{"id":14022,"date":"2023-08-10T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14022"},"modified":"2023-08-10T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:28:20","slug":"this-morning-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14022\/this-morning-6\/","title":{"rendered":"This Morning"},"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 had some good thoughts from the Spirit this morning, mainly: &#8220;Stop reacting to your surroundings. Your relationship is with Jesus, not your surroundings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">That is life in this new covenant: being in this world, but not of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We move when Jesus says move.\u00a0 Our being is in him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">If we respond to our surroundings, which are ever-changing and usually in some kind of turmoil, we will be tossed in every direction. We&#8217;ll never know what to do, or how much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We move when he moves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">It was a good reminder this morning that He is Lord of all of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Things are changing in this world, more than I ever thought I would see in my lifetime.\u00a0 But we are called to perfect peace, with our hearts and minds stayed on him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I had some good thoughts from the Spirit this morning, mainly: &#8220;Stop reacting to your surroundings. Your relationship is with Jesus, not your surroundings.\u201d That is life in this new covenant: being in this world, but not of it. We move when Jesus says move.\u00a0 Our being is in him. If we respond [&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-14022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022"}],"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=14022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}