{"id":12364,"date":"2021-09-13T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12364"},"modified":"2021-09-13T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T01:31:00","slug":"cancer-is-just-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12364\/cancer-is-just-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cancer Is Just a Word.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Brother John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The sincere joy and trust in Jesus that Carrie showed Saturday night was beautiful.\u00a0 She was so right when she said that cancer is just a word.\u00a0 Cancer is a word the world manufactured to describe an experience that isn&#8217;t working for their good\u2014if they don&#8217;t love God.\u00a0 In the kingdom of God, if you love God, cancer is just another one of those &#8220;All Things&#8221;* that works together for good to those\u00a0who love Him.\u00a0 That is not a\u00a0bumper sticker to make folks feel better; it is a promise from the apostle Paul in Romans Chapter 8.\u00a0 And he knew Jesus, and Jesus knew him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When you know you are loved by the one true God, cancer really is no different than receiving a blessing.\u00a0 It is all just events that God created to get His saints home to Him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I know that cancer isn&#8217;t a good experience.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine it &#8211; in my flesh.\u00a0 But I know in the Spirit, the Spirit Carrie is giving herself to, it is all the same; &#8220;just another\u00a0one of those All Things&#8221; from God to get us home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God bless her and keep her in that perfect place.\u00a0 So sweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">* <strong><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><a style=\"color:#3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=suffering\">Going to Jesus.com &#8211; Suffering and the Saints<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">(The book <em>Suffering and the Saints<\/em> was originally titled, <em>All Things<\/em>.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother John, The sincere joy and trust in Jesus that Carrie showed Saturday night was beautiful.\u00a0 She was so right when she said that cancer is just a word.\u00a0 Cancer is a word the world manufactured to describe an experience that isn&#8217;t working for their good\u2014if they don&#8217;t love God.\u00a0 In the kingdom of God, [&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-12364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364"}],"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=12364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}