Exhortation:  (Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet)

We glorify God each time we tell something God said to us by His Spirit and each time we do what God said to do.

Here are some examples:

Joseph Meriweather ... Member of body of Christ

I would like to share with the church how GOD is a helper to me.  I have dog name mi mi.  I had to take her to the humane society to see about getting her teeth clean. They examined her teeth and told me they needed to be cleaned and also told me how much it would start off costing. 211.00 dollars if she did not have to have any teeth pull, that would be 30 .00 dollar per teeth if needed. So I made a appointment.  I call the place a day before the appointment and ask again about the price. The lady on the phone told me 575.00 dollars to 900.00 depending what have to be done. I said that not what I was told when I brought my dog in to be examined. Then said to  her that is a lot. I said ok . They also said I needed to stop feeding her the soft dog food because it would cause a build up on her teeth, and start giving her dry food.

After talking with the lady I told GOD that is a lot of money.  So me and my wife start talking it over about the costs.  She also agreed it was a lot.  We also talk about what kind of food to give her.  My wife said the dog need dog food with vegetables in it. I said ok.

That night before going to sleep I ask God for help.  I had a dream that I walk right into the humane society getting ready to approach the counter when a man stood right in front of me and said it cost too much money here. Then he show me a dog bowl and said this what to feed your dog. It was vegetable with dry food in it.  Then I woke up.

I start thinking about what me and my wife was talking about what kind of food to feed our dog with vegetable.  That morning I cancel that appointment, and thank GOD for His WORD.

I still needed to take my dog some where to be treated. I ask GOD were could I take my dog? And a thought came to my mind about this small animal hospital that no more then 4 miles from my house. It was early that morning about 7 am. I drove up to the hospital to get the phone number off the building.  Went back and waited until it open at 8 am. I call and ask if they clean dog teeth and they said yes. The cost for the cleaning would be 108 dollars.  Also if they had to pull teeth it would be 15 dollars per teeth.  I made appointment.  After that I PRAISES MY GOD for helping me.  With the shots and one small teeth to be pull also I had to have medicine, teeth cleaning came to 495.00 dollars.

This scripture came to mind ...  Psalms 46:1 GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.   

Our dog is doing just fine.


Pam Padgett ...teacher

Many years ago when I first started going to college, God showed Himself strong on my behalf. My older sister had been at college two years when I started attending the same school.  She dated a man who was a member of a fraternity, and had become a member of the fraternity's "women's auxiliary", assisting with fraternity social functions.  She was very excited for me to join the social circles she was in, and especially wanted me to meet members of the fraternity.

The first week of school my sister invited me to go to a student bar where many of the fraternity guys gathered on Thursday nights.  I went, but found what was going on there to be so bad (lewdness, drunkenness, etc.) that I was unable to stay and I walked back to the dormitory.

A week or so later my sister asked if I'd go to an outdoor luau with one of the freshmen "pledges" at the fraternity.  The luau site was about 20 miles away near a river, and there would be a campfire.  The setting was very appealing to me, plus I was excited about having a date, and I agreed to go.

Then, a few days before the luau, my sister told me that arrangements had been made for one of the other fraternity guys to take me to the luau because my date would be spending the day at the luau site building a hut for us ... a young man I had never even met was building a hut "for us"! 

Suddenly the reality of this luau became very clear to me.  This was not going to be people sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows.  The lewdness and drunkenness I had seen at the student bar was probably mild compared to what would be going on at this luau ... and I wouldn't be able to walk home.

I told my sister that I couldn't go along with this and did not want to go, but she kept insisting that it was too late for me to back out, that it was too late for this guy to find another date. 

I turned very strongly to God, asking Him to somehow get me out of this situation.  There seemed no way out.  At one point I asked God to let me have appendicitis, preferring to be in a hospital having surgery than to go to this luau.

The morning of the luau I woke up and checked to see if I might have any pain that would indicate appendicitis, and was disappointed that I felt fine.  I kept praying for God to somehow work this out.  Time was really running out!  When I looked outside, it was raining a little, but not much. However, the rain became heavier and heavier as the day went on.

Around 2 pm I received a call from the fraternity guy who planned to take me to the luau site.  He told me how sorry he was to have to tell me this, but the luau had to be cancelled.  The luau site had been totally flooded, washing away all the huts that had been built, which would include the hut my date had built for us.    He told me how long the luau had been held at this same site (many years) and, although there had been rain at times in the past, nothing like this had ever happened before, flooding and causing the luau to be cancelled.

I rejoiced, knowing that God had delivered me.