{"id":294,"date":"2009-02-26T19:27:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T23:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=294"},"modified":"2009-02-26T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T23:27:39","slug":"the-blessing-of-a-clean-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/294\/the-blessing-of-a-clean-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of a Clean Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I was looking at some of the pictures on our Facebooks this morning.\u00a0 I just happened to land on Bro. Gary’s little video of him playing on guitar the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and tears began to flow.\u00a0 It wasn’t the song alone, for there were no words.\u00a0 But it was the feeling – –\u00a0how wonderfully clean and innocent\u00a0it felt and how blessed we are to be surrounded by things and hearts that are clean.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought about the day we will live forever with the Father and the Son, never again to have to guard our hearts against anything unclean or unholy.\u00a0 What is it worth to have a life in the truth where you don’t have to be afraid of what your children may be subjected to, a life where you can live and trust in the simplicity and pureness of the things of God; a life where you can trust the hearts around you?\u00a0 That is why we must protect this precious life in God\u00a0by loving His righteous judgments, His order, and His government\u00a0that keeps us from the poaching spirits that lie\u00a0in wait to get in.\u00a0\u00a0I read this in Ezekiel 22 this morning:<\/span><\/p>\n

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And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
\nTherefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How blessed we are to have the order and government of God that places\u00a0an anointed man over us as His\u00a0means of protection and defense, the anointed man\u00a0who declares the boundaries and limits of God that keep us from being destroyed.\u00a0 God is good!\u00a0 Our own ways will destroy us if we do not love where God has put us and the order that He has declared.\u00a0 I noticed in Ezekiel, He didn’t search for a doctrine, He searched for a man.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thank Him for this clean feeling that\u00a0I am feeling this morning.\u00a0 It is precious and to be cherished.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Bro. John: I was looking at some of the pictures on our Facebooks this morning.\u00a0 I just happened to land on Bro. Gary’s little video of him playing on guitar the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and tears began to flow.\u00a0 It wasn’t the song alone, for there were no words.\u00a0 But it was the […]<\/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-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}