{"id":999,"date":"2010-06-25T20:45:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T20:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2010-06-25T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T20:45:36","slug":"blog-on-forced-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/999\/blog-on-forced-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog On Forced Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/forced-conversion-and-lord-said-unto.html<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Hey,<\/p>\n

The BLOG on “Forced Conversion: was is very good.\u00a0 I thought when I read it, after reading your blog on “Unbelieving Disciples”, that if someone is following the truth, as the unbelieving disciples followed Jesus, only for the benefits of it, then their sacrifices of praise to God are not acceptable.<\/p>\n

I remember when going through the Old Testament class that the first thing the people of Israel brought to Moses when they were starting to build the tabernacle was a willing offering.\u00a0 Their offering, God said, would not be acceptable if it was not given willingly AND if it was not what God wanted for the tabernacle.\u00a0 He wanted the people to be willing.\u00a0 He was not forcing Himself on them.<\/p>\n

I looked back at those scriptures on “willing” to see what was asked of the people, and it was a willing heart and a willing mind.\u00a0 That’s pretty simple, and filled with much love.\u00a0 Anything that would force you into worship of Jesus is not of God.\u00a0 What a great measuring stick!<\/p>\n

It will be so sweet when we really realize that God is not a big one of us!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude0e\u00a0 He does not think like we think about things, especially His kingdom.\u00a0 I always remember Isaiah when the Lord spoke to Him:<\/p>\n

[8] For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
\n[9] For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.<\/p>\n

It’s a good prayer to pray: “Lord, let my ways be your ways and your thoughts be my thoughts.”\u00a0 When you pray that prayer, He will show you!\u00a0 Just pray that you believe it when He does show you!<\/p>\n

Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/forced-conversion-and-lord-said-unto.html Hey, The BLOG on “Forced Conversion: was is very good.\u00a0 I thought when I read it, after reading your blog on “Unbelieving Disciples”, that if someone is following the truth, as the unbelieving disciples followed Jesus, only for the benefits of it, then their sacrifices of praise to God are not acceptable. I remember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}