{"id":16260,"date":"2026-08-22T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16260"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:31:18","slug":"proving-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16260\/proving-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Proving Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I have had a little something on my mind and Jesus has been very plain and straight with me recently!\u00a0\u00a0During the meeting on Wednesday,\u00a0I was talking to Jesus and I was asking him to give me opportunities\u00a0to prove myself.\u00a0\u00a0I don’t want anyone to be wondering about me.\u00a0\u00a0This really goes for everyone, if someone goes out and dances\u00a0in the Spirit\u00a0or testifies,\u00a0I don’t want to be surprised;\u00a0I want to think\u00a0“oh there they go again!\u00a0\u00a0Amen!”\u00a0\u00a0Tonight,\u00a0I was thinking about that again,\u00a0and I heard Jesus tell me something like this, “Every time you feel me move, you can prove yourself!”\u00a0\u00a0And then I went on to think,\u00a0every time we\u00a0don’t go with the spirit,\u00a0we are losing our chance;\u00a0someone is going to take our blessing!\u00a0\u00a0The more and more we drift away,\u00a0the more people start to wonder about us!\u00a0\u00a0I don’t want people to wonder about me,\u00a0and I want to prove myself and live in the Spirit!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Recently, I feel like many people have been telling us teenagers that we need to go with our feelings and that we aren’t too young!\u00a0\u00a0I feel as though those thoughts of being too young can really deter us sometimes.\u00a0\u00a0But I’m starting to\u00a0realize we are not too young to feel anything,\u00a0and we are not too young to prove ourselves.\u00a0\u00a0I am expecting lots and lots of more trials to come but we might as well practice early!\u00a0\u00a0Everything has just been feeling so good lately!\u00a0\u00a0I’m excited \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace C.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am happy and excited for you, Grace.\u00a0 Thank you for writing!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey Pastor John,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I have had a little something on my mind and Jesus has been very plain and straight with me recently!\u00a0\u00a0During the meeting on Wednesday,\u00a0I was talking to Jesus and I was asking him to give me opportunities\u00a0to prove myself.\u00a0\u00a0I don’t want anyone to be wondering about me.\u00a0\u00a0This really goes for […]<\/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-16260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260"}],"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=16260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16261,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260\/revisions\/16261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}