{"id":5239,"date":"2014-12-24T14:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2014-12-24T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:12:50","slug":"suffering-and-the-saints-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5239\/suffering-and-the-saints-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering and the Saints book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I sure do love this book! \u00a0I’m so glad you had time to write it and edit it and print it again! \u00a0I read through the first parts of chapter 8 yesterday and was in tears telling about it. \u00a0I read about Josiah becoming king and having a heart to want to do right and live right, and having a little bit of knowledge of God, with just a few people around him that knew anything. \u00a0There was something in his heart for God from the beginning, and when Moses’ law (that had been lost for decades) was found and he read it, his love for a truth that he really didn’t know grew all the more! \u00a0He didn’t think things about God and then read real events from Moses’ law and think, “Aw man, that’s not how I thought God was”, or “Oh no, I didn’t know He’d be that hard!” \u00a0He loved everything he read, and it made him change things! \u00a0Reading that story made me want to be sure I had a heart that is free to believe whatever God tells me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It also made me think about my sons, and raising them with a true heart for God…and a love that will grow with every new thought and experience! There is a really sweet feeling to a heart like that. \u00a0Where can you find such men? <\/span><\/p>\n

I read about the sweet feelings Josiah must have had, reading in the law about God telling His people how he would take care of them if they would only obey and love Him. \u00a0Then his feelings changed to anger because of what was going on! \u00a0Then, when Josiah read about curses from God if people don’t love and obey Him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then the last thing I read before my boys woke up from their nap was God saying that if people would just admit what they did and turn from sin, He would take care of them and send them pastors after His own heart! \u00a0I felt so thankful for you, and I had an overwhelming feeling of thankfulness to even be here, to even read what I was reading, to know what I know, to feel what I feel, to have feelings when something is wrong and have a desire to fix it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere in all that, I stopped reading and thanked Jesus for eyes! Eyes to see my children and take care of a house and family. And for ears to hear my family. And for a body that works to take care of them. \u00a0And for help financially lately with everything … perfect in timing, always! \u00a0Reading Josiah’s story triggered a strong desire to make my every day, and everything I do, reflect how thankful I am.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure most of this book has just made me feel so thankful, and feel loved, but it was still good yesterday. Eleven years ago, I was in a car accident that probably could have and would have killed me … “but God”. How can I not be thankful, and live a life worthy of the blessing of life that He has given me?! \u00a0My prayer now is that Jesus will help me do that!<\/span><\/p>\n

So, thank you again for the book… We’ll see what’s in the next chapters \ud83d\ude42 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/suffering-and-the-saints.html \u00a0 Pastor John, I sure do love this book! \u00a0I’m so glad you had time to write it and edit it and print it again! \u00a0I read through the first parts of chapter 8 yesterday and was in tears telling about it. \u00a0I read about Josiah becoming king and having a heart to want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239"}],"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=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}