{"id":15575,"date":"2025-04-17T18:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T23:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15575"},"modified":"2025-04-18T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T00:02:23","slug":"love-god-and-treat-people-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15575\/love-god-and-treat-people-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Love God and treat people right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hey, Pastor John.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last night\u2019s meeting was really sweet for a few reasons! The minute I walked in I felt like I belonged. I felt like I did 24 years ago, that this is my family and everyone\u00a0loves me and Jesus wants me here. I realized I was happy. When I got prayed for, this time it was, &#8220;Here&#8217;s me.&#8221; And that&#8217;s it. It was a blessing to me for Jesus to let me feel comfort and peace from him&#8230;for him to care enough about me!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You said so many good things that I wish I would have written them down during the meeting. One thing that stood out that I loved is when you said that &#8220;God had our names written down since before the foundation of the world, and he waited all this time for us. Let&#8217;s make Him happy that He waited&#8221; (paraphrased and maybe I added some, but that&#8217;s how it felt). That&#8217;s my heart&#8217;s desire!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In my Bible time with Clara&#8217;s class this morning, we got to the part of the 10 commandments and we wrote in easier words what they mean. When we were done, I told them, &#8220;Wow, God really made things easy for us. All He said to do was love Him and treat people right.&#8221; There was nothing (and is nothing) that He has asked people to do that is too hard. He knows how weak we are and that we can&#8217;t do anything much without Him anyway, but He wanted us to have at least something that our little selves could strive for and feel like we were doing. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Even the smallest bit of direction is helpful, even if we still need His help to do it! I&#8217;m thankful this morning for those feelings last night and wanted to share.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Leah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Comments welcome:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1913382344121032730\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1913382344121032730<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Pastor John. Last night\u2019s meeting was really sweet for a few reasons! The minute I walked in I felt like I belonged. I felt like I did 24 years ago, that this is my family and everyone\u00a0loves me and Jesus wants me here. I realized I was happy. When I got prayed for, this [&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-15575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575"}],"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=15575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15577,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions\/15577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}