{"id":16126,"date":"2026-05-05T09:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:58:03","slug":"thanks-for-our-morning-bible-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16126\/thanks-for-our-morning-bible-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for our morning Bible readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you for all the time you have given to prepare these readings each morning.\u00a0 I have been very blessed and humbled to go through the Old Testament and the Old Testament prophets (<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_translation.html\">Going to Jesus.com &#8211; Bible Translations<\/a><\/span>) especially, as amazingly quickly as we have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s been wonderful to go over these things together.\u00a0 I have been extremely humbled\u00a0<u>especially<\/u>\u00a0to read the prophets over the past days because I am reminded (if I ever really knew it at all), just how much I DON&#8217;T understand about what these holy men got, and passed on, from Jehovah.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t understand most of what they are talking about.\u00a0 It has made me want to get still and learn more of God and the Spirit they had.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At one point these prophets, several at least, have said things like &#8220;<u>woe<\/u>\u00a0to the shepherds who have abused and not taken care of the sheep, and have led them astray, etc.&#8221;\u00a0 But we cannot say that John.\u00a0 You have spent your life and much time teaching us truths that God has given to you, continually and faithfully.\u00a0 Thank you for that, and for all that you do to get us ready for these readings and your teaching in general.\u00a0 I feel renewed and \u00a0nourished, in being at these morning readings with everyone and I just wanted to take this moment to thank you.\u00a0 It means a lot to my heart and I know of no better way to start each day than by what we&#8217;ve been doing.\u00a0 I am thankful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gary<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank you, Gary.\u00a0 I am so thankful for the\u00a0<u>us<\/u>\u00a0that Jesus has put together.\u00a0 My hope is that Jesus is pleased with our work.\u00a0 That is everything.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John,\u00a0 Thank you for all the time you have given to prepare these readings each morning.\u00a0 I have been very blessed and humbled to go through the Old Testament and the Old Testament prophets (Going to Jesus.com &#8211; Bible Translations) especially, as amazingly quickly as we have. It&#8217;s been wonderful to go over these things [&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-16126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126"}],"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=16126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16127,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions\/16127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}