{"id":16054,"date":"2026-02-10T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:59:01","slug":"looking-at-it-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16054\/looking-at-it-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Looking at it all wrong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I had the best morning with Jesus, and I wanted to share it. I was fixing my coffee and thinking about a recent situation at work, and I really felt like I could have handled it better. As I poured my coffee, I started beating myself up a bit, and that\u2019s when I felt Jesus correct me. I felt Him show me that I was looking at the whole thing the wrong way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I heard the Spirit pose a question: &#8220;If you were in school and you failed a test, what would you do?&#8221;\u00a0 I answered, &#8220;I\u2019d try to do better on the next test.&#8221;\u00a0 You don\u2019t dwell on your last test score; you just keep going and aim for a better one.\u00a0 That completely shifted and changed my mindset and my attitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As I walked out the door, I told Jesus, &#8220;That is such a better way to look at it.\u00a0 I like Your way so much better.&#8221;\u00a0 It was exciting to see it from His perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then I got in the car, and Brother Gary\u2019s song \u201cI&#8217;m Exciting\u201d came on.\u00a0 That felt so good.\u00a0 As I listened to the words, I thought about God sending down fire and burning up the wood when Elijah waited for Him to show up (1 Kings 18).\u00a0 I was overwhelmed thinking about that, overwhelmed with excitement about how exciting God really is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When we face a trial, let\u2019s pile up the wood and wait for God to show up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I sent this to Rebekah today because I kept thinking about Faith and the healing we\u2019re waiting on.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what God is going to do, but I\u2019m going to carry my wood to the altar and wait for Him to show up.\u00a0 And it\u2019s even better picturing all of us carrying the wood up together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I love when Jesus says I am looking at something all wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beth<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, I had the best morning with Jesus, and I wanted to share it. I was fixing my coffee and thinking about a recent situation at work, and I really felt like I could have handled it better. As I poured my coffee, I started beating myself up a bit, and that\u2019s when [&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-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054"}],"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=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16055,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions\/16055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}