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Pastor John<\/span><\/p>\n There were so many things to digest today from last night.\u00a0 During the day, talking with Bob and Ellen, I recalled the fact that when we first came to North Carolina in May 2002 we attended our one and only “live” Old Testament class.\u00a0 And it was the night you went over the Tabernacle!\u00a0 I didn’t know that that was the class you had told students that they really had to attend.\u00a0 God knew and brought us here for it!\u00a0 Somewhere I still have the photo I took of the drawing you made on the whiteboard.\u00a0 As you talked about the “point” of it there were people shouting and praising God but I didn’t do any of that. I felt more pinned in my seat, struck with the awe and wonder of it.<\/span><\/p>\n We have been given things for God’s people that no one else has.\u00a0 These are things that will help people break free and stay free of Babylon when God touches their hearts.\u00a0 These are things that reassure and strengthen and say that it is OK.\u00a0 Things that say “this is the way, walk in it”.<\/span><\/p>\n While staying in your house that first trip I somewhere found a copy of Spiritual Light.\u00a0 Somehow in 15 months I had not come across it.\u00a0 I remember spending a quiet afternoon while getting some rest, reading it for the first time.\u00a0 What wonderful feelings!\u00a0 And either that trip or possibly the visit for Thanksgiving later in the year, Token had left the Hebrews teaching series in the bedroom and I listened to that as well.\u00a0 God used those times to give me an education in all of these wonderful things.<\/span><\/p>\n God’s people need what we have.\u00a0 I cannot believe anything else.\u00a0 Sister Betty was right.\u00a0 It is about God’s people.\u00a0 And only when my heart is fully turned over to that am I happy.\u00a0 This world is lurching around like a drunk.\u00a0 This country is in such a miserable state.\u00a0 This work God is doing and the love He has for His people here and elsewhere is the only thing I can see that is holding this country up.\u00a0 Let’s use the time we have.<\/span><\/p>\n There was a “step-up” call last night. A rebuke and then a wonderful reminder of just what God has given to us and who it came through.\u00a0 While you preached, things were happening.\u00a0 I watched Josiah be touched and moved by the Spirit of truth.\u00a0 Tonight, Sarah was telling us how she couldn’t read her book because there were so many exciting things being said.\u00a0 She was so excited telling us how she knew what pastor John was going to say happened when Jesus went in to the Father. “The Holy Ghost came!”\u00a0 During the meeting she hugged her mother and held on to her as you preached and then she wanted to be out where you were praying.<\/span><\/p>\n And then there were the feelings kneeling beside Aaron, thanking God and praying that He do His work in him and preserve him.\u00a0 That was what I was praying in bed this morning.\u00a0 How precious are these clean spirits, never sullied by Christianity and the world.\u00a0 What a wonderful blessing these young people, whose lives are entirely outside Christianity, can be to God’s children!<\/span><\/p>\n Damien<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pastor John There were so many things to digest today from last night.\u00a0 During the day, talking with Bob and Ellen, I recalled the fact that when we first came to North Carolina in May 2002 we attended our one and only “live” Old Testament class.\u00a0 And it was the night you went over […]<\/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-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}