Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
We will be reading the Bible and sometimes a verse of scripture just stands out and we try to read past that verse and keep being pulled back to that verse.
When this happens, stop trying to go ahead and focus on that verse. There is a special message from God to you in that verse.
This is called "meditating" in the Word from God. As you do this, you eat the flesh of Jesus and you drink the blood of Jesus. Jesus said: Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Jn. 53
This is where the power is. The power is in that specific verse that stands out to you. You may need to spend several days, weeks, or even months on that verse. I have often spent several months looking daily at the same verse.
At this point in time, and for the past few weeks, I have been focused on the following:
Joshua 1 ...
There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 6Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. 7Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. 8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 9Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
First, I noticed 3 times God said the same thing: "Be strong and of good courage ..."
I took a dictionary and looked up the words "strong" and "courage".
Strong means:
- exerting great force
- showing determination, self-control
- intense and firmly held
- lasting despite difficulties
- very intense
- forceful
Courage means:
- ability to do something that frightens one
- strength in the face of pain or grief
- acting on one's beliefs despite danger or disapproval
From dictionary: Courage is what makes someone capable of facing extreme danger and difficulty without retreating ... Ability to endure in time of adversity ... Standing up when it really counts ... firmness or strength of mind ... determination ... stubborn persistence and unwillingness to acknowledge defeat ... conviction and eagerness ... unflappable daring with which someone acts ... not deterred by danger or pain ...
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Twice in Joshua 1, God speak of the correlation of prosperity and acting upon that which God has shown you.
Joshua 1:7-8 ... Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. 8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
I have found that I prosper without trying to prosper. All I've been trying to do for the past 30+ years is what God tells me to do.
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And God says ... Have not I commanded thee? Joshua 1:9 ... Has God commanded you? Are you really hearing from God to do that? If it is really God, it will happen but you must be very courageous.
In 1980, God spoke to me in the night while I slept ... 3 words ... "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS" ...
"What did it mean?" I asked God. (Turned out KWJS was radio station.) "Are you telling me to go on radio? I wouldn't know how to do that." (Gentle impression: Call radio station manager) I called that morning. Manager said make audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and if I fit with their broadcasting they would offer me a contract. I made an audition tape immediately. (I just sat down and spoke that which God brought to my mind by HIS Spirit and mailed tape that day to radio station.) Within a week I was on radio five days a week for 30 minutes per day.
Was that God WHO commanded me? I was certainly persuaded it was.
Sometimes a scripture will strongly stand out to you ... Phil. 2 stood out to me this way about 2 years ago ...
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7But made himself of no reputation,
I began to meditate on this and stayed on it for about 7 months trying to conform my actions to this scripture.
People do all sorts of things to exalt themselves above other people. The apostle told us Jesus didn't do that and for us to have the "same mind" Jesus had, making ourselves of "no reputation" ...
I stopped playing bridge where the entire goal is to beat everyone else in the room. Even when I played bridge I often thought, "Would Jesus or Paul be doing this." My answer was, "Of course not." They wouldn't be trying to beat other people and exalt themselves. I stopped forever.
It was meditating in this scripture that gave me the direction I took and gave me the power to stop.
For the next 7 months I just sat alone at my house in Lubbock. I knew there was no place for me to go and nothing for me to do. At the end of 7 months, God gave me a dream to show me to go on Internet and do exhortations. Within 3 days of the dream, we were publishing on Internet. (Started last week in March, 2012)
At this point in time, I don't think I'm doing anything at all to exalt myself. Often when I write these exhortations people hate and despise me because of that which I write. That is the way the real word of God is. It is a cross. It often brings shame to the person who speaks it or writes it. (For example: read Evil from Pastors)
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One of the first things God taught me back in 1975 was meditating on the Word HE gave me so I would have strength and courage to do what HE wanted me to do ... and also that in doing that, I would prosper everywhere I went ... and this happened! (prosper means to have good success)
This form of meditation is eating the flesh of Jesus and drinking the blood of Jesus.
Jesus said: Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
John 6:53
Please read:
- What is the Lord's supper?
- How do you eat Jesus?