{"id":6349,"date":"2015-12-16T21:06:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T21:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2015-12-16T21:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T21:06:25","slug":"a-good-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6349\/a-good-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have really been thinking about all the good and wonderful things the Lord has been showing us and letting us feel in his spirit. It is amazing how clear and peaceful it all feels inside my soul, the peace it has brought, the love for his ways and the thoughts we have never had before. I know that it is all because of how much we have loved what he has shown you about the Father and the Son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I love the liberty that comes with knowing the \u200btruth. It has created whole new beings out of us, not afraid to be who he has really made us. I was thinking this morning about how in religions of this world\u200b,\u200b you are put in a box, trapped in those organizations\u200b&#8217;\u200b belie\u200bfs and rules and rites. And without the Father and the Son\u200b&#8217;\u200bs help\u200b,\u200b that is the best that men can do in this world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I love the freedom in his spirit to live life to the fullest\u200b. We are free to move in any direction the spirit is taking us. No rules\u200b. \u200b No rites\u200b,\u00a0 And we can \u200bb\u200bbelieve everything his spirit is teaching us. We can change when we learn more about his ways\u200b,\u200b and not hold on\u200b \u200bto something that will hinder us along this walk, in this life with them. We owe no man anything but to walk uprightly in everything he is showing us at this time, and if something changes\u200b,\u200b we are free to move in those changes and not feel obligated to stay stuck by other men or tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">There are no limits in his spire\u200bt! We can be as free as we can stand\u200b to be\u200b, and I hope we can stand a lot and take all he has for us in our lives.\u200b \u200b It just feels so good!! \u200b \u200bAnd I want to be found walking in all that he has given to us and not taking it lightly\u200b.\u00a0 There is a burden to carry\u200b,\u200b but it is li\u200bght\u200b compared to the end of the matter. \u200b \u200bI thank you so much for feeding us what he gives you; we have a good shepherd to watch over us. Now we want to be good sheep and eat it all up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Stuart\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John, I have really been thinking about all the good and wonderful things the Lord has been showing us and letting us feel in his spirit. It is amazing how clear and peaceful it all feels inside my soul, the peace it has brought, the love for his ways and the thoughts we have [&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-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349"}],"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=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}