I have been editing the web letters folders on the pastorjohnshouse.com website and there have been some emails that really struck me and I wanted to share them so from time to time I will post them on here.
This one from Julie A. a few years ago was so good! I read this one and re-read this one. I think it goes along with my previous blog and about how we spend our time. It's so easy to get carried away by different things and to get distracted, but if we can remember this it will help get us focused back on where we are supposed to be. This is just a simple, good, clean thought and I love it! 
September 25, 2002
Hey Pastor John.
I had to jump out of bed real quick and write down some thoughts that God gave to me while praying in bed tonight. I was thinking about the Thought For Today from yesterday (9-23), about depression and how that it is really "unbelief". I was praying that God let me keep my mind on him all of the time, everyday, all day long. While praying that, God gave me this: "Occupy your mind with God, and that doesn't leave any room for spirits to occupy your mind with junk!"
Then Aunt Donna's song came to mind. I believe you mentioned a part of the song in that email. "I will keep you in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee". That is so encouraging! To keep your mind full of God, and there is no room for anything else to come in. If you are occupied with something in particular, you don't let other things or people get in the way. You are concentrating on that one thing. Praise God!! Let my mind be occupied with God and Godly things all of the time. God really has made my life beautiful and I want to keep it that way.
I don't want other junk( as S----- sometimes calls it), to get in the way of God and what he is doing in my life. I want perfect peace in my life, so I can concentrate on praising God and making him happy with me!
Thank God for allowing us to have peace and for knowing how to obtain it. Praise God!
I am so thankful.
Julie A.
Amen, Julie. This is very good! jdc
