Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Recently on Internet, Pam shared the following scripture:
Exodus 16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. 16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents. 17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. 18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. .... 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
It was God who led them to go out from Egypt into this wilderness ... It is so comforting to read this and be reassured that when God leads us, God also provides for that which we will need out there in the place God has told us to go.
But if we go out when we are not led by God it is another matter.
This week I received a very disturbing email from a pastor ... He told of the Muslims burning down their church building. His church leaders determined to rebuild their building by a specific date in August. Pastor admitted he was a little troubled because they do not have "good funds" to rebuild and it will cost $300,000 to rebuild. He asked me for prayer and money. I did not pray for them to rebuild nor did I send money. Instead I sent him what I believed to be from Spirit of God which was a message warning him that they are going the wrong way in this plan to rebuild. I could see their strife was against the Muslims and they were out to show the Muslims they would not win out.
This building that was burned was not the church. It was just a building. The church are those individuals who have the Spirit of God.
It is unwise to try to do something when it will cost more money than you have.
When God is leading us, that is just not what happens. When God tells us to do something the way, the money, the plan, everything is there without having to beg other people for money. And if you think God is telling you to do something and you do not have the money to do it, then you'd better try that spirit that represents itself to you as "God" ... for this is just not the way God works.
God put us on the Internet a year ago ... He did it by giving me a dream which caused me to start the "blog". The blog itself costs nothing. But to cause us to be more visible on the blog is another matter. I knew immediately to advertise so we would be more visible. At one point, we had cut back to $5 day in advertising. I prayed about this ... should we stop ads? ... should we do more ads? What should we do? After prayer, everything fell into place to increase the amount of ads we were doing. When we increased ads, daily page views changed from about 40 page views a day to over 300 per day. The increased visibility on Internet allows more people to have the opportunity to find us. As I was increasing the ads, without asking for money, money arrived which gave me a nice cushion for the ad increase for now we are spending between $620-$720 per month for ads. And it is not a burden to do this because God has provided increase in money. I did not ask humans for money. But it came to us at exactly the right time. Amazing.
If I did not have the money, then I wouldn't increase the expense on ads.
It is crazy to attempt to build a church building when you do not have the money to do this. It is not God leading you to do this. It is another spirit.
What they do is think they are building the building "by faith". But this is not faith in God when they have to beg for money to pay for the work. Even the pastor in this story admitted he was concerned.
I told him to read Booklet # 1: Following God by HIS Spirit
But I clearly told him they were going wrong way to try to build this building and going the wrong way when they set a specific date by which this building must be finished. This is not God leading them.
And I shared the following scripture: James 3 ... Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (I know they are striving against the Muslims in this)
17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
I never heard from this pastor after I responded with this warning. But I know their plan for this building will not work. And I see it being against the way of God.