{"id":15774,"date":"2025-05-27T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15774"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:28:40","slug":"open-and-shutting-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15774\/open-and-shutting-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Open and Shutting the Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was reading the random thought of the day today\u00a0and it was talking about Jesus opening and shutting the door.\u00a0(<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=rdt05-27\">https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=rdt05-27<\/a><\/span>) It also talks about Jesus shutting himself, not just the door.\u00a0 I was praying and I asked Jesus, &#8220;Will you ever shut your heart towards me?&#8221;\u00a0 His response was &#8220;Not if you don&#8217;t shut yours to me.&#8221;\u00a0 That meant so much, and then I asked, &#8220;Would you ever reopen it?&#8221; and he answered, &#8220;If you reopen yours to me.&#8221;\u00a0 This just meant so much to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And then, the reassurance\u00a0at the end was so sweet\u00a0when it was saying if you have any curiosity\u00a0or any feelings about God, he is open for you.\u00a0 That also gave me hope for all the people who\u00a0have done the wrong thing, but all it would take is for them to reopen their heart to Jesus.\u00a0 I thought I would just write and tell you how much this meant \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Grace C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for this, Grace.\u00a0 The mercy that God has for people reaches to the clouds, and He is so very eager to bless us all with it!\u00a0 Let us always keep our hearts open to Jesus.\u00a0 He loves us.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/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\/1929530402349162806\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1929530402349162806<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John, I was reading the random thought of the day today\u00a0and it was talking about Jesus opening and shutting the door.\u00a0(https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=rdt05-27) It also talks about Jesus shutting himself, not just the door.\u00a0 I was praying and I asked Jesus, &#8220;Will you ever shut your heart towards me?&#8221;\u00a0 His response was &#8220;Not if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774"}],"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=15774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15777,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774\/revisions\/15777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}