Gen. 22 ... And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 4Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 5And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. 7And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. 9And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 10And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Mt. 13 ... Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. 45Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 46Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Comments by Joan Boney ..
After I was born again, in the night I was transported into heaven. I was merged into the body of Jesus, God and Holy Spirit witnessing. (I saw no image of a man. It was in the Spirit.) The same thing happened to me again, a few nights later. I was on fire for the Word of God. It is all I wanted to talk about. I read the Bible constantly. I held nothing back from anyone. My father told my mother I had gone over the edge concerning religion. She replied, "No ... she's OK" ... This was strange for usually my dad was for everything I did and my mother was against what I did. Now it reversed.
I just kept talking about God to everyone around me. At one point my mother said to me, "I would like to have a faith like yours." Before it was over, my mother was born again and so was my dad.
Nothing was more important to me than the Word of God. I just spoke of God where I was.
Lately I am very aware of people who speak in pride and in their own wisdom. I do not want to hear their wisdom. I have begun telling them that when they try to tell me their wisdom. I just tell them I want my wisdom to be from God, not from man. I tell them I pray, asking God to show me what to do. God knows how to reach me in a way that I can understand.
I do not want to go in the way of man. I do not want to get my wisdom from newspapers, TV, people, secular books. I want my wisdom to come from God.
Psa. 1 ... Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2But his delight is in the law (rules & concepts) of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.