{"id":671,"date":"2009-12-23T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=671"},"modified":"2009-12-23T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:23:20","slug":"a-godly-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/671\/a-godly-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"A Godly Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Pastor John,
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\nI remember when I began to understand more of the truth and how I had started looking at christians the wrong way.\u00a0 My attitude was all wrong.\u00a0 One night I was so upset about an individual who thought they were right about a particular doctrine, but the Lord had not open their eyes to the truth yet.\u00a0 That night as I was thinking on this situation before falling asleep, the Lord gave me a dream.
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\nIn the dream I was at school and new kids were coming in the class one at a time.\u00a0 Then entered this one kid who started preaching while holding his Bible over his head.\u00a0 He started preaching that you had to “get saved”.\u00a0 I think he was quoting scriptures and saying you need to repeat [a prayer or scripture] after him.
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\nI thought to myself if, he comes over here I will give him some truth (this was a wrong thought motivated by a wrong attitude).\u00a0 As he got closer to me, I began to get ready to let him have it with both barrels.\u00a0 He started to preach at me, when I stopped him and I began correcting him.\u00a0 As this started to take place in my dream, I was taken up by the Lord in spirit to sit beside him and watch this scene.\u00a0 There, I could feel what the Lord was feeling.\u00a0 Every word that I was saying to this kid was like my open hand slapping him in the face.\u00a0 Each time I did this, the kid got physically smaller.\u00a0 Then I began to feel the anger of the Lord toward me for that attitude.\u00a0 At that moment, I started to tremble at His correction for me.
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\nAs I begin to awake from the dream, I could feel myself getting lower and asking God, “How do you know when to speak the truth to someone?”\u00a0 At that very moment of my awaking, my alarm clock came on with the radio blasting with these words from a Beatle’s song: “All you need is LOVE”.\u00a0 From that moment on, I’ve tried to remember to speak to those I meet with a godly attitude.\u00a0 If they say anything about the Lord, I try to get them to tell me about\u00a0my experience with Him.\u00a0 That is safe ground to start with.
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\nShortly after my correction, you started instructing us about good manners in the Lord and how important it is to show respect to our elders.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thank God for you and for all the elders that are in my life.\u00a0 They are treasures to the Body.
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\nSincerely,
\nBrother Tim <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Pastor John, \u00a0 I remember when I began to understand more of the truth and how I had started looking at christians the wrong way.\u00a0 My attitude was all wrong.\u00a0 One night I was so upset about an individual who thought they were right about a particular doctrine, but the Lord had not open […]<\/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-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}