{"id":1750,"date":"2011-03-05T14:39:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2011-03-05T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T14:39:40","slug":"not-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1750\/not-in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Not in Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Today I was in the kitchen doing the dishes. This commercial came on it was an advertisement for a big tent-like meeting place you can rent. I had this thought: &#8220;I wish we could fill that place with folks getting the holy ghost.&#8221; Then I heard the spirit say, &#8220;Then what?&#8221; As I was standing there, it was if I was having conversation with God. It wasn&#8217;t that the thought was bad, but really &#8220;Then what?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I don&#8217;t believe God is expecting any big thing either. I know you have told us what he told you about &#8220;neither expect nor desire any big thing, but make your work perfect.&#8221; The feelings I was having was that He is not expecting any big thing, but he is going to have perfection. We have seen that lately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It just did something to me on the inside. His ways are not like we think. We are not going to save the world!! He is not in numbers; never has been. Driving down the road thinking on this today. All the way through, it has never been a big thing!! Only eight people saved in the flood! Only 2 of the 603,550 in the first Numbering that lived to see canaan&#8217;s land (Joahua and Caleb). Only 120 on the day of Pentecost!! Tonight I was praying and the spirit said, &#8220;Teach this to your children over and over, until it&#8217;s like the breath they breathe. It is their life!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jammie<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Today I was in the kitchen doing the dishes. This commercial came on it was an advertisement for a big tent-like meeting place you can rent. I had this thought: &#8220;I wish we could fill that place with folks getting the holy ghost.&#8221; Then I heard the spirit say, &#8220;Then what?&#8221; As I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750"}],"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=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}