{"id":13014,"date":"2022-05-27T00:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T00:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13014"},"modified":"2022-05-27T00:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T00:43:18","slug":"praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13014\/praying\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope all is well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week and before I started work, I went downstairs to pray.\u00a0 My spirit was heavy for all of the illnesses and so many other things going on with us.\u00a0 Before I started praying, I knew that\u00a0I could not approach God this time in prayer by starting out in English and my own way to start (as often before); I knew I had to use the holy Ghost to start praying.\u00a0 As I started praying in tongues, the tongues that I am accustomed to hearing changed to a tongue that was definitely\u00a0some kind of language–if for no other reason but to talk directly in Spirit to our Lord.\u00a0 I was speaking in a normal\u00a0talking voice as if I were talking with someone on a phone.\u00a0 As I was praying in this language, the Spirit took me to our gatherings where I was in the middle of the floor spinning\u00a0slowly around in the room and speaking to each individual, but yet to all there in this language.\u00a0 The Spirit (in my heart) knew every one of our needs, hurts, disappointments, illnesses, joys, happiness, etc., on and on.\u00a0 It knew what one would need to pray for in the will of God, not just praying for things to happen for our ways.\u00a0 It reminded me of Sister Betty and Sandy, when the Spirit moved on them in our meetings and spoke to each individual.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This morning it happened again while I was praying.\u00a0 While speaking this language, the Spirit instantly took me to different places in the world.\u00a0 Ukraine, Uvalde, TX where the shooting just occurred,\u00a0and Washington, DC, from what I can remember.\u00a0 In an instant as well, the Spirit spoke to me in English, “I am responsible\u00a0for causing all of this (shootings, wars, bickering among\u00a0politicians) so that my called-out ones will call on my name.”\u00a0 It’s like what the Lord spoke to you about your father’s sorrow and the hurt you were feeling for him: “I did it\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t explain everything that I was feeling, nor do I want to try, but I do know that (as the message has been, lately) “our times are in His hands”.\u00a0 Everything God is doing is for the good for those who are called and for those who love God.\u00a0 I sat in awe after praying this morning before work, rehearsing the scenes in my mind.\u00a0 All I can say is that, God’s mercy endures forever for those who call upon his name.\u00a0 He is able to get us out of the grave no matter what may put us there.\u00a0 God is not bound to anything of this world that affects humans because as you have taught us, “God is not human.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been really praying lately, “Lord, let me have a heart to call upon you while you can be found.”\u00a0 I believe there is still much more that God wants\u00a0to reveal to His people, us included.\u00a0 I do not want the conveniences of this world to overtake me and make me passive and complacent about calling on His name; I’m not home yet.\u00a0 But Jesus has led me to a place that can help take me home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just wanted to share this while it was fresh on my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Billy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi, Pastor John, Hope all is well. Last week and before I started work, I went downstairs to pray.\u00a0 My spirit was heavy for all of the illnesses and so many other things going on with us.\u00a0 Before I started praying, I knew that\u00a0I could not approach God this time in prayer by starting out […]<\/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-13014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014"}],"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=13014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}