{"id":15103,"date":"2024-09-26T19:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T00:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15103"},"modified":"2024-09-29T19:40:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T00:40:27","slug":"sweet-thoughts-from-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15103\/sweet-thoughts-from-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Thoughts from Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I wanted to share something that happened this morning. I had a follow-up doctor appointment for some additional testing. Nothing major that we are aware of, just the doctor being proactive. When I was finished the tech told me I would get notified mid-week next week. I am thankful for the most part that Jesus has allowed me to have wonderful health in my youth. So, I could feel myself getting a little anxious and the what if\u2019s coming and having to wait a week for results. I didn\u2019t want to let my mind go there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Standing there looking in the mirror I was thinking I am not going to get worked up about this. I wouldn\u2019t be able to change it anyways so why get anxious? It was that \u201cit is what it is\u201d mentality. Before I could even finish my thoughts the next thought that came stopped me. I heard, \u201cthings can change\u201d. I wasn\u2019t confused when Jesus brought the thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The next thought that came was Jesus that is right!!! We can change things, YOU can change things. Then I started thinking about James 5:16 where it says, &#8220;The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.&#8221; Why settle when Jesus is standing there waiting for us to ask? It changed my entire thought process in that moment. Instead of saying eh I couldn\u2019t change it either way, how much better is it to ask and tell Jesus about it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we all know his will is going to be done and he works it all for our good, regardless. But what a sweet and wonderful Jesus!! It took all of the anxiety away and gave me so much peace knowing that regardless of any of our circumstances Jesus is standing right there!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I wanted to share because it was such a sweet feeling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">M.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1840551976012034252\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1840551976012034252<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John, I wanted to share something that happened this morning. I had a follow-up doctor appointment for some additional testing. Nothing major that we are aware of, just the doctor being proactive. When I was finished the tech told me I would get notified mid-week next week. I am thankful for the most [&hellip;]<\/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-15103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15103"}],"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=15103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15106,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15103\/revisions\/15106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}