{"id":522,"date":"2009-09-27T22:22:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-09-27T22:22:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:22:33","slug":"understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/522\/understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The things I have been seeing and feeling every since the Labor Day weekend are wonderful to me.\u00a0 I value what God has been doing for us and teaching us.\u00a0 I see clearer than ever how evil it is to worship any other way than in spirit and in truth.\u00a0 In Hosea 4:6, God said through Hosea, &#8220;My people are destroyed for lack of\u00a0 knowledge.&#8221;\u00a0 And in Proverbs 4:7, Solomon said, &#8220;Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom.\u00a0 With all your getting, get understanding.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have always prayed, \u201cGod, let me do what is right even if I don\u2019t understand what I am doing.\u201d That is good, but how much better it is to understand what I am doing, and why, and what it means to God&#8217;s people.\u00a0 How important it is to keep the commandments of God, and it is a commandment to worship him in spirit and truth and not in doctrines and commandments of men and their tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I can see clearer how evil it really is to continue in something you know is not of God, just because of tradition and doctrines and commandments of men.\u00a0 God&#8217;s people need us to stand fast in what he is letting us understand for their sake, and ours.\u00a0 Understanding gives us strength and freedom from anything that God is not in, and the strength to say so, no matter what anyone else believes or doesn\u2019t believe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John, I am so thankful that God has sent an anointed man such as you to help me and all his people that take it in.\u00a0 All the understanding and knowledge that He has given you to teach us is more valuable than most of us realize at times.\u00a0 I thank you for helping me understand what I feel and love so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Stuart<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John, The things I have been seeing and feeling every since the Labor Day weekend are wonderful to me.\u00a0 I value what God has been doing for us and teaching us.\u00a0 I see clearer than ever how evil it is to worship any other way than in spirit and in truth.\u00a0 In Hosea 4:6, [&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-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}