{"id":16016,"date":"2026-01-07T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16016"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:38:11","slug":"conversation-tuesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16016\/conversation-tuesday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation Tuesday morning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hey, I love the thoughts you told us Tuesday morning about tapping into the love of God and believing that Jesus WANTS to heal us!\u00a0 I immediately thought about your translation of the story in Matthew 8:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And behold, a leper came and bowed before him, saying, \u201cSir, if you want to, you can make me clean.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And Jesus stretched forth his hand and touched him, saying, \u201cI do want to. Be clean!\u201d And his leprosy was immediately cleansed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019ve always loved that story, especially the way you translated here because it relays the love of Jesus so well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The feelings were so good, that afterwards, I was praying and talking to the Lord.\u00a0 I started off by saying \u201cLord, help us get to where you are.\u201d \u00a0And then, he started talking to me.\u00a0 He said, \u201cDon\u2019t get accustomed to &#8216;bad things&#8217; in your house.\u00a0 Get accustomed to good things in your house.\u201d And then\u2026.he paused, and sweetly said, \u201cLike me. :).\u00a0 If you have your mind on Me, there are no &#8216;bad things&#8217; because I am good.\u201d \u00a0That immediately turned my thoughts to \u201call things\u201d and the message that \u201call things work together for good to those who love God.\u201d \u00a0If we are living our everyday life with Jesus in the forefront, the good things override the \u201cbad things\u201d we deal with in this life.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t go through things or have concerns, but his goodness carries us through.\u00a0\u00a0There was a lot of love in that.\u00a0 I spoke right back to him and said \u201cThat is good\u201d \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0It was a sweet conversation\u2026.well, actually, he was talking, I was just listening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reminds me of this scripture: &#8220;It is our Father\u2019s good pleasure to give us the kingdom.\u201d \u00a0Because He WANTS to!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sweet!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amy B<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I love the thoughts you told us Tuesday morning about tapping into the love of God and believing that Jesus WANTS to heal us!\u00a0 I immediately thought about your translation of the story in Matthew 8: And behold, a leper came and bowed before him, saying, \u201cSir, if you want to, you can make [&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-16016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016"}],"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=16016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16017,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions\/16017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}