{"id":12543,"date":"2021-12-15T21:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T21:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2021-12-15T21:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T21:39:50","slug":"the-winners-are-the-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12543\/the-winners-are-the-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winners are the Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><a style=\"color:#3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=tfe12-15\">https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=tfe12-15<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I love this Thought for the Day!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thinking about you and praying you are resting and healing. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12548\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/red-heart.png\" alt=\"red heart\" width=\"29\" height=\"29\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thanks for sending this, Beth.\u00a0 It brought tears to my eyes, remembering\u00a0the night when Uncle Joe was dying and Jesus gave me that dream.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>============<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I have always loved this Thought for Today on the Winners are the Losers. \u00a0For one, I was there when you, Pastor John told Uncle Joe about it, but also, when you wrote it, I proofread it with you. \u00a0It touched me so deeply. I went in my room and cried and cried. What you had written applied to my life as well -the places I had been in my early life weren\u2019t the best. I asked Jesus after reading this,\u00a0\u201cWhy was it so bad?&#8221; \u00a0His simple reply: \u201cBecause I wanted you.\u201d shew. \u00a0I never had to ask again why I went through the things I did in my teenage years and shortly after. \u00a0Jesus wanted me. \u00a0So thankful. \u00a0Whatever it took to get me here to this precious life I have now with a sweet family and husband and with Jesus, my sweet friend.<\/p>\n<p>Amy B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=tfe12-15 I love this Thought for the Day!\u00a0 Thinking about you and praying you are resting and healing. Beth D. ============ Thanks for sending this, Beth.\u00a0 It brought tears to my eyes, remembering\u00a0the night when Uncle Joe was dying and Jesus gave me that dream. Pastor John ============ I have always loved this Thought for [&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-12543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543"}],"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=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}