{"id":12016,"date":"2021-05-03T17:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2021-05-03T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:46:36","slug":"praying-for-bad-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12016\/praying-for-bad-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for Bad Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The other morning, I got up and a feeling of prayer overwhelmed me for president Biden and everyone in his administration.\u00a0 I felt my heart just collapse, and I began pleading for Jesus to help and to have mercy on them.\u00a0 I felt such compassion and concern for them.\u00a0 I have never felt such love and care for people who are doing so much damage to others.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Immediately, I said in my heart, &#8220;Lord, this is how it is supposed to be.\u00a0 This is how we are to pray for our enemies instead of offering &#8216;lip service&#8217; because you told us to pray for them.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And as if answering a question I had not yet asked, the spirit spoke to my heart and said, &#8220;Believe God.\u00a0 That is how you pray for your enemies. When you believe God will do to them all He has said, it will make you plead for them.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I felt a resounding &#8220;Yes!&#8221; go up from my heart.\u00a0 I knew God had helped me to do it His way.\u00a0 The answer was just to believe God and not look at things any other way.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, The other morning, I got up and a feeling of prayer overwhelmed me for president Biden and everyone in his administration.\u00a0 I felt my heart just collapse, and I began pleading for Jesus to help and to have mercy on them.\u00a0 I felt such compassion and concern for them.\u00a0 I have never felt [&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-12016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016"}],"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=12016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}