{"id":5922,"date":"2015-06-12T20:58:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T20:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2015-06-12T20:58:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T20:58:24","slug":"slowing-down-to-serve-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5922\/slowing-down-to-serve-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Slowing Down to Serve God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I&#8217;ve read that going to a holiness meeting is not serving God.\u200b \u200b Preacher Clark said it\u200b;\u200b you said it\u200b;\u200b and many others, I imagine; the meeting of the saints is not serving God, it is a payday for serving Him all of the rest of the time.\u200b\u00a0 \u200bBut then I thought, &#8220;How do you serve God?&#8221;\u00a0 It is a simple question that the faithful and obedient in the Lord may never have to consider, but it felt good for me to ask it.\u200b \u200b I \u200bk\u200bnew it wasn&#8217;t a meeting of the saints.\u200b \u200b And it is not passing out trac\u200bt\u200bs, necessarily\u200b \u200b&#8230;. and I put them out for years.\u00a0 Nor is it going out and telling folk about Jesus, necessarily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I\u00a0 went through a list of acceptable things\u200b,\u200b and realized it was none of them, specifically\u200b, but that serving God is the act of yielding. \u200bYielding to God, yielding our members unto the Lord\u200b, yielding to the Spirit, yielding to the Power.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t know God&#8217;s thoughts or desires every moment\u200b,\u200b like a list of chores to act them out and call it service to the Lord, but we can \u2013\u200b \u200band perhaps only can\u200b \u2013 yield to His power at this moment. \u200b \u200bAnd we will have served Him for every moment that we were yielding.\u200b \u200b It made me immediately think that no wonder it is true that\u00a0 &#8220;He who hastens with his feet, sins\u200b.\u200b&#8221;\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In the light of these thoughts\u200b,\u200b it seems impossible to me that we would be or could be yielding to God, while \u200b&#8221;hastening\u200b&#8221;, or being in a hurry\u200b.\u00a0 And then I thought about slowing down. \u200b \u200bWe can&#8217;t serve God acceptably, which is to yield ourselves to Him, if we don&#8217;t slow down, slow\u00a0 enough to feel the next living move, as it is happening. \u200b \u200bAnd if we aren&#8217;t yielding\u200b,\u200b I&#8217;m thinking that we aren&#8217;t serving the Living God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u200bJerry D<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I&#8217;ve read that going to a holiness meeting is not serving God.\u200b \u200b Preacher Clark said it\u200b;\u200b you said it\u200b;\u200b and many others, I imagine; the meeting of the saints is not serving God, it is a payday for serving Him all of the rest of the time.\u200b\u00a0 \u200bBut then I thought, &#8220;How [&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-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922"}],"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=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}