Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
In approximately 1978, I became persuaded that I was to go into the ministry full time. I sold all the merchandise from my business and closed the business. I had the money from the merchandise to live on until other things might develop. I had no idea at all what I was to do in ministry. I didn't work for a church group. I was not supported by a church group. I had no income after the business closed on July 31 of that year.
I just stayed home, read Bible, did what I saw to do.
I had no set work in ministry from July 31 through Jan. 10 of the following year. I didn't try to get a job in a church group. I just read Bible and waited. I lived off the money from the shop merchandise through that period.
On Jan 10 of the following year, I was asleep and what I believe was an angel spoke three words to me: "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS". I didn't know what KWJS was but I assumed it had to be radio or TV station. I found it to be radio. I said to God, "Are you telling me to go on radio? I wouldn't know how to do that." Immediately I had a very gentle thought which I believed to be the Holy Spirit saying: "Just call the radio station manager." I found the phone number for radio station KWJS and called the manager and told him I thought God might be showing me to go on radio and I asked him how to do that. The manger told me to make and audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to him and if I fit their format he would offer me a contract. I asked him how much it cost. He said $800 a month / for 5 days a week of 30 minute broadcasts.
I had a tape recorder so I sat down that same day and recorded 29 1/2 minutes.
Within one week I was broadcasting on radio.
In 30 years, I have never had a steady salary. I have never worked at an individual church. Since 1984, I have not asked for offerings. Yet all my needs have been met by God through 9 or 10 people who give offerings to this ministry.
There was one point when a college in Dallas, Christ for the Nations, offered me a job as dean of women. But I didn't feel right about that so I turned it down.
It is clear to me that I had to stay free from the control of religious groups in order to speak the messages I believed to be from God. Certainly some of the messages would offend church groups. I even remember the Holy Spirit telling me along the way: "Stay free to serve God"
In 1981 while on radio in Seattle, God was giving me judgment messages to speak concerning corruption in the ministry. I was having a meeting in Seattle for the radio audience. The manager of the radio station was outside the meeting room waiting for me. George said: "Joan ... if you keep speaking these judgment messages, I don't know what is going to happen to you. We may have to put you off the air. You have many good messages. Just speak them."
I replied (yet not I but the Holy Spirit in me replied) ... "George ... if I don't speak the message I believe to be from God I don't have a message and I may as well be off the air."
What I spoke to George that day defined the next 30 years of speaking ... "Speak the message you believe to be from God."