{"id":11368,"date":"2020-08-28T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=11368"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:25:19","slug":"thank-jesus-for-not-getting-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/11368\/thank-jesus-for-not-getting-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank Jesus for Not Getting the Job!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I wanted to let you hear my testimony about how Jesus has changed me.\u00a0 I have always been a pleaser. Unfortunately I directed my desire to please to the wrong people.\u00a0 That is until Jesus filled me with the holy Ghost!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I\u2019ve also been a person to obey the rules. Except the ones I didn\u2019t want to obey <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11023\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wink.png\" alt=\"wink\" width=\"31\" height=\"31\" \/>.\u00a0 Now, with guidance by my wonderful pastor and even more importantly the holy Ghost inside of me, I know to obey Him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">That interview situation we spoke about a couple weeks ago was much more a testimony of how He\u2019s changed me than it was an exploration of a new job.\u00a0 All along the way it was about obeying him.\u00a0 I felt a calling to it and perhaps even an opportunity for persecution.\u00a0 And after we spoke about it, and I searched my heart and prayed on it, it came to me that being a part of the group I would have to be in would not make me happy so when I had my interview I directly asked some questions regarding what the culture of the group was like.\u00a0 It became clear that anyone with an opinion other than the ones the group had would not be accepted.\u00a0 And the spirit in me knew the right way was not the way of this group and I wanted no part of that.\u00a0 I knew that if they wanted me to continue in the process, I was going to say no. Turns out I didn\u2019t have to worry, and they didn\u2019t want to continue the interview process with me.\u00a0 Thank you Jesus!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The most important part of all of this experience was I put myself in neutral, let Jesus take control, humbled myself to his will, and continually prayed to know what his will was for me.\u00a0 It was so refreshing not to be in my own head about any of this.\u00a0 It truly was a godsend and relief to simply know what he wanted me to do and to obey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you for being my wonderful, guiding pastor.\u00a0 My heart overflows with gratefulness for you, for Brad, for my family in Christ, and most of all for Jesus doing all of this me.\u00a0 Now I get to rightly please and obey!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Allison<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 I wanted to let you hear my testimony about how Jesus has changed me.\u00a0 I have always been a pleaser. Unfortunately I directed my desire to please to the wrong people.\u00a0 That is until Jesus filled me with the holy Ghost! I\u2019ve also been a person to obey the rules. Except the ones [&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-11368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368"}],"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=11368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}