{"id":6360,"date":"2015-12-17T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2015-12-17T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T21:23:11","slug":"the-gift-of-a-good-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6360\/the-gift-of-a-good-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of a Good Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Dear Bro. John:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Tonight\u00a0was more than fulfilling to heart and soul!\u00a0 I love that moment when you just feel the pull towards the feelings of God and it overwhelms your heart.\u00a0 Whatever your thoughts before that happens just fade away and God comes in and takes over.\u00a0 I love that!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">As you were preaching from Psalms that is exactly what happened to me.\u00a0 The feelings of God came and pushed out everything else.\u00a0 Then, as your words were dropping like honey into my heart, the Lord spoke,\u00a0<em>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t give you a good husband; I gave you a good pastor&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>His words confirmed that he had given me exactly what I needed for my salvation.\u00a0 Whatever we feel is lacking in our lives, Jesus has replaced those things with far better than we could ever imagine for ourselves.\u00a0 Jesus saw all these years that my need was not in a good husband.\u00a0 I needed what he spoke of in Jeremiah\u00a03:15:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>&#8220;And I will give you pastors according to mine heart,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><u>which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding<\/u>.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The gift of a good pastor is no small thing.\u00a0 We would perish without the knowledge and understanding from a pastor with a heart like God.\u00a0 What Jesus said makes me have more compassion for God&#8217;s people who are not being fed the abundant riches we enjoy because they have no good shepherd to feed them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">So encouraging and uplifting\u00a0tonight!\u00a0 Thank you, Bro. John,\u00a0for your labor of love in Jesus.\u00a0 And thank you, Jesus, for the gift of a good pastor!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Sandy<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a style=\"color:#000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avast.com\/antivirus\">\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Bro. John: Tonight\u00a0was more than fulfilling to heart and soul!\u00a0 I love that moment when you just feel the pull towards the feelings of God and it overwhelms your heart.\u00a0 Whatever your thoughts before that happens just fade away and God comes in and takes over.\u00a0 I love that! As you were preaching from [&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-6360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360"}],"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=6360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}