{"id":15942,"date":"2025-09-17T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:11:16","slug":"my-thoughts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15942\/my-thoughts-today\/","title":{"rendered":"My Thoughts Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Pastor John;<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of Donna’s thoughts that our Lord gave her reminded me of some of the thoughts that I had while experiencing some of the worst physical, mental, and spiritual pain in my body than I ever had in my life. I have never had that kind of pain before and since that time during my cancer at the hospital in 2009. (https:\/\/www.pastorjohnshouse.com\/pdfs\/ingodsshadow.pdf<\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some of those thoughts (paraphrasing).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0– Are you going to get mad over feeling this pain?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0– Are you going to get so angry that you punch the wall and hurt your hand?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0– Are you going to mistreat my servants that I have set in place to help you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0– Are you going to quit (on me)?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My answer:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 No Lord, I’m not quitting, nor will I be angry. I won’t mistreat your servants and I’m \u00a0\u00a0not getting mad at you or anyone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This was at about 2:45 PM talking with the Lord. At 2:55, I heard Dr. U singing in the hallway coming to my room, “I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day.”\u00a0 Within a few minutes after 3:00 PM, my test for my soul was over. I asked the Lord, “Did I drink everything in my cup that you gave me to drink?” He said, “Yes son, not a drop left.” Then, the greatest peace and joy flooded my heart knowing that I was faithful during those trying times and above all, Jesus was pleased with me. It made all of the pain and suffering from my post operation worthwhile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I do believe in my soul, that my name was written in the book of life by God before creation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I do believe that he called me.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I do believe that he gave me His spirit to feel His thoughts and His\u00a0life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I do believe that he hand-picked a little country girl named Judy to\u00a0be my love and companion these past 45 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I do believe that Jesus gave me a real, true family in God.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I do believe that Jesus will use everything at His disposal to save\u00a0me and teach me; pain, trials, misunderstanding, etc. All things\u00a0are created by Him and are used by Him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I do believe that Jesus brought me here and will keep me here with my cooperation \u00a0\u00a0and behaving myself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I do believe that I love Him and His body only because He loved me first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Love always,<\/span><\/p>\n

Billy<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/www.pastorjohnshouse.com\/pdfs\/ingodsshadow.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Pastor John; Some of Donna’s thoughts that our Lord gave her reminded me of some of the thoughts that I had while experiencing some of the worst physical, mental, and spiritual pain in my body than I ever had in my life. I have never had that kind of pain before and since […]<\/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-15942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942"}],"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=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15946,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions\/15946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}