{"id":15402,"date":"2025-02-23T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15402"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:55:50","slug":"thankful-for-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15402\/thankful-for-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful for this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a few thoughts to summarize this weekend and the feelings:<\/span><\/p>\n

1, We didn\u2019t get here to this congregation by what our flesh wanted. If we went by our flesh, no one would be where we are today. We got here because God wanted us here together. We each followed everything He put in our hearts to get here. God loves us!<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Our testimonies teach us through the Spirit that only God can get us here. Not only geographically here, but most importantly, spiritually together through loving the truth. So, living in the flesh isn\u2019t going to get you anywhere with God, either. You have to continue on the path with Him that got you here. Your fleshy will must decrease so God\u2019s will can increase. Don\u2019t be stubborn and self-willed, be God-willed!<\/span><\/p>\n

3. We have the OPPORTUNITY to obey God and BE FREE in our feelings from the Spirit. If you have the Spirit, you have the only tool you need from God to truly LIVE. How you feel is how He feels about you!<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Each person in the kingdom of God has a purpose in the body. How exciting is it that we each have a place and a purpose that God knew from the beginning?! Occupy your place in the body so that you can fulfill the plan that God has for you. Growing in the knowledge and power of God is exciting! We want that for US!<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Take care of each other\u2019s hearts by giving your testimonies (whether it be verbal, dancing, singing, rolling, laughing, etc) so we can have fellowship together. Your testimony is never just for you. It\u2019s for us! Then, we can celebrate to have God\u2019s type of unity and have fellowship together from it! Our testimonies are what brought us together and what will hold us together with the joy in what God has done.<\/span><\/p>\n

God is so much fun. Everything He does is exciting! Rejoice and ride God\u2019s giggle bus\u2026as soon as you can. There is room for all of us. Hahahahahaaha<\/span><\/p>\n

~Wendy<\/span><\/p>\n

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

https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1894038286756200928<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi Pastor John, I had a few thoughts to summarize this weekend and the feelings: 1, We didn\u2019t get here to this congregation by what our flesh wanted. If we went by our flesh, no one would be where we are today. We got here because God wanted us here together. We each followed everything […]<\/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-15402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402"}],"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=15402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15405,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions\/15405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}