{"id":15613,"date":"2025-04-24T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15613"},"modified":"2025-04-26T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:44:45","slug":"thoughts-from-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15613\/thoughts-from-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

A few thoughts and points you have made in sermons have been resonating with me this week after Sunday\/Wednesdays\u2019 meetings:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. How much God loves us and his people!\u00a0The feelings from our last two times together continue to resonate with me.\u00a0\u00a0Every testimony, every blessing validates how much He really does love us,\u00a0to put us together and take care of each one of us.\u00a0\u00a0We have been treated in a heavenly manner, we love God\u2019s government and order because it\u2019s so full of love!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The power of our prayers.\u00a0God puts it on our hearts to pray and, when we do it, He responds.\u00a0\u00a0It may not be immediate, but He is listening,\u00a0and we have seen the power of prayer in action over and over again.\u00a0\u00a0God\u2019s response is so much better than we ever could have anticipated.\u00a0\u00a0He wants us to anticipate good things for our lives and a response to our prayers.\u00a0\u00a0If we have an unanswered prayer,\u00a0and if He hasn\u2019t told us to stop praying about it, we need to keep knocking because we need to have the faith to anticipate an answer and be available to rejoice in that answer together.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s like you said before, we need to have patience because God is doing something.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. All the examples of God\u2019s people who are lost without the knowledge of the truth.\u00a0The more we learn, we love and hurt for them even more because the freedom we have is worth everything.\u00a0\u00a0There was a thought for the evening recently: \u201cThere is no reason to quit God.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0But, I like to think about the opposite: \u201cThere is every reason to continue with God.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s like you said, \u201cGive me liberty. (End of story)\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The truth is that you have liberty in the spirit or you put yourself at risk of death.\u00a0\u00a0We can live!\u00a0\u00a0Forever!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Your father said in a sermon I recently listening to that there were five wise and five foolish virgins;\u00a0so,\u00a0half of God\u2019s people may not enter in.\u00a0\u00a0It is such a narrow way!\u00a0\u00a0I think that as one learns more, it gets even narrower because you get closer to God and He expects more.\u00a0But, He gives you the knowledge and tools with the\u00a0Spirit to grow so you can do it with Him.\u00a0\u00a0So, let\u2019s grow and learn how to be wise together forever with Him! \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

    -Wendy\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

    https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1916261859294122015<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Hi Pastor John, A few thoughts and points you have made in sermons have been resonating with me this week after Sunday\/Wednesdays\u2019 meetings:\u00a0 How much God loves us and his people!\u00a0The feelings from our last two times together continue to resonate with me.\u00a0\u00a0Every testimony, every blessing validates how much He really does love us,\u00a0to put […]<\/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-15613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613"}],"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=15613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15616,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions\/15616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}