{"id":534,"date":"2009-10-05T22:39:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=534"},"modified":"2009-10-05T22:39:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:39:12","slug":"freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/534\/freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"FREEDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey John,<\/span><\/p>\n

A day or two ago I listened to the CD that Brother Earl sent me [the one where you were preaching about the uselessness of ceremony], and I have been having so many thoughts about freedom since then.\u00a0 It is a word that should be and\u00a0IS so liberating, yet the human mind can’t take it in as such.\u00a0 Or I should maybe say my mind can’t take it in, for I don’t know what is in anyone else’s.\u00a0 As I have told you, I have been hurting very badly for the last few days, so I have been sitting around and been in the bed a lot, which has left me with my thoughts being right with me.\u00a0 The girls had a sleep over, so they have been out of the house.\u00a0 As I lay on the bed, I kept sensing, even though I felt so bad, “It will not forever be like this.\u00a0 I don’t know just when I’ll be delivered from this illness for it could be tomorrow or the next day, but what I do know is if I live the best I know how in the Lord, it won’t be forever.\u00a0 One day I will give up this corruptible\u00a0body, and\u00a0my faith is to believe I will get a new body that will not have to endure these afflictions.”\u00a0 It hit me that I AM FREE, and that allows me to rest because of what Jesus has done for me (and for whoever else will trust HIM).<\/span><\/p>\n

Freedom is so easy when we focus on the WILL OF GOD FOR OUR LIFE.\u00a0 I can stop fretting over folks that are not ready to be truly free (whatever their problem may be) for HE has made freedom possible.\u00a0 Freedom also relieves a person from having to observe rituals that were never intended for them to begin with.\u00a0 Really it is a burden to have to participate in ceremonies.\u00a0 I have heard some preachers instruct the people of God to offer an offering, or work some type work to show their sincerity towards God.\u00a0\u00a0 I believe that the pride of man can drive them to do these things to be recognized of others, and if that is the case, I don’t believe is acceptable to God in the first place.\u00a0 Really, Jesus only asks for a lifestyle in him through the spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I have found myself having to really focus on not finding something that needs to be done or someone that I believe needs fixing [and just enjoy my freedom].\u00a0 Doing all that has actually become funny to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have had many liberating things to prick my spirit the last couple days about freedom and Jesus being the answer not in the details etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Talk to you soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Hey John, A day or two ago I listened to the CD that Brother Earl sent me [the one where you were preaching about the uselessness of ceremony], and I have been having so many thoughts about freedom since then.\u00a0 It is a word that should be and\u00a0IS so liberating, yet the human mind can’t […]<\/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-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}