{"id":10265,"date":"2018-06-27T20:57:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10265"},"modified":"2018-06-27T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:57:58","slug":"from-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10265\/from-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name = Leika<\/span><\/p>\n

Location = Philippines\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hi Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am so grateful and thankful of Jesus He lead me to you (in your website).\u00a0 When I searching for tracts for evangelism but it change me when I read your books.\u00a0 How kind God is! I am from Philippines.\u00a0 I seek the truth after I receive Jesus Christ when I was young until now.\u00a0 I search on pastor who can explain to me everything and the bible said that the Holy Spirit will lead us into all truth.\u00a0 I am in a born again Christian church. My family is a Christian and I was raise as a Christian.\u00a0 And now by Gods grace I become a youth leader in church. God put me a desire in my heart to read His word and seek Him. And I felt that there is missing and hinder. I read your book, God had a Son before Mary did<\/a><\/i>.\u00a0 I feel I was blind but now I see.\u00a0 It really convict me this word: \u201cCome out of her, my people!\u201d\u00a0 I continue reading your books until now.\u00a0 I just started last Monday.\u00a0 I want to email to you on how God reveal His word through you and how He use you for people who blind by Christianity System.\u00a0 And now I feel freedom and thankfulness of our Lord Jesus Christ and God the father.\u00a0 I ask God on how to come out to the church and begin following Jesus.\u00a0 May you advice me pastor John.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And please pray for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yours in Christ,<\/span><\/p>\n

Leika<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi Leika.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for writing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It is a wonderful thing when Jesus begins to open a heart to the truth, as it appears he is doing now for you.\u00a0 First, as Jesus did for Paul (Acts\u00a09:15\u201316), I should warn you that if you follow Jesus, you should expect to be misunderstood and hated, even by other believers, and sometimes by those you love most.\u00a0 Few will praise you for listening to the real Jesus, least of all devout Christians.\u00a0 But our heavenly Father will reward you openly, in due time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Church religion has never been of God, and without coming out of Christianity and serving Christ at home, or wherever he may send you, the Spirit Christ has given you will in time be quenched by the rituals and authorities that are in the Church.\u00a0 If you hear and obey the Father\u2019s voice to come out to Him, some believers may recognize his work in you and do nothing about it.\u00a0 Others may choose to obey God with you, and they will be precious souls.\u00a0 Love them and worship God together wherever you can \u2013 but do not fall back under Christianity\u2019s spell and start trying to make an organization out of the work of God!\u00a0 \u201cEnvy not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWalk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you continue to follow the Spirit, Christ will make you more free than you have ever dreamed.\u00a0 But pray for courage.\u00a0 You will need courage to overcome the opposition that you will face, and you will need courage to believe the astonishing truths that Jesus will show you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Please continue to communicate with us, and let us know more about you and your journey.\u00a0 We want to be helpers to your faith.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Your servant,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Name = Leika Location = Philippines\u00a0 Hi Pastor John,\u00a0 I am so grateful and thankful of Jesus He lead me to you (in your website).\u00a0 When I searching for tracts for evangelism but it change me when I read your books.\u00a0 How kind God is! I am from Philippines.\u00a0 I seek the truth after I […]<\/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-10265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265"}],"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=10265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}