{"id":16311,"date":"2026-10-02T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16311"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:54:35","slug":"when-believing-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16311\/when-believing-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"When believing ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I had some wonderful thoughts and feelings yesterday evening, and I\u2019m not sure how to say what I\u2019m feeling here. \u00a0Will you help me?\u00a0 I feel like something is right in front of me, but I can\u2019t quite get a handle on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

It happened while I was listening to your \u201cKings\u201d videos on Vince\u2019s YouTube\u00a0channel, “TheSpiritIstheWitness”.* \u00a0I don\u2019t remember exactly how you said it, but it was something like, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to figure out your place in the body. \u00a0You just walk in the Spirit, and you\u2019ll realize one day that you\u2019ve been in your place.\u201d \u00a0And, \u201cGod doesn\u2019t make mistakes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That also brought to my memory what you\u2019ve said in meetings: \u201cJesus gave you the feelings you have,\u201d and\u00a0\u201cYou didn\u2019t do this… and\u00a0you can\u2019t take credit for it,\u201d etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trying to articulate the feelings, I compared it to a job promotion I received once. \u00a0When management met with me to tell me I got the job, I took them at their word. \u00a0I left there with a start date, and never doubted that the job was mine, even though I hadn\u2019t started yet. \u00a0I was trained in how to do the job, and once I transferred to it,\u00a0believing it happened wasn\u2019t even a thought.\u00a0 I was just there. \u00a0I simply obeyed and fulfilled the requirements of that role \u2013 though, early on, I felt like an imposter, as I felt unqualified.. and technically, I was.<\/span><\/p>\n

I like how King Hezekiah acted early on, how he was so young and called those old men \u201csons.\u201d \u00a0He believed, learned his role, and when he saw and understood it, he was all-in.<\/span><\/p>\n

That made me think that once God puts you somewhere, it\u2019s done. \u00a0There\u2019s a point when you are not supposed to keep believing that He did it anymore; you just live from it and obey. \u00a0When God puts me somewhere, it is no mistake. T\u00a0hat\u2019s the best place now and forever, unless God changes it. \u00a0That\u2019s simply where I am at now, and I must live that as truly as my nose has been put on my face.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if I or someone thought it was a mistake, it\u2019s because we\u2019re trying to take credit for something God did, for the feelings He established in my heart. \u00a0If I doubt myself or anyone, I start rebelling against God\u2019s order in the kingdom, regardless of our position within the body.<\/span><\/p>\n

To obey those feelings Jesus put in my heart, the desire to really, really want to love Him and His people, the desire to know the truth about the One who created all things, He put them there, not me. \u00a0It’s\u00a0as if my heart was birthed from those feelings, and I must dwell in that place if I’m to live in perfect love.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have had a few very strong desires in my heart that I\u2019ve asked the Lord to fulfill in my life. \u00a0And until yesterday, I didn\u2019t realize there was this one in there: to stop believing. \u00a0I don\u2019t mean I want to stop believing in Jesus. \u00a0I mean I don\u2019t want to keep believing that something is true after He has already done it. \u00a0I want to live it, and pursue the things\u00a0I cannot receive in this life.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know I have heard all this before, but I feel like something is coming into focus that\u00a0I’ve\u00a0missed. \u00a0I wish I could word this better but don\u2019t know how. What am I feeling here??<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope you are well,<\/span><\/p>\n

-Johnny<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi Johnny.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I dont think you need any help expressing what you are feeling and seeing.\u00a0 That is so good!\u00a0 What you have written can hardly be improved upon.\u00a0 Go ahead and live that way.\u00a0 I wish that all of God’s children everywhere could see that what Jesus (not church religion) has done for them in the holy Ghost is perfect and that they can rest in that holy work.\u00a0 Seeing what you are seeing and trusting God like that will make you invaluable to the saints around you and will lead you into eternal happiness!\u00a0 Let’s go there together!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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

* The Kings – part 1\/18 – John D. Clark, Sr.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hey John, I had some wonderful thoughts and feelings yesterday evening, and I\u2019m not sure how to say what I\u2019m feeling here. \u00a0Will you help me?\u00a0 I feel like something is right in front of me, but I can\u2019t quite get a handle on it. It happened while I was listening to your \u201cKings\u201d videos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311"}],"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=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16312,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions\/16312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}