{"id":12305,"date":"2021-08-19T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12305"},"modified":"2021-08-19T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:31:00","slug":"todays-pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12305\/todays-pearl\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">This is remarkable.&nbsp; Just incredibly apt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am reading this, this morning, AFTER I just had an experience&nbsp;praying with&nbsp;God up on my hill.&nbsp; I hiked up at dawn, and felt compelled to go to the &#8220;filling station&#8221;.&nbsp; And this GCC Pearl speaks precisely to the truth that I was experiencing today. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I naively expect to stay happy and full of the Spirit everyday, yet I fail at that. I get troubled by the strife in the world, by decisions, by my domestic tasks, and by thinking too much.&nbsp; And I assume that I will be fine day-to-day with the fullness of the Spirit, but as GCC explains&#8212;<strong>every day is a brand&nbsp;new day<\/strong>, for a new portion of God&#8217;s manna (happiness and\/or love of God). &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Reading this Pearl was&nbsp;a blessing that validated exactly what I was feeling! &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thankful to God, and to Gary for posting this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Brad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12307\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pearl-8_18_21.jpg\" alt=\"Pearl 8_18_21\" width=\"491\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pearl-8_18_21.jpg 634w, https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pearl-8_18_21-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is remarkable.&nbsp; Just incredibly apt. I am reading this, this morning, AFTER I just had an experience&nbsp;praying with&nbsp;God up on my hill.&nbsp; I hiked up at dawn, and felt compelled to go to the &#8220;filling station&#8221;.&nbsp; And this GCC Pearl speaks precisely to the truth that I was experiencing today. &nbsp; I naively expect [&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-12305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305"}],"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=12305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}