Colossians 3:2-4 ... Set your affection on things above, not on things
on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
appear with him in glory.
Exhortation: Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
In 1975, I owned a business in Dallas, TX. I was born again that same year. From the moment I was born again, all I cared about was the Bible. I had 3 women who worked for me and they were very competent with the business. They sold the merchandise. I did mostly buying and appraisals. And I stayed home and read the Bible.
For the next 3 or 4 years, I remained deeply involved in Bible. It became obvious to myself and to all around me that a call of God was on my life. I didn't know, at that time, much about what I would be doing but I knew there was something.
In July of 1978, a man whom I believed to be a prophet from our church group, came to my business. He said to me, "Joan ... you know you are to be in the ministry. You are dragging your feet." I closed the business by the end of that same month to go into the ministry. I had no "ministry" to go to. I had no income. I don't recall thinking about money. I just knew a strong call of God, confirmed by God to me and confirmed many times by many people, was on my life. Six months after I closed my business, God gave me a dream showing me to go on radio. Which I did within a week of that dream.
All this in my life was sort of like Jesus saying to the various apostles, "Follow ME." and they would just leave their business and follow HIM without question. HE was their life. Nothing else mattered.
Mt. 4 ... And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 19And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. 20And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. 21And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. 22And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
It has always amazed me that they just left their business and their father and followed HIM. Yet that is what happened to me.
A woman came across my path after I began writing on Internet. She said, "Do you feel fulfilled?" I was a bit shocked. I've never thought about it. All I cared about was the Word of God and doing what God wanted me to do. That is my life.
Mt. 6 ... Jesus says ... Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.