{"id":5616,"date":"2015-03-22T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5616"},"modified":"2015-03-22T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T20:58:18","slug":"from-the-father-and-the-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5616\/from-the-father-and-the-son\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Father and the Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hello Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> I just wanted to let you know that the last couple of days were pretty hard for me spiritually and emotionally, but about half an hour ago the Lord lifted up the heaviness from my spirit. \u00a0I received some encouraging messages from some of you, and I have the peace of the Lord in my heart right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Also, I was reminded of the words of John the apostle:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;To the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth,\u00a0because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever&#8221; (2 John 1-2)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> The Lord showed me through this scripture, that there is a special kind of love binding together those who, by God&#8217;s grace, know the truth. That we love each other\u00a0&#8220;because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever&#8221;. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know how it all works, but somehow it is so much more than just theology. \u00a0It is the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Also, you must have read some of the messages I received because of my confession about not believing in the trinity, and believing that the Father is greater than Jesus. \u00a0Well, this morning I started reading Philippians, and I felt God smiling at me and speaking to personally to me as I read the words of Paul:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ&#8221;\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Thank you for all the prayers and support!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Zoli<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>God is with you, Zoli. \u00a0I marvel at the grace being shown to you, and at the joy with which you receive His Word. \u00a0You make this little flock happy, and we are encouraged by your faith. \u00a0There is a reward from God for that, surely.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>We have been praying for your mother, that she will continue to feel good things from the Lord and that she will follow you into the kingdom of God soon.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>&#8220;Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Pastor John, I just wanted to let you know that the last couple of days were pretty hard for me spiritually and emotionally, but about half an hour ago the Lord lifted up the heaviness from my spirit. \u00a0I received some encouraging messages from some of you, and I have the peace of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616"}],"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=5616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}