{"id":8905,"date":"2017-03-18T00:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2017-03-18T00:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:35:57","slug":"receiving-the-holy-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8905\/receiving-the-holy-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Receiving the Holy Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi P<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">astor John.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I so desire to be filled with holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in tongues but, I&#8217;m having a very hard time.\u00a0I have been waiting for many years but\u00a0I seem to not get it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Can you help me?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Emily M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Avon, MA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi\u00a0Emily.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>God bless you!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>The only requirements that I know of for anyone to receive the Spirit is to believe the gospel of Jesus and repent.\u00a0 That sounds simple, but our fleshly nature can make it seem so hard and complicated. \u00a0 It can tell us we have done all that we can do to please God when we are, in truth, holding on to something Jesus wants us to let go of.\u00a0 When you pray, ask Jesus to help you see what he sees, so that you can do whatever he requires of you, without fear and without doubting.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>He IS faithful, Emily, and everyone who asks really does receive.\u00a0 So get ready!\u00a0 And please do let us know when you receive the holy Ghost.\u00a0 We want to rejoice with you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Do you have a body of believers nearby that can help you pray? \u00a0If not, that&#8217;s OK.\u00a0 A number of the best\u00a0saints I ever knew received the Spirit while they were alone. \u00a0I cannot recommend that you go to any church that would tell you that you are born again before you receive the Spirit&#8217;s baptism.\u00a0 But a home fellowship where there is faith and love would be great,\u00a0off you can find one.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John.\u00a0 I so desire to be filled with holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in tongues but, I&#8217;m having a very hard time.\u00a0I have been waiting for many years but\u00a0I seem to not get it. Can you help me?\u00a0 Emily M. Avon, MA ========== Hi\u00a0Emily. God bless you! The only requirements that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905"}],"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=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}