{"id":8190,"date":"2016-10-11T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2016-10-11T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T14:40:09","slug":"i-want-to-thank-jesus-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8190\/i-want-to-thank-jesus-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Thank Jesus, Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

Both of my knees are without pain today. Neither is braced and they are working as they should. I just “ran” up a flight of stairs, for a second time this morning! I would have thought that an impossibility, three weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to thank Jesus for that!\u00a0 This is my second day at work without braces on \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

Beth and I had a sweet visit from Michelle last night. At the end of the visit, I told her something, with regard to my knees, that in hindsight, I am very thankful for.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michelle had asked me about them, as to whether they were still feeling better. I told her, “yes”, they are still feeling good “today”.\u00a0 And without giving it any thought, I went on to tell her that I don’t know if Jesus has healed my knees. <\/span><\/p>\n

He has not told me that, but I am thankful for them feeling better today.\u00a0 And if He hasn’t healed them, then I still do need a healing…..and that’s OK!\u00a0 I don’t have to make anything up for Him. \u00a0He hasn’t done it.\u00a0 But He can do it!\u00a0 Because He is real!<\/span><\/p>\n

I love that, pastor John.\u00a0 I love “knowing” that God is real!\u00a0 It keeps me from trying to defend Him if His answer about my knees, or about anything…is, “no”.\u00a0 The fact that I have experienced a, “yes” in the past from God, keeps me grounded if the answer is, “no”.\u00a0And, “no” is what it will undoubtedly be, sometimes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Having God’s Spirit inside, and walking in the “Truth”, this way of holiness has given me so many real experiences with Jesus; those experiences let me know that He is real, and that His touch is real, and that the absence of His touch is just is real!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus has moved in my life many times, and if He doesn’t do something for me that I ask Him to, I don’t have to say that He did do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because, so many times, He does do it!\u00a0 There is a real difference.\u00a0 And because experience has taught me that, I don’t have to claim to have something from Him that I don’t really have.\u00a0 Because I know that it is possible to really receive it from Him!Experience with God keeps God’s children from moving into a place where we try and explain away God’s blessings, or the absence of them.\u00a0 One healing would turn a man from ever saying, “healings aren’t for today” or “God doesn’t heal anymore”.<\/span><\/p>\n

One experience can make a man spend the rest of his life waiting on God.\u00a0 And that is a good thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because I have heard God speak plainly to my own heart, and daily out of my own mouth, through the holy Ghost that He has given me, I don’t have to defend Him if He is silent.\u00a0 Because God has moved unmovable obstacles in my life, I do not have to make excuses for Him when my way is blocked.\u00a0 Because He is Lord of “all things” and all of my life, I do not have to blame the Devil when things go wrong….knowing that my Father remains in charge of everything, including my hardships.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experience with God keeps me from needing to negotiate the doctrine that I have been taught, that I know is from God.\u00a0 Experience with God keeps me from needing to reinvent my belief system about Him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, what I experience from God replaces what I believe about Him, altogether.\u00a0 Which is better!\u00a0 \u00a0I have learned to love, appreciate and prefer what I have experienced, over what I believe \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Those experiences from God have saved me from being a liar about Him, providing me with real godly testimonies in place of doctrines of my own imagination and self-will.That I would have passed on as fact in the absence of fear and experience with God.God has blessed my life!<\/span><\/p>\n

He has filled my life with Truth and Power and Love and Experience with Him, in the Spirit, that have \u00a0saved me from having to prop up a doctrine that attempts to explain a life in God that has no power, that has no experience.\u00a0 I do not know that life.\u00a0 I have never experienced that kind of religion.\u00a0The only religion that I have ever known centers around constant experience with the keeping power of God.\u00a0 Take that away, and we would have no religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thank God for the many experiences that I have had with Him.\u00a0 Beginning the very first day when I was converted. When I was born again of His Spirit, it came in speaking!\u00a0 He set the precedent then of what life in Him was. Experience!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pastor John, Both of my knees are without pain today. Neither is braced and they are working as they should. I just “ran” up a flight of stairs, for a second time this morning! I would have thought that an impossibility, three weeks ago. I want to thank Jesus for that!\u00a0 This is my second […]<\/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-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190"}],"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=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}