{"id":4619,"date":"2014-06-22T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2014-06-22T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T15:37:06","slug":"thoughts-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4619\/thoughts-in-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts in the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">This morning I remembered that during the night, I saw an ax being sharpened. At the same time, in my sleep, I was thinking of the verse, &#8220;And now also the\u00a0ax\u00a0is laid unto the root of the trees\u200b,&#8221; and I could see the ax head being laid on the ground at the base of a tree.\u00a0 Also, I remember learning (in my sleep) the understanding and truth of this verse from Romans 9:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">[20] Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">[21] Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">[22] What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">[23] And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">[24] Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I don&#8217;t know exactly what I learned during the night, but I know that it was on my insides that I was learning it. \u00a0It makes me feel very quiet\u200b, and still \u200bdoes now\u200b, as I\u00a0think on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Donna\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, This morning I remembered that during the night, I saw an ax being sharpened. At the same time, in my sleep, I was thinking of the verse, &#8220;And now also the\u00a0ax\u00a0is laid unto the root of the trees\u200b,&#8221; and I could see the ax head being laid on the ground at the base [&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-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619"}],"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=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}