{"id":1961,"date":"2011-09-22T09:28:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T09:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2011-09-22T09:28:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T09:28:04","slug":"a-new-experience-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1961\/a-new-experience-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A new experience for me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I had an experience from Jesus this morning that I had never had before. I awoke at 1:25 am and could not go back to sleep. So I got up and went to the living room and lay on the couch and talked to the Lord. I was having thoughts when talking to Him that I wanted to be closer to Him than I had ever been and I wanted Him to fix whatever needed to be fixed so we could be so close that I could talk to him like Moses did. While talking to the Lord I could not get situated so I knelt beside the couch, then I got on my hands and knees and finally I was standing praising Him and speaking in tongues. While standing I was having feelings stronger than I had ever felt that he really was King and Lord and my Savior. When I finally laid back down on the couch I was still having those feeling and thoughts. Then I had a new experience from the Lord I had never had before. I realized there was a sweet smelling aroma in the room that I had never smelled before. (I was not asleep or dreaming, I was wide awake.) The sweet smell stayed for a while and gradually faded away as the strong feeling of who Jesus is faded away. Even though I knew that I had had an experience with Jesus it was like I was in shock by what happened. I started smelling my hands and around the room to see if the smell was still there but it was gone. Then I went back to bed at 2:24 am and lay there thinking about what had happened until I drifted off to sleep. I remember wondering if the Lord had come so close that the sweet smell filling the room was His presence?<\/span><\/p>\n

Randell<\/span><\/p>\n

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It sounds like it to me, Randell. My, what a glorious experience! I think it was for all of us, even though it was given to you. Thanks for the testimony.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor John, I had an experience from Jesus this morning that I had never had before. I awoke at 1:25 am and could not go back to sleep. So I got up and went to the living room and lay on the couch and talked to the Lord. I was having thoughts when talking to […]<\/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-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961"}],"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=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}