{"id":12249,"date":"2021-07-19T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12249"},"modified":"2021-07-19T00:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T00:43:00","slug":"footprints-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12249\/footprints-on-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Footprints on the Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morning!<\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago Sandy testified about something the Spirit showed her concerning this phrase from Matthew: \u201coccupy \u2019til I come.\u201d\u00a0 She called me to tell me that the Lord had shown her something and she wanted to be on the list to come to the meeting when you did the Matthew reading so she could tell it.\u00a0 While on the phone, she told me about it.\u00a0\u00a0It brought to my mind something the Lord told me in October 2010.\u00a0 You had just given us a message on honoring the gift of God.\u00a0 It was very good, and afterwards, we all were prayed for.\u00a0 When you laid hands on me, the Lord had a message for me through you: “occupy \u2019til I come\u201d.\u00a0 And I remember talking to the Lord about that and saying, \u201cWhat does that mean???\u201d other than what I thought it was, namely, occupy my place and continue doing the things I know to do in the Lord.\u00a0 When Sandy called and told me what the Lord told her:\u00a0 Occupying \u2019til I come means \u201cLet\u00a0me<\/em>\u00a0[God] occupy\u00a0you<\/em>\u201d, it was an answer to a question I had asked 11 years ago!\u00a0 I thought I knew the answer and was doing what I thought was it, but when Jesus gives the answer, it\u2019s more than what you think you know.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been looking through my papers of things that Jesus has told me through the years that I have written down and thinking to make a collage of them.\u00a0 Interestingly, when I opened the box last night, the index card sitting right on top was just that: 10\/2\/2010 while being prayed for, \u201cI will heal you.\u00a0 Occupy. . . occupy [your place] until I come.\u00a0 I am coming\u201d.\u00a0 I thought,\u00a0wow, then and now!<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0I had just been thinking about that, and there it was.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly after that, I found where I had had a very touching visit from Jesus in which the Lord used Natalie Embry to relay a very tender and intimate message to me from him in March of 2005.\u00a0 A most precious visit from the Lord, I must say.\u00a0 As I was reading over it, it read: \u201cI designed your path.\u00a0 You are mine\u201d and other sweet words from Jesus.\u00a0 But I didn\u2019t remember some of the things the Lord had said to me, and one of them was \u201cin due time\u201d, said a couple of times over.\u00a0 I never questioned that, nor did I ask what that meant.\u00a0 I was so smitten with what had happened and Jesus talking to me, I didn\u2019t think or ask about what was coming in \u201cdue time\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I was reading those things last night back to back, I was seeing the footprints on the map of my life perfectly designed by Jesus.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know what was coming, and I couldn\u2019t have planned it.\u00a0 In 2005, Jesus knew I was going to need to be focused on\u00a0his<\/em>\u00a0things for the next few years in order to do my work as a helper.\u00a0 And, I didn\u2019t know that during that time, Jesus was going to touch a young man in Nebraska and start him on a journey in Jesus.\u00a0 Then, fast-forward to October 2010, the Lord tells me \u201che\u2019s coming\u201d and basically, to be prepared (\u201cLet\u00a0me<\/em>\u00a0occupy\u00a0you<\/em>\u201d).\u00a0 One year later, November 2011, Jesus sent Vince to Graham to be my husband, and that is when our story began.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s really sweet to look back on your life and see the footprints on the map.\u00a0 Reading what the Lord told me, the instructions he gave me, and how he planned the whole thing, I didn\u2019t know what was coming, but he did.\u00a0 When you see things in the light after the fact, you wish you would have known the details \ud83d\ude09 so you would have done better or differently, ha!\u00a0 But here we are!\u00a0 We got here.\u00a0 There are so many more details in the story, but realizing that Jesus loves you and knows you personally and what you need and think and feel, is very special.\u00a0 I love the messages lately and the emphasis on realizing how much you are loved by God.\u00a0 To get that down deep in our heart takes time, but once you realize it\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0believe it, you can\u2019t get away from it.\u00a0 It draws you.\u00a0 It\u2019s the best love affair there is.\u00a0 And it makes everything else in this life sweeter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amy B<\/span><\/p>\n

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Morning! A couple of weeks ago Sandy testified about something the Spirit showed her concerning this phrase from Matthew: \u201coccupy \u2019til I come.\u201d\u00a0 She called me to tell me that the Lord had shown her something and she wanted to be on the list to come to the meeting when you did the Matthew reading […]<\/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-12249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12249"}],"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=12249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}