{"id":15982,"date":"2025-12-03T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15982"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:12:02","slug":"thoughts-from-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15982\/thoughts-from-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As I sat at the fire this morning, I was overwhelmed by a couple thoughts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(1) in my 30s when I got a call from God to go to Him to be healed of a broken heart, the only place I knew to go to was a cult \u2014Catholicism. I went there to learn what to do, say, sing, when to stand, sit, hold hands. I went there because I thought God was in the rituals. I thought to reach Him I needed to become a member of that cult. I had no idea of the freedom that the holy Ghost and Truth gives you to love the Father and His son the way they want to be loved not the way man wants us to be controlled. If there is a cult, it\u2019s Christianity!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(2)\u00a0humility is so important. After I went to the Catholic church and became a member of that cult, I soon realized that it was a personality cult. The substance of Catholicism meant nothing, and all I had, and all I followed, were priests from diocese to diocese. But Jesus gave me the humility to see my error. I didn\u2019t have the wisdom or knowledge to know where to go, but I stopped going to that cult. Humility is a requirement to real wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If Jesus hadn\u2019t made me a humble person with a humble heart, I would\u2019ve never let go of all of the things that I have been taught for 55 years about who I was, what I knew, and what was true. To let the scales fall off your eyes, be willing to see and act on what you see, and let go of all that you knew can only be Jesus and the holy Ghost! Oh thank you Jesus!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know that\u2019s what it takes, a humble heart, to come to him and to stay with him. I pray for everyone who has wandered off the right path, that Jesus will humble their heart, to see the error of their thinking, and to feel the freedom that comes in living in the spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Allison<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, As I sat at the fire this morning, I was overwhelmed by a couple thoughts: (1) in my 30s when I got a call from God to go to Him to be healed of a broken heart, the only place I knew to go to was a cult \u2014Catholicism. I went there to learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982"}],"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=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15983,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions\/15983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}