{"id":13721,"date":"2023-02-24T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13721"},"modified":"2023-02-24T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:27:41","slug":"all-the-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13721\/all-the-way-home\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Way Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I just finished watching sister Willie on a video.\u00a0 I have had this same feeling and thought twice about it now in the last few weeks.\u00a0 We need to be in shape for whatever God wants to use us for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We have been reading in Joshua in our Old Testament Class,* and as I read it, the thought I had was <em>what if Joshua&#8217;s mighty men were sitting around eating Cheetos and out of shape when God sent them to conquer Canaan\u2019s land?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>They would have been useless to God.\u00a0 They had to be in shape at all times for whatever God was going to send them to do!\u00a0 I really felt that thought, and I have been praying for Jesus to help me be in the best shape I can be in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We never know when God may send a new or an old heart our way.\u00a0 I want to be in the best spiritual shape to give a testimony or say &#8221; Amen&#8221;, or maybe even say &#8220;No way&#8221;!\u00a0 Whatever God may want me to do!\u00a0 How awful it is to be out of shape when Jesus calls your name!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As I watched sister Willie, I was loving how much I hold onto her testimony.\u00a0 I love holding onto her shirttail, following her &#8220;mouth full of thankfulness&#8221; home!\u00a0 So many times, I tell myself, &#8220;You can&#8217;t be thankful and grumble at the same time.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t go together.&#8221;\u00a0 That gold from sister Willie has saved me from a wrong attitude so many times, and it had me asking Jesus to make me thankful.\u00a0 It works! The right gets rid of the wrong!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Beth<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_otcourse-1010.html\">Old Testament Course (Pt. 1) &#8211; Going to Jesus.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I just finished watching sister Willie on a video.\u00a0 I have had this same feeling and thought twice about it now in the last few weeks.\u00a0 We need to be in shape for whatever God wants to use us for. We have been reading in Joshua in our Old Testament Class,* and as [&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-13721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721"}],"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=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}