Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Deut. 1:8 ... God said, Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
In the OT, this was a specific land on this present earth.
It is a type of example for us today for there is a "land" we in the NT church are to possess and it is a land of "rest" ... keeping our faith in God ... keeping free from fear ... keeping free in the midst of trouble. And it is up to us to posses that land just as they had to go in and fight and possess that land in the OT.
Way of NT in possessing rest on this earth.
Phil. 4 ... Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Haven't we sometimes forgotten to turn to God with the problem, with the concern? When we do turn to God and pray, believing in God, don't we often feel a sensation of a burden lifted from us?
We free ourselves and enter into HIS rest by faith in God and through prayer by faith in God.
We go directly to God in prayer through Jesus who bought us with HIS blood.
We know we belong to God by HIS Spirit which HE gave us.
Do you have any concern at this point in time about anything? Do you have any fear? Do you have anything you dread? If so, you have not settled the matter with God.
We go to God talking to HIM about the problem. We ask God if there is anything HE wants us to do concerning the issue. If we are shown anything, we do it. If not, we rest in HIM.
But we must take the problem to God, even when it seems to be such a small thing. "Be careful for nothing."
We must talk to God about every thing that concerns us.
There is a rest appointed to the people of God. We enter into that rest through prayer and through believing God.
Heb. 3 ... For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 15While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Heb. 4 ... Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3For we which have believed do enter into rest,