Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
James 4:4 ... 4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
friend:
- a person who acts as a supporter
- a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection
- a person who is on the same side
- a familiar or helpful thing
- a person who approves
- a person who encourages
- a person who is actively interest in and wishes success for
When a person begins to speak and we see it is opposite from the way of God and we keep quiet and let them think we agree we are practicing hypocrisy ...
James 3:17 ... 17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
hypocrisy:
- acting / to pretend one thing while another is what you really believe
When we practice hypocrisy we choose to live in darkness and a lie and that allows devil (who is father of lies and no truth in him) to come into us and dwell. If we speak truth devil will not have that opening. Devil will flee from us if we speak truth. Children of this world who are of devil will not want to cling to us. I don't want them clinging to me. All I have to do to be free is to speak what I really believe.
Recently Pam told me story of one of her neighbors who spoke about some discount store where she got big savings on dog things. Pam said she doesn't even like that store and that "savings" search is not even the way God is leading her. Pam said nothing. The neighbor went away thinking Pam approved her sayings. This is hypocrisy.
Pam has a lot of problems wanting people to like her ... I was reminded of James 4:4 ... whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Also I talked to Pam about living in hypocrisy by keeping quiet when she doesn't agree with someone.
I don't want to live this way any longer.
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An amazing thing ... unknown to me the morning I received this information concerning friendship with the world being enmity with God & wisdom being without practicing hypocrisy, Pam Padgett was praying telling God she really needed something to break up her long-standing desire to be a friend to worldly people and to have them "like" her. It seemed impossible to get a break through in dealing with this and Pam thought it would take a long time to break through this stronghold built up against the way of God through the years since childhood. The information in this writing had the power to break this up immediately. By the end of the day Pam was viewing this differently.