{"id":8357,"date":"2016-11-14T21:24:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T21:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2016-11-14T21:24:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T21:24:40","slug":"what-is-spiritual-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8357\/what-is-spiritual-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Spiritual Weakness&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Good morning!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was reading the tract, <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a style=\"color:#0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_tracts.html?tname=tract-042-myfriend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Is My Friend<\/a><\/span>, and I have a question. It says, \u201cGod freely offers his children faith for healing and deliverance; yet, because of spiritual weaknesses, some have not yet learned to trust him.\u201d What actually are spiritual weaknesses? Is it not staying full of the holy Ghost? Or letting other things come in, the cares of this life, etc. Just want to see if I&#8217;m getting it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Donna C<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Donna.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, spiritual weakness is, as you said, the result of not staying full of the Spirit. Or, we could say instead that spiritual weakness comes from living \u201caccording to the flesh\u201d, as Paul would say it. Jesus, you will remember, said of his disciples, \u201cthe spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak\u201d (Mt. 26:41). And Paul said that the law of Moses \u201cwas weak through the flesh\u201d (Rom. 8:3). So, in the Bible, the ways of the flesh are associated with spiritual weakness, while spiritual strength comes from the Spirit of God.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! I was reading the tract, This Is My Friend, and I have a question. It says, \u201cGod freely offers his children faith for healing and deliverance; yet, because of spiritual weaknesses, some have not yet learned to trust him.\u201d What actually are spiritual weaknesses? Is it not staying full of the holy Ghost? [&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-8357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357"}],"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=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}