{"id":4380,"date":"2014-03-21T17:50:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2014-03-21T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:50:57","slug":"sweet-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4380\/sweet-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Mornin&#8217; Bro. John:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I just woke up from a sweet, wonderful dream.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In the dream, we were all in a meeting and Aunt Leatha was there.\u00a0 She was testifying so joyfully, dancing around in thankfulness &#8220;just to be a thing of God&#8217;s&#8221;\u00a0 She was telling us that &#8220;just to be a thing of God&#8217;s&#8221; was reason enough to be thankful and joyful in the Lord.\u00a0 The feelings were so sweet.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I remember years ago when the Lord told me &#8220;you are not a\u00a0<em><strong>product<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0of that union anymore&#8221; concerning my earthly parents.\u00a0 I thought &#8220;a product?!&#8221;\u00a0 The Lord just called me a product!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 But that is exactly what we are &#8211; products &#8211; things created and owned by God!\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that wonderful!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I looked up the word &#8220;thing&#8221; for a fuller understanding and here&#8217;s what I found:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">&#8220;<em>whatever may be possessed or owned or be the object of a right<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We are possessed and owned by the Creator of All.\u00a0 Being called a &#8220;thing of God&#8217;s&#8221; is a wonderful label to have.\u00a0 And that was Aunt Leatha&#8217;s point in the dream.\u00a0 If you can think of no other reason to praise God today, be thankful that you are His &#8220;thing&#8221;!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What a wonderful\u00a0thought to start the day!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>Sandy<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>&#8220;a thing of God&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mornin&#8217; Bro. John: \u00a0 I just woke up from a sweet, wonderful dream. \u00a0 In the dream, we were all in a meeting and Aunt Leatha was there.\u00a0 She was testifying so joyfully, dancing around in thankfulness &#8220;just to be a thing of God&#8217;s&#8221;\u00a0 She was telling us that &#8220;just to be a thing of [&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-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380"}],"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=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}