{"id":7695,"date":"2016-07-07T21:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T21:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2016-07-07T21:03:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T21:03:53","slug":"sincerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7695\/sincerity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sincerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Good Morning Pastor John!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am sitting here in the hotel in Shelby, NC. I feel like Jesus has been preaching to my heart with a soft gentle whisper for two days now. \u00a0When I first began seeking my Jesus (I love that. I love remembering when I would ask God to show me who He is, what He likes and dislikes). \u00a0I heard you say, &#8220;God loves a sincere heart.&#8221; \u00a0I asked Jesus to please create my new heart to be a sincere heart. I thought that I understood that. I think I am seeing that means so much more than I thought it did. \u00a0Maybe it is just going in a little deeper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was watching a\u00a0TV show about Robin Williams. \u00a0Mr. Williams&#8217; life was really heartbreaking. \u00a0As I watched the show, \u00a0I could see the sadness and emptiness in his eyes. He spent his whole life masking how broken he was. He covered this up with drugs, alcohol, and comedy. He also gave a lot to charity. I kept thinking, &#8220;O Jesus, if only he would have broken down and cried out to you! If only he would have been sincere about his hurt.&#8221; During this show, Jesus was whispering, &#8220;The whole world is masking their emptiness. There is no sincerity in their hearts. It is normal in the world to hide your heart.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Oh, Pastor John, I am so thankful for the freedom to feel. What a precious gift from Jesus! \u00a0Sometimes I tell Jesus, &#8220;Please let me get through this testimony without tears.&#8221; \u00a0I am not asking Jesus for that anymore. I am going to thank Jesus for my tears. I pray Jesus gives me a sincere heart, a heart after His.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am so thankful for being pulled out of that hard world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Pastor John! I am sitting here in the hotel in Shelby, NC. I feel like Jesus has been preaching to my heart with a soft gentle whisper for two days now. \u00a0When I first began seeking my Jesus (I love that. I love remembering when I would ask God to show me who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695"}],"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=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}