{"id":7394,"date":"2016-05-11T20:46:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2016-05-11T20:46:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:46:06","slug":"unremembered-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7394\/unremembered-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Unremembered Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">There is something about this message that really touches me. My first thought after I read it was how sweet and tender Jesus is towards his people. \u00a0To know that Jesus influences us even while we sleep is special. How can one not love the life Jesus has created for us is beyond me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Thanks for sending this out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Tom<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Unremembered Counsel<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">My reins also instruct me in the night seasons.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Psalm 16:7<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Some instructions the\u00a0LORD\u00a0gives us come to us while we are asleep, in the form of dreams.\u00a0 We may or may not remember such a dream; that doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 What matters is the residual effect of the dream on our spirit.\u00a0 God uses dreams to adjust our attitude and give us direction even if we do not remember the dream when we wake up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">We bless the\u00a0LORD\u00a0for giving counsel, even if \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">our minds are unfruitful<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">\u201d; that is, even if we don\u2019t remember the counsel He has given.\u00a0 As long as our hearts are influenced by it, we are blessed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"opacity:.3;background-image:url('https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/ellipsis.png');background-repeat:no-repeat;height:8px;width:20px;\" src=\"\/Users\/Tom\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image001.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, There is something about this message that really touches me. My first thought after I read it was how sweet and tender Jesus is towards his people. \u00a0To know that Jesus influences us even while we sleep is special. How can one not love the life Jesus has created for us is beyond me.\u00a0 [&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-7394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394"}],"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=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}