{"id":4338,"date":"2014-03-05T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2014-03-05T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:57:54","slug":"two-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4338\/two-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Two ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was in the shower praying this morning, when the Spirit spoke to me and said, &#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between you having children and God giving you children. Abraham had Ishmael, and God gave him Isaac.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I thought about this all day. \u00a0It&#8217;s the same way with anything. \u00a0You can have a family, or God can give you one. He makes all the difference!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jammie C<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, Jammie, that is a good testimony. \u00a0Let me add this note of caution, however.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Many times, as you know , people have what they have because they are disobedient to God. \u00a0But there need not always be evil involved in someone &#8220;having children&#8221; instead of God miraculously giving them children, or in simply having a family, or a car, or anything else.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>When God miraculously gives us anything, it is a great blessing. \u00a0But He often gives us choices as to what we would have, and when He does, He blesses whatever choice we make.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Thanks for telling us what you heard from the Lord today. I love testimonies like that.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I was in the shower praying this morning, when the Spirit spoke to me and said, &#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between you having children and God giving you children. Abraham had Ishmael, and God gave him Isaac.&#8221; I thought about this all day. \u00a0It&#8217;s the same way with anything. \u00a0You can have a family, [&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-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338"}],"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=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}