{"id":1141,"date":"2010-09-12T22:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2010-09-12T22:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:06:56","slug":"experience-thursday-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1141\/experience-thursday-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience Thursday & Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/text\/books\/solomonswisdom.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John,<\/p>\n

As I was reading the 3rd chapter in Solomon’s Wisdom<\/em> this morning (“The Diligent & The Slothful”), I remembered an experience I had Friday morning.<\/p>\n

As I was driving into work, I saw a lady beside the road that looked worn and tattered. She had chopped-off, short hair, extremely thin, and she was sickly looking. I’m not sure I could explain how I felt; however, in my spirit I felt that my feelings were self-righteous<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Immediately Jesus reminded me of how He rescued me several years ago. What he reminded me of was a dream He once sent me, showing me where my life would be if I didn’t trust him fully & get my mind back on Him.<\/p>\n

In the dream, I lived in a run-down mobile home with broken windows and tattered curtains. It was so unkempt and dirty, with very little furniture. I remember so vividly saying in the dream, “I remember I used to have a beautiful house with big tall windows,” as I moved my hands in the shape of a window….<\/p>\n

As I looked back at this lady beside the road, I felt, for the first time, that I understood what is meant by the saying “the only difference is God.” The only difference between me and any another human being is what God has done; it is nothing — nothing — that I have done. God (with His people) brought me back to the land of the living, and I am so happy to be LIVING! Tears are welling up as I type this.<\/p>\n

Another sweet experience was this past Thursday after the Wednesday night meeting when the whole body here received correction.<\/p>\n

Before you taught us on how to just live and not live in fear of the “you need to get closer to God” mindset, I would beat myself up when I miss something or when I’d receive correction because making mistakes was always so negative to me. Growing up, in my home it was a big deal to make a mistake or not to know what someone else was thinking and so, be ready to pass him a tool or catch something from falling, etc.) Making mistakes made me feel like such a bad person. But now, (tears again) I’m realizing that I am growing and learning! I felt good Thursday because I wasn’t beating myself up after Wednesday night’s meeting. It was an education in the spirit on how to be more like Christ.<\/p>\n

Amanda<\/p>\n

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Pastor John,<\/p>\n

This email from Amanda was very sweet and it was just as if we were writing it together \ud83d\ude42 I have had the same thoughts and feelings lately. In fact, just last night Steven and I were talking about our life and where we would be and how thankful we are and excited we are to live a good, clean life. One thing I said was that the only difference between me and anyone else is God! I didn’t do anything, and I can’t do anything or think anything good unless He lets me. Then I said that it makes me want even more to live a life obeying and trusting God and full of thanksgiving for what He has done for me…because it doesn’t and didn’t have to be that way. Why not live a life that is pleasing to God and that makes Him happy that He does what He does for you?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ve been loving everything that I’ve been hearing for the past week or more and it all keeps getting sweeter and sweeter as the days go by \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Leah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/text\/books\/solomonswisdom.pdf Pastor John, As I was reading the 3rd chapter in Solomon’s Wisdom this morning (“The Diligent & The Slothful”), I remembered an experience I had Friday morning. As I was driving into work, I saw a lady beside the road that looked worn and tattered. She had chopped-off, short hair, extremely thin, and she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"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=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}