{"id":11573,"date":"2020-11-07T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2020-11-07T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:36:00","slug":"the-scary-thing-is-the-godly-can-eat-your-fish-and-be-blessed-by-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/11573\/the-scary-thing-is-the-godly-can-eat-your-fish-and-be-blessed-by-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scary Thing Is, the Godly Can Eat Your Fish and Be Blessed by It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pastor John,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lord taught me something a couple of weeks ago, and I wrote it down at the time.&nbsp; I wanted to send it to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jerry D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">God can use the disobedient to bless the obedient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">If a child of God is foolish with his money and buys what he can&#8217;t afford, those who are prudent with their money may be blessed by buying those things later at a discount when the foolish must try to [sell it and] recoup those needed funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">If a spouse works himself into the ground&nbsp;for wages he doesn&#8217;t need, or wages to replace money ill-spent, those extra wages may serve to bless the godly in his home who didn&#8217;t work so hard, but instead kept their mind and efforts toward the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">You told us a story once where a foolish child of God was spending too much time fishing.&nbsp; The young man was admonished; his pastor told him such time didn&#8217;t exist in his life for constantly fishing when God&#8217;s work&nbsp;remained undone.&nbsp; But he did not listen and went fishing anyway.&nbsp; Then, the young man scoffed at his pastor (who didn&#8217;t have time for fishing) behind his back because his pastor later ate and enjoyed the fish the young man had caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I tell you it is scary.&nbsp; God will bless a faithful to enjoy the fruit of a foolish believer&#8217;s disobedient and self-willed labors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">God uses the foolish in His house to bless the wise \u2013 all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, The Lord taught me something a couple of weeks ago, and I wrote it down at the time.&nbsp; I wanted to send it to you. Jerry D. God can use the disobedient to bless the obedient. If a child of God is foolish with his money and buys what he can&#8217;t afford, those [&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-11573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573"}],"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=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}