{"id":14719,"date":"2024-05-06T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14719"},"modified":"2024-05-07T10:35:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:35:25","slug":"montanus-reading-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14719\/montanus-reading-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Montanus Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to stop and get this out before I sanded\u00a0my next board!\u00a0\u00a0If I don’t, who knows how it will turn out!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel like Jesus dog-eared a page\u00a0of the Montanus reading\u00a0in my heart!\u00a0\u00a0Last night when you were talking about God knowing our hearts,\u00a0and that is why we received His spirit and that is why we are here, I felt like Jesus opened up my rib cage so my heart could fit inside of my chest!\u00a0\u00a0I had the best thoughts come!\u00a0 And then,\u00a0they were echoed by page 15.\u00a0\u00a0It was almost more than I could take in.\u00a0\u00a0Look how wonderful this is….even when we don’t know our own hearts are His, God knows.\u00a0\u00a0We do not have to know anything!\u00a0\u00a0God knows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Still, in spite of the centuries-long\u00a0effort of Christian leaders to snuff out the life of the Spirit\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0even after Rome\u2019s power was placed in their\u00a0hands\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the Spirit was never completely quenched. God is too faithful for that, for hungry souls may\u00a0always find His grace, even if they do not fully understand Paul\u2019s gospel.\u00a0\u00a0We are saved by grace\u00a0through faith, not by knowledge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I will never look at that the same way again.\u00a0\u00a0We are saved not by knowledge, but by the faithfulness of God.\u00a0\u00a0That is what my heart heard.\u00a0\u00a0And not in a weird Christian way of the “get saved” doctrine, but in His way in His Truth!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And today\u00a0when we were reading\u00a0again,\u00a0all I could think about was how much I love that God\u00a0has\u00a0set it up the way He did.\u00a0\u00a0I love that if we are full of Him, we do not fit in the\u00a0lie\u00a0of Christianity.\u00a0\u00a0Not in any sect of it!\u00a0\u00a0What a loving safeguard\u00a0is\u00a0in place for us,\u00a0and for any heart God has out there!\u00a0\u00a0I thought,\u00a0what a mercy and a blessing that the disease\u00a0of Christianity\u00a0can’t stand us when we are full of the\u00a0Spirit<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought about how as a child in the\u00a0Catholic\u00a0Church, I was taught to not even move unless it was to kneel, sit, or recite at their command,\u00a0and how beautiful it is that God made sure His holy\u00a0Ghost will not fit there.\u00a0\u00a0That makes yielding to Him when He moves in us even more beautiful to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Even a fool not err”\u00a0because God is faithful!<\/span><\/p>\n

Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had to stop and get this out before I sanded\u00a0my next board!\u00a0\u00a0If I don’t, who knows how it will turn out!\u00a0 I feel like Jesus dog-eared a page\u00a0of the Montanus reading\u00a0in my heart!\u00a0\u00a0Last night when you were talking about God knowing our hearts,\u00a0and that is why we received His spirit and that is why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719"}],"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=14719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14721,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions\/14721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}