{"id":12533,"date":"2021-12-07T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12533"},"modified":"2021-12-07T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:45:00","slug":"daily-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12533\/daily-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This Daily Thought is good!\u00a0 It is good for us:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=rdt12-07<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

As I read it, I remembered a few times I have taken things to Jesus that I needed him to answer and put in my heart, and Jesus did answer!<\/span><\/p>\n

I remembered hearing a man on the radio tell of God’s love and mercy.\u00a0 He was teaching the “get saved” doctrine that many Christians believe, explaining how we are all sinners and will always be sinners.\u00a0 The man was convincing, and I felt unsettled after hearing him.\u00a0\u00a0I believe I had just received the holy Ghost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to Jesus about this, and\u00a0Jesus said to me, “If I was ok with sin, I would have left you in it!”<\/span><\/p>\n

That settled everything in my heart!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another time, early on,\u00a0I became fearful, wondering if the truth I was hearing from you was really the truth!\u00a0 I had spent my whole life believing that there were many ways to God, and not just one.\u00a0 That the truth was THE truth was pretty hard for me to take in.\u00a0 When I did search that out in the Bible, and believed it, I was terrified.\u00a0 I went to Jesus and told him how scared I was.\u00a0 I was scared of being deceived.\u00a0 Terrified of meeting Jesus and him saying he did not know me, that I hadn’t found the right way.\u00a0 My soul depended on knowing the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus said, “Look at the fruits.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth proves itself.\u00a0 Jesus does not leave you guessing!\u00a0 The truth lined up with everything I was reading and feeling in the Bible, as I sought for Jesus.\u00a0 It lined up with everything Jesus was doing in me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And one of the dearest things Jesus put in my heart, was you, my help, my pastor.\u00a0And because Jesus did it, it has saved me from wrong thoughts over and over again.\u00a0I have told you about it before, but it’s beautiful to me, so I will tell you again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many times, if I had wrong thoughts or got a little off in my spirit, a dividing spirit flooded in.\u00a0 It took me a while to realize it, but it never failed.\u00a0 That was the first thing that it went for, was to divide me from you, my pastor, and the body.\u00a0 Just self-pity thoughts and “nobody loves you” thoughts, I hate that thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One day I wrote you an email.\u00a0 Your response left me saying to myself, “He did not understand what I was saying; he got that wrong.”\u00a0 Over the course of a few days, Jesus walked me through that email.\u00a0I cannot now remember what that email was even about, but I can still feel the awe I felt as Jesus put you in my heart.\u00a0\u00a0Not only were you right about that situation, but you were also miles ahead of where I was.\u00a0 Miles from me even forming a thought that resembled where you were.\u00a0 I remember telling Jerry, and telling Jesus, how amazing that was to me.\u00a0 I really was in awe.\u00a0 Then Jesus showed me you and him standing on a high-up plain.\u00a0 You were on his right side.\u00a0 I understood it all in that moment.\u00a0 You were working for Jesus.\u00a0 Jesus had you with him, over us.\u00a0 The order, the authority, and the love were understood in that moment of Jesus, showing you standing there with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing can ever take that out because Jesus etched it into me.\u00a0 I rest in that.\u00a0 It is an anchor.\u00a0 I needed Jesus to do that for me.\u00a0 My soul needed Jesus to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beth<\/span><\/p>\n

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