{"id":7120,"date":"2016-03-13T22:56:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T22:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2016-03-13T22:56:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T22:56:31","slug":"gods-life-vs-plant-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7120\/gods-life-vs-plant-life\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Life vs. Plant Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bro. John:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I love it when the Lord uses things of nature that he has created to teach us!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was out on my patio this morning tidying up for the spring and summer.\u00a0 I have some plants that are known as &#8220;Hen and Chicks&#8221; that are very hardy.\u00a0 You can leave them out all winter and they still come back in the spring and summer!\u00a0 I noticed they were starting to grow again so I &#8220;fluffed up&#8221; the soil a little to refresh it.\u00a0 As I was doing that, the Lord taught me about God&#8217;s Life vs. Plant Life.\u00a0 Plant life lies dormant during the winter.\u00a0 It &#8220;sleeps&#8221; or is &#8220;inactive&#8221; as you would have it.\u00a0 With God&#8217;s Life, we do not ever have to lie dormant (sleep or be inactive) unless we yield to the flesh instead of the Spirit!\u00a0 I just thought that was such a good lesson!\u00a0 If we are dormant, it is because we let the flesh make us inactive or sluggish.\u00a0 God&#8217;s Life is alive all the time!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God&#8217;s lessons are all around us!\u00a0 It was good to feel His Life in me this morning teaching me and making me thankful for God&#8217;s Life!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>Sandy<\/em>\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bro. John: I love it when the Lord uses things of nature that he has created to teach us! I was out on my patio this morning tidying up for the spring and summer.\u00a0 I have some plants that are known as &#8220;Hen and Chicks&#8221; that are very hardy.\u00a0 You can leave them out all [&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-7120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120"}],"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=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}