{"id":14168,"date":"2023-09-07T23:41:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14168"},"modified":"2023-09-07T23:41:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:41:41","slug":"the-dead-do-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14168\/the-dead-do-not-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Do Not Know"},"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\">Last night you spoke about our dead relatives not looking down on us and not knowing what we are doing.\u00a0 I had an experience with Jesus in 2011 and he put that in my heart.\u00a0 It was an amazing experience and it changed me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I had an unnatural fear of death set in on me as a child.\u00a0 I remember the day it happened.\u00a0 I can still see exactly where I was sitting that day, when an understanding came on me that we are all going to die at some point.\u00a0 With it came a heavy fear and I sobbed for hours that day.\u00a0 I carried that fear with me into adulthood.\u00a0 When I had my children, just the thought of leaving them here alone would bring tears and that heavy fear.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to begin to really seek Jesus because the fear of death was so consuming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">One afternoon, after Jesus really started dealing with my heart and at the very beginning of asking him for the holy ghost, Jesus took me flying with him.\u00a0 I was sitting quietly talking to Jesus about things, and in a moment, I was with Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Jesus was on my right-hand side, and I could see the brightness of him, but I could not see his face.\u00a0 We were holding hands and flying over a large rock cliff that went over a sea.\u00a0 There was no color except the brightness coming off of Jesus.\u00a0 I would call it white, but it really was just a brightness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As I held his hand and flew next to him, I was one with him.\u00a0 I understand being in him more because of this experience.\u00a0 We were next to each other, but we were one.\u00a0 I felt the most wonderful warmth coming from him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As I flew with him, I understood that when we are with him, we do not have one thought of this world.\u00a0 Not one.\u00a0 I understood I would not be with Jesus mourning my children.\u00a0 They wouldn&#8217;t even be a thought.\u00a0 As I realized that in the air with Jesus, it brought such a peace.\u00a0 I still have that peace.\u00a0 Jesus changed my heart that day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">At the very end of that experience, Jesus showed me a large painter&#8217;s pail and inside of it were so many beautiful colors.\u00a0 They were all swirled next to the other, but none of them bled into each other, and I was fascinated by that.\u00a0 I knew that when we reached that pail, we would tip it over and all the colors would spill out and fill the earth, instead of that gray color.\u00a0 I looked at Jesus, and he said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go pour some sunshine on my world!&#8221; &#8230;.\u00a0 Then Jerry,\u00a0 who had dozed off next to me, moved and Jesus dropped me.\u00a0 I fell straight down to where I was sitting before he took me flying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I can still feel what it felt like to fall.\u00a0 It took me days to get over not being with him.\u00a0 Just ask my husband!!\u00a0 I mourned having to come back here and leave him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Actually, I don&#8217;t think I am over it yet!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Beth D.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Last night you spoke about our dead relatives not looking down on us and not knowing what we are doing.\u00a0 I had an experience with Jesus in 2011 and he put that in my heart.\u00a0 It was an amazing experience and it changed me. 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