{"id":201,"date":"2008-12-23T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=201"},"modified":"2008-12-23T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:45:42","slug":"loving-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/201\/loving-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bro. John:<\/span><\/p>\n

I had the most tender dream last night.\u00a0 I woke up just weeping for the love of God that has been given<\/em> to us, and for the ones who have yet to find it.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the dream, some visitors had come into our gathering.\u00a0 There were three of them.\u00a0 All that one of them (a man) wanted to talk about was the devil.\u00a0 He went on and on how the devil did this and the devil did that.\u00a0 It was not in any malicious way, but just how he was.\u00a0 When you heard about it, you said, “I can’t have that here.\u00a0 I just can’t have it.”\u00a0 Some of us went over to this man, and one of our sisters tenderly hugged\u00a0him and said to him, “All you have to do is love God.”\u00a0 When she said that to him,\u00a0he just started weeping like a broken little child, and saying, “I don’t know how to do that.”<\/span><\/p>\n

When I woke up, I\u00a0thought,\u00a0we don’t know how blessed we are just to be able to love God.\u00a0 It is not in our flesh to do it.\u00a0 Loving God is a gift from Him.\u00a0 For the man in the dream, it seemed as hard to love God as it was easy for him to talk about the devil.\u00a0 It had become a natural thing for him.\u00a0 God has to change our hearts, Bro. John.\u00a0 I don’t know if we really realize how much we need God to change the habits of this flesh.\u00a0 It had become a habit for that man to talk about the devil.\u00a0 He didn’t even know that loving God would take that away.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sandy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Amen, Sandy!\u00a0 God help us to spread the experience of the love of God to others – to everyone!\u00a0 His\u00a0love casts out the fear of the devil.\u00a0 More importantly, it\u00a0takes our attention off that loser and turns it to the only One who is worthy of devotion:\u00a0our mighty and wonderful God!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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