{"id":15521,"date":"2025-03-30T19:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T00:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2025-03-31T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:02:49","slug":"the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15521\/the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I am still reading through the verses with heart in them. It has been wonderful to read what God says about the heart. These verses (below) from Isaiah,\u00a0struck me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are\u00a0going to cry out, whether it be for gladness of heart or anguish of heart, in this world or the next.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought about how broken I was when my heart couldn’t take anymore pain and I cried out to God.\u00a0 And I thought of the times now that the spirit has so sweetly made me laugh, and cry and even sing!\u00a0 I love reading a scripture and knowing the truth of that scripture.\u00a0 It does something to my soul to tell Jesus that I know how true it is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And it pulls out the other things God has said. Truth begets truth … Is that in the Bible somewhere?\u00a0 It should be, maybe next to “line upon line and precept upon precept.” (Isaiah 28:10) I have always loved that verse.<\/span><\/p>\n

The verses in Isaiah made me think of this verse from Luke, and I know it is true because I know the verses in Isaiah are true. (Luke 19:40) But he answered and said to them, \u201cI tell you that if these were to be silent, the\u00a0stones\u00a0themselves would\u00a0cry\u00a0out!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaiah 65:14 “Behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart, but you shall cry out for anguish of heart and shall wail with a broken spirit.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Isaiah 66:14 “And you will see, and your heart will rejoice, and your whole being will flourish like the grass.\u00a0 And it will be known that the hand of Jehovah is upon His servants and His indignation is upon His enemies.”<\/span><\/p>\n

And this one in Jeremiah makes me feel wonderful for you.\u00a0 I know that God gives us shepherds to feed us knowledge and understanding.\u00a0 I know that is true because He gave it to us through you. So it must be also true that you are after His own heart.\u00a0 Isn’t that something Pastor John?\u00a0 God made you after His own heart!\u00a0 That makes my heart sing for you and for us!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah3:15 “And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, and they will feed you knowledge and understanding.”<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart got happy this morning feeling the truth in these verses so I wanted to share them with your heart!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Comments welcome:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1906874662786904232<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Morning Pastor John, I am still reading through the verses with heart in them. It has been wonderful to read what God says about the heart. These verses (below) from Isaiah,\u00a0struck me.\u00a0 We are\u00a0going to cry out, whether it be for gladness of heart or anguish of heart, in this world or the next. I […]<\/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-15521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521"}],"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=15521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15523,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions\/15523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}