{"id":15734,"date":"2025-05-18T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15734"},"modified":"2025-05-19T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:46:25","slug":"gods-love-is-eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15734\/gods-love-is-eternal\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s love is eternal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today was wonderful!\u00a0\u00a0I feel like the room levitated,\u00a0and no words would appropriately express the feeling of joy and God\u2019s love together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was sitting here thinking about\u00a01John 4:19\u00a0(&#8220;We love Him because He first loved us&#8221;)\u00a0because God gave me this feeling\/thought during Brother Billy\u2019s testimony of all of us flying together under God\u2019s wing of love and mercy.\u00a0\u00a0That togetherness was emphasized in this thought\/feeling.\u00a0\u00a0Each testimony is\u00a0<em>our<\/em>\u00a0testimony,\u00a0and we feel the feelings of them together!\u00a0\u00a0Then it occurred to me how eternal God\u2019s love is for us.\u00a0\u00a0He first loved us, yes; but, it was love from the beginning of creation.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not that He started loving us yesterday,\u00a0or a few decades ago, or even the day we received the holy Spirit.\u00a0\u00a0He knew our hearts and was waiting for us to get here to this earth, and most importantly, to be born into His kingdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then, I read\u00a01John 4:16\u00a0(&#8220;We have known and have believed the love that God has for us.&#8221;),\u00a0and\u00a0the parallel\u00a0struck me of what we have been taught recently about believing Jesus\u00a0and\u00a0then receiving\u00a0a reward from diligently seeking him.\u00a0\u00a0That verse\u00a0in 1John\u00a0says we not only believe the love of God, but we\u00a0also\u00a0have\u00a0<em>known<\/em>\u00a0it.\u00a0\u00a0You cannot know it without believing it first,\u00a0and\u00a0then\u00a0receiving the reward of love that God has for us by obeying Him.\u00a0\u00a0Being a part of the family of God is eternal, and God\u2019s love\u00a0for us\u00a0has always been eternal.\u00a0\u00a0And, if we take care of each others\u2019 hearts by obeying God, we will continue to be rewarded with even more unity and love together.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendy<\/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\/1924461452296905132\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1924461452296905132<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, Today was wonderful!\u00a0\u00a0I feel like the room levitated,\u00a0and no words would appropriately express the feeling of joy and God\u2019s love together.\u00a0 I was sitting here thinking about\u00a01John 4:19\u00a0(&#8220;We love Him because He first loved us&#8221;)\u00a0because God gave me this feeling\/thought during Brother Billy\u2019s testimony of all of us flying together under God\u2019s [&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-15734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734"}],"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=15734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15736,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734\/revisions\/15736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}