;t recall how many times that I have read and listened to the tract:\u00a0Spirit of a Serpent, Spirit of a Dove, but it has been scores.\u00a0 Every time that I listen to it, there are new thoughts and feelings in each of the sections: &#8220;the serpent&#8221;, &#8220;the Dove&#8221;, &#8220;the Stone&#8221;, and &#8220;Jesus&#8221;.\u00a0 [&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-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593"}],"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=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}