{"id":12779,"date":"2022-02-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12779"},"modified":"2022-02-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:00:00","slug":"matthew-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12779\/matthew-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew on Tuesday"},"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;\">I felt so encouraged, sheltered, &amp; safe in the meeting last night.\u00a0 I took off a little early from work to get ready and pray before I went, preparing to receive anything from the Lord.\u00a0 My, did He ever deliver! Songs, seeing Darren back among us and operating his gift, Gary, Donna, and you singing happy but sober songs.\u00a0 It really touched me.\u00a0 I love doing my job and playing bass, but it is also nice to put it down and soak in what is being said in the songs, as with Donna and you at the piano last night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John, we are not going to get around the order that God has set up here.\u00a0 When God brought each and everyone of us here, he sat us under the authority that God gave to Jesus to give to you for us.\u00a0 That is just the way it is, and I love it.\u00a0 That is where peace is, real love, fellowship &#8212; everything!\u00a0 We are not going to bypass God&#8217;s order and have fellowship . . . it cannot work.\u00a0 Sometimes, I shake my head and wonder, &#8220;God, how much you must truly love us to give us a gift as your servant, John.&#8221;\u00a0 I pray that God is sanctified in my heart to take these things in, and I pray I am found worthy of taking them in.\u00a0 This is not a game!\u00a0 Eternal life or eternal death is at stake, and Jesus paid it all so that we can have life, starting now &#8212; today.\u00a0 God doesn&#8217;t need a one of us, but He is going to share his Son&#8217;s life with someone, and his Son is going to be honored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am so very grateful that God sent you to Judy and me.\u00a0 We needed someone to truly love us with the love of God, telling and teaching truth which if we receive and love, will save us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The meeting was so joyful and exciting, but very frightening and real at the same time.\u00a0 &#8220;But God.&#8221;\u00a0 I felt so encouraged in my soul, to travel on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you, Pastor John for telling &amp; teaching us Truth and loving us all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I feel like Ashley, I&#8217;m in awe of last night.\u00a0 There are no words to express how thankful I am Jesus brought me here and put me under you.\u00a0 The authority I felt last night was clean, pure and humbling.\u00a0 I just wanted to fall on my face and thank the Lord the best I could.\u00a0 When you walked out of the room, everything in me just wanted to run to you and say, &#8220;Please don&#8217;t leave.&#8221;\u00a0 It brings tears to my eyes to think of everything Jesus has done for me.\u00a0 I remember\u00a0years ago going to church and not understanding the feelings I was having, after hearing the preacher preach something that didn&#8217;t feel right to my heart.\u00a0 I would go to an old saint that I loved very much and ask her to help me understand.\u00a0 Her reply was always, &#8220;Honey, you have to learn to take the good and leave the bad.&#8221;\u00a0 That crushed my heart every time I heard it.\u00a0 My heart rejoices in that everything you feed us is good, holy and pure food.\u00a0 I always leave, full, fat, and satisfied!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you, Pastor John. I feel like Jesus gave me to you to give me a new life, a life so good, so happy, so full I never dreamed it was possible.\u00a0 Now, here we are, living!\u00a0 Through good times and bad times, God has never failed us!\u00a0 He has given us the best!\u00a0 He has given us you!\u00a0 Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Love you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Michelle<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I felt so encouraged, sheltered, &amp; safe in the meeting last night.\u00a0 I took off a little early from work to get ready and pray before I went, preparing to receive anything from the Lord.\u00a0 My, did He ever deliver! 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