{"id":14336,"date":"2023-11-16T00:38:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14336"},"modified":"2023-11-16T00:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:38:36","slug":"jesus-hears-your-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14336\/jesus-hears-your-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Hears Your Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Morning!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I\u2019m sitting here this morning thanking Jesus that I got the point of what Jesus was showing me in my journey to him. In the entertainment world right now, there is a man who became popular worldwide for his role on a sitcom.\u00a0 He became \u201cfamous\u201d and that was his dream. In this clip, he tells how he prayed about being famous and God answered his prayer, and then how he prayed later to just remain alive.\u00a0 God answered his prayer and six months into it, he was on drugs and a spiral downfall the rest of his life. His second prayer, which he states God answered, God let him live. He stated in another video how he didn\u2019t want to be remembered for the sitcom, because to him, they were painful memories of every time he was strung out so bad he couldn\u2019t even remember doing the scenes.\u00a0 The influence on the people he touched was not what he had hoped for in the end. Sadly, though, I\u2019m not sure that he got the point. I hope he did, but he died suddenly about two weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">He knew God answered his prayer but where did it lead him.\u00a0 Hearing this last night brought back memories of a specific time in my life when I prayed for something that I wanted\u2026. when I was a sinner.\u00a0 That prayer was answered and it was some of the roughest times in my life, when it didn\u2019t have to be. I could have left it and gone on with God but I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 It took me a little while longer to get the point. It was hard but at the end, when I prayed for relief, Jesus gave it and brought me to him\u2026. And I got the point! And Jesus gave me relief and blessed me with a wonderful life instead. Jesus made me happy.\u00a0 I was completely finished with that world. I cannot thank him enough for that. Where I was, I could have very easily not been here today, just like the young man in the video. Jesus saved my life!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Prayers matter to God, and He hears them. Some prayers may not be the best route for you, so it matters what you are asking for. Since that experience in my life, my prayers have been more like \u201cGod whatever your will is for me, let me do it.\u201d \u00a0Even if I had things in my heart that I wanted, the bottom line is, \u201cwhat do you want God?\u201d.\u00a0 And then, pray I cooperate!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Life lessons bring about life living\u2026.. for sure!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I attached the short video in case anyone would like to hear it. God does hear your prayer, but what are you praying for and where is it taking you? Whew!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Song and I were just talking about this very thing at the grocery store today.\u00a0 She saw a magazine on the checkout area that said this guy died, and I told her the same things you said here. When God gives us a chance, any chance, it\u2019s important that we stay true to our answered prayer.\u00a0 It\u2019s no joke.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Gary<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matthew Perry Prayed for Fame Before &#039;Friends,&#039; Asked God to Save His Life From Addiction | SiriusXM\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMlVwP1Zyyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 66px\" width=\"201\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning! I\u2019m sitting here this morning thanking Jesus that I got the point of what Jesus was showing me in my journey to him. In the entertainment world right now, there is a man who became popular worldwide for his role on a sitcom.\u00a0 He became \u201cfamous\u201d and that was his dream. In this clip, [&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-14336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336"}],"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=14336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}