{"id":16235,"date":"2026-07-25T20:09:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16235"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:10:23","slug":"living-testimonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16235\/living-testimonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Testimonies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, Pastor John, I love how Jesus does things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As I sat and listened this morning, I felt like He painted a whole picture for me.\u00a0\u00a0All those people who saw Paul go from killing God\u2019s people to doing everything he could to tell them about Jesus had the clearest, purest doctrine poured out,\u00a0right in front of them.\u00a0\u00a0A living testimony..\u00a0\u00a0I thought of my children, my loved ones, and the ones I work with \u2014 seeing the real doctrine lived out in front of them over and over again.\u00a0\u00a0My brothers and sisters watched Jesus raise the dead\u00a0(me)\u00a0and give life more abundantly right in front of them, and I was just the vessel he used to do it.\u00a0\u00a0But they have all witnessed the truth.\u00a0\u00a0The things written in the scriptures played out like a movie before their eyes\u00a0<\/strong>because it was not from a stranger;\u00a0it was real and put right in front of them.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus gave them proof he is real!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We walk through this life like little lamps for anyone Jesus wants to show the truth to.\u00a0\u00a0Nobody but Jesus could build something more beautiful or more merciful than filling this world with the truth walking around for people to see and feel\u00a0\u2026\u00a0if they want it.\u00a0\u00a0And what mercy for us,\u00a0that the truth exposes hearts.\u00a0We get to rest in the peace seeing a heart does not want it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Will anyone be able to say they did not hear the doctrine?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Look how much light gathers in one place when we are all together, full of truth and praising God.\u00a0\u00a0I wish I could paint the picture I see in my heart.\u00a0\u00a0All of us with little lights shining as we go to work or to the grocery or to Walmart.\u00a0\u00a0Ha! I\u00a0\u00a0guess we are solar lights, getting all our light from soaking up the Son!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And we do not even\u00a0 have to do anything but stay close to Jesus so He can use us to shine down here in this old dark world.\u00a0\u00a0Nobody could do it more perfectly than Jesus did.\u00a0\u00a0He gave us all our best chance. Living breathing testimonies of the truth!\u00a0\u00a0Isn’t that beautiful!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Makes me want to be full and shiny for Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mathew 5<\/span><\/p>\n

14.Y<\/em>ou are the light of the world; a city set on a hill can\u2019t be hidden.<\/span><\/p>\n

15.Nor do people light a candle and then place it under a bushel, but on a lampstand, and then it gives light to all who are in the house.<\/span><\/p>\n

16.Let\u00a0y<\/em>our light shine like that before men so that they may see\u00a0y<\/em>our good works and glorify\u00a0y<\/em>our Father who is in heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Beth<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh, Pastor John, I love how Jesus does things.\u00a0 As I sat and listened this morning, I felt like He painted a whole picture for me.\u00a0\u00a0All those people who saw Paul go from killing God\u2019s people to doing everything he could to tell them about Jesus had the clearest, purest doctrine poured out,\u00a0right in front […]<\/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-16235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235"}],"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=16235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16236,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235\/revisions\/16236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}