{"id":8340,"date":"2016-11-12T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T01:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2016-11-12T01:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T01:03:50","slug":"lured-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8340\/lured-with-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Lured with Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Pastor John!<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to share this testimony because it is so good to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I often hear brothers and sisters in the Lord say, “When I heard the Truth, it just connected with something inside of me,” or something along those lines. Well, I always felt a little bit worried every time I heard that said because that wasn’t necessarily my experience.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, a brother testified to hearing the Truth and it lining up inside right away. As soon as he said this, I felt that little ping of worry hit my heart. \u00a0I immediately said to Jesus, “Lord, I didn’t feel that way. \u00a0Am I ok, Jesus? Why didn’t I feel like that?” \u00a0Jesus spoke right back to me and said, “I lured you here with love.” \u00a0That touches my heart so deeply! \u00a0I did not come seeking the Truth. \u00a0I don’t know if I even really understood that there was a Truth. \u00a0I came seeking Jesus. \u00a0My sweet Jesus who so tenderly picked me up and cared for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today I woke up remembering all that Jesus brought me from. \u00a0I spent some time this morning thanking him and God for loving me and not giving up on me. \u00a0As I was driving to my first appointment (about an hour away) the sweetest feelings fell on me. \u00a0I was already feeling so in love with Jesus, but this was so much more. \u00a0It was such a beautiful and pure feeling of love. \u00a0I could see Jesus carrying me out of a valley. He is my hero, my everything. \u00a0I felt so infused with Jesus. The Earth could have fallen to pieces and none of it would have mattered. \u00a0I said to Jesus in that moment, “Lord, do whatever you want to this body, these relationships, this world, just please don’t put me down.”\u00a0 If I could stay in that place with Jesus, feel those feelings, nothing else would matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the feelings began to fade, I felt so lonely for that place, that connection to Jesus. \u00a0I can only imagine what an eternity feeling those feelings will be like.<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel like the Lord has been letting me fall more deeply in love with him and feel those beautiful feelings because that is how he loves me. \u00a0That is a glimpse of how Jesus loves us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beth<\/span><\/p>\n

P.S. I hope we get to see Jesus A LOT in Heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Pastor John! I want to share this testimony because it is so good to me. I often hear brothers and sisters in the Lord say, “When I heard the Truth, it just connected with something inside of me,” or something along those lines. Well, I always felt a little bit worried every time I […]<\/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-8340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340"}],"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=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}