Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
When we are called by God, everything that happens conforms us to the image of Jesus according to the purpose of God.
Romans 8 ... 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to HIS purpose.
29 For whom HE did foreknow, HE also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of HIS Son, that HE might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom HE did predestinate, them HE also called: and whom HE called, them HE also justified: and whom HE justified, them HE also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Even of Jesus we read: 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; Heb. 5:8
We go through various things in this life which cause us to be changed ... and that change is into the image of the WORD, Jesus Christ.
HE predestinated us to be conformed to the image of HIS Son ... HE called us ... HE chose us ... Salvation is of God, by HIS will and not by our own will. There is an elect of God. We, who are called by God and chosen by God are that elect of God, predetermined by God to be what we end up being for the glory of God.
The glory of man, of the flesh, is not the same as the glory of God.
Man wants to praise man. Fleshly church people think other people will want to be Christians when some famous person says he is a Christian. Fleshly people admire great and famous humans.
There was a time in the 70's when Dallas Cowboy football coach Tom Landry was set up as a Christian before men. It was thought to be a very good thing by fleshly church people, thinking others would want to be Christians because of this man and his reputation.
Dale Evans Rodgers (wife of Roy Rodgers) was another of those admired among fleshly church people. (I believe Dale was a real Christian. I knew her personally because the man I dated worked for her book publisher and when she came to Dallas, Bob took Dale and I to dinner, just the 3 of us. Dale was truly on fire for things of God and you could tell that is all she really wanted to talk about. She and I got along very well as we both freely shared things of God with one another.)
But we read in I Cor. 1 that not "many" famous people are called by God. (However some are.)
I Cor. 1 ... 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
A few famous people are called by God and belong to HIM, "but not many" ...
God does not draw us to HIMSELF by flesh ... Mostly we come to God because God reveals our sin to us ... and we come to HIM because of the Word HE gave us ... therefore it is Jesus, the Word, that brings us to God but by the will of God and not our own will ... God opens our eyes as HE wills, causing us to be born again by HIS Spirit that we can now see things of God which we could not see before.
Most of us are really pretty undesirable human beings so far as other humans are concerned!
How can "she" be a Christian? (I've had that said over me more than once.) Some pretty undesirable people are chosen by God. Some physically unattractive people are chosen by God. That no man would glory in the flesh of humans. But we who are of God glory in those who really belong to God knowing they were chosen by God by HIS will and are of the promise as we are, and not of the flesh, and they can see things of the kingdom of God as we see having HIS Spirit as we have HIS Spirit, one with Christ by HIS Spirit by the will of God and not of the flesh of man.
So ... If God be for us, who can be against us?
At some point the enemies of Jesus will see HIM coming through the air and they will wail, "OH, NO!" ... not HIM ...
Rev. 1 ... 7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
And they will see us with HIM for we will appear with Him. (Col. 3:4 ... When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with HIM in glory. )
And they will wail when they see us with HIM and be shocked that we are with HIM ...
I Thess 4 ... 13But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (die), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep. 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.