{"id":2544,"date":"2012-05-30T04:16:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T04:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2012-05-30T04:16:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T04:16:01","slug":"sandy-whew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2544\/sandy-whew\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy &#8211; whew!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bro. John:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I could not read the line from your email, below*, without thinking of what the Lord told me several years ago when I was listening to my mother go on about her past and the bitterness I felt coming from her concerning her past life. I remember silently telling Jesus that I did not want to be like that when I got older, carrying all that old stuff from the past around in my heart. No sooner had my heart reached out to him when I tenderly heard, &#8220;<em>You are not a product of that (earthly) union anymore<\/em>&#8220;. Whew! Talk about a liberating feeling! I floated home in the arms of Jesus that day. That was when he showed us that we have a &#8220;new past&#8221; and to live in it! Oh, to believe in who we are and not struggle against something we are not. Whew! It is good, good, good!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">*&#8221;You&#8217;re struggling against something you&#8217;re not, not against something you are.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Sandy \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bro. John: I could not read the line from your email, below*, without thinking of what the Lord told me several years ago when I was listening to my mother go on about her past and the bitterness I felt coming from her concerning her past life. I remember silently telling Jesus that I did [&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-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544"}],"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=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}