{"id":4644,"date":"2014-07-13T21:23:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2014-07-13T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T21:23:50","slug":"a-loners-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4644\/a-loners-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Loner&#8217;s Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>A loner&#8217;s spiritual experiences are rarely to be trusted, but when they are trustworthy, they are the most trustworthy of all.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> When Israel had, in the main, become apostate, God sent them a man who had been separated from human company for years, John the Baptist, and anyone in Israel who refused John was damned by God. \u00a0John&#8217;s message and baptism was not optional for the Jews.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Usually, when someone has a spiritual experience apart from the community of faith, it is an experience of their own imagination, or even a demonic encounter. But at those very rare times when someone has a spiritual experience with Christ who is detached from the ordinary fellowship of the body of Christ, it is always a matter of life or death that we hear what that person has to say.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Stay humble, and be prepared always to hear from God when He speaks to the body of Christ by someone who is not a part of the daily fellowship that we know. When God sees a body growing too comfortable in a way that does not bear the best fruit, He may send a stranger in to re-arrange things and make us more perfect in His sight.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loner&#8217;s spiritual experiences are rarely to be trusted, but when they are trustworthy, they are the most trustworthy of all. When Israel had, in the main, become apostate, God sent them a man who had been separated from human company for years, John the Baptist, and anyone in Israel who refused John was damned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644"}],"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=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}