Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Monday of this week, things were so bad I just went to bed and spent the afternoon in bed reading various scriptures which I had underlined in the Bible. There was a special focus on the various scriptures in Psalms where David was crying out to God to be delivered.
One situation I am dealing with is secular and the other situation has to do with a problem revealed by a person in our little church group.
In the secular situation, I am dealing with some business people who have shown themselves to be very vindictive. I was very frightened. I have evidence that one of the people in this business would stop at nothing to harm me personally. Various ways he could try to hurt me came to my mind. I took each of these thoughts to God asking Him for help. When I prayed, I was reminded of another situation where a young man took vindictive action against me. He turned me into the IRS (USA tax investigation) and they set up an investigation against me and two IRS agents appeared at my door one day unannounced. One agent was holding a clip board and when I went to the door he looked at the clip board and said the name of this young man who was offended by me. The agent didn't mean to reveal the name of this man. It was an accident. But the fact that this man's name was on the papers held by the IRS man told me this is the man who filed the report against me and asked for them to investigate me.
I told the agents immediately that they were welcome to take with them all cancelled checks and all financial books that I keep for my personal accounts and for the ministry accounts. They were very shocked that I would give everything to them. One agent said, "Did you hear that? We can take with us all cancelled checks."
I told the agents I was happy to have them investigate me. If I was doing anything wrong it would have been accidental and through a failure to understand the rules and if they found I was doing anything wrong I would change it.
The agents took all the materials. A few weeks later, they returned everything and I asked them if they found any thing wrong and they said they did not.
One great financial benefit to me occurred as a result of their investigation. I am an ordained minister and recognized as such by the United States Federal Government. When I began in the ministry, we had no money coming into the ministry so I declined to be in the medicare program and the social security program which would have cost the ministry money that we couldn't afford at that time. I was allowed to decline being in these programs because of minister status. But it meant I would never be able to have medical insurance from government nor would I ever be able to receive money from social security in later life. I signed a paper with my IRS agent at the time declaring this option.
When I was investigated the agent mentioned this. He said I could buy back into the government program if I wanted to do so. I told him I had signed papers declining at the time we began the ministry in the late 70's. He said there was no record of my signing any papers and since there was no record, I had the option of buying back into the system if I wanted to do so. I had plenty of money to do this in the mid-90's so I chose to do this. As a result I can now be in the medicare program which pays for about 80 percent of my hospital and doctor visits. And I receive monthly social security benefits of $777 which I am able to live on at this time.
Joseph said: Gen. 50:20 ... But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good,
What I believe God is showing me is this: This young man may try to hurt me but if he does, God will turn it to good and this young man will not be able to harm me. I am reminded even as I am writing this of the men who were thrown into the oven in the Book of Daniel and how their clothes were not even singed.
Daniel 3 ... Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 2Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 3Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 4Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, 5That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: 6And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. 7Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. 9They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. 10Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: 11And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. 12There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. 13Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king. 14Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? 15Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? 16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. 20And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. 22Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 23And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. 24Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. 25He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. 26Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. 27And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
I believe God is showing the same thing to me. In this secular matter, I will not be hurt in any way by this vindictive young man. So there is no need for me to fear nor continue to be disturbed.
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In the second matter I've been dealing with at the same time as the first ...
We can almost be destroyed by the sins of others. I did say "almost". A woman who has been in church groups all her life told me she had an abortion. I was devastated to hear this and so shocked since she had sat where there was Bible teaching from the time she was a very young child. I wouldn't have been as affected had she been a person of the world. I wish she had not told me this. She is a person who drops bombs with her mouth and before you know it she has spoken something that is devastating. Perhaps this turns to good in that I am warned about her. I thought she was better but this came forth from her this week so she is still dangerous... perhaps a warning to me.
God will restore me. I feel certain of that.
There is an instruction to each of us. Speak things that edify the body of Christ when we speak. The telling of past sins must have a point of edification if you speak such. You must be very careful concerning sharing of past sins with other people. This can do great harm to others.