{"id":16257,"date":"2026-08-20T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16257"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:12:10","slug":"our-place-is-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16257\/our-place-is-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Our &#8220;Place&#8221; is us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This evening when you were telling us about God putting us here together and being put here for a reason, it made me think of something you wrote in \u201cGod Had a Son Before Mary Did\u201d book: (<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=fands\">Going to Jesus.com &#8211; God Had A Son Before Mary Did<\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cGod\u2018s children are happiest when they occupy their appointed place in the order of God and acknowledge the places occupied by others.\u00a0\u00a0When you are in the place that you were created to be, you feel contentment, for your place is not an it.\u00a0\u00a0Your place is a who\u00a0\u2013 you!\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cplace\u201d God has for you is your life as the person God intended you to be from the foundation of the world.\u00a0\u00a0Only in that place, only in being yourself in Christ, will you ever experience perfect peace and joy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I remember when I read this I had the same feelings as when I learned our names were written in the book of life before the foundation of the world\u00a0\u2013\u00a0very loved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He knows us, and what\u00a0we need,\u00a0and\u00a0what we don\u2019t need.\u00a0 He knows how to make us happy!\u00a0 He\u2019s got each of our lives perfectly planned for us.\u00a0 Mistakes and all.\u00a0 That is perfect love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michelle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, This evening when you were telling us about God putting us here together and being put here for a reason, it made me think of something you wrote in \u201cGod Had a Son Before Mary Did\u201d book: (Going to Jesus.com &#8211; God Had A Son Before Mary Did) \u201cGod\u2018s children are happiest when [&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-16257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257"}],"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=16257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16258,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions\/16258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}