Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Part 6: Examples of the working of the Holy Spirit
A
man in our church group, named John Rodgers, presented the following
example which shows the Holy Spirit. John had accumulated many objects
in his life of 70+ years and he was considering building another storage
building for his stuff. As he was thinking about this, he heard the
following (in form of thought) ... "Why don't you just get rid of the stuff?"
Every time I think of this wonderful example of the Holy Spirit I laugh.
Another
fun example of the Holy Spirit ... When my mother was still living I
would go get our food at the same place daily. It cost $5.30. I would
take out the five-dollar-bill and a quarter and nickle and leave my
purse in car with my mother. One day I could not find a quarter and
nickle in my purse. As I was searching through the change, I clearly
heard (in form of thought) , "Three dimes will work ..." I began laughing for I had plenty of dimes in purse!
Sometimes the way is blocked to us through habit and God will help us out showing us another way to go!
Another example:
I have a commode that is hard to flush. Each time I try to flush it I
have to hold the handle down for several seconds. It has become more
and more annoying to me.
I went into bath and it seemed it was taking even longer than usual to flush commode. I was mumbling, fussing at commode.
Then I heard: "Would you rather have an out-house?"
"NO!" ... I shouted!
The next day I called plumber. The commode is now fixed!
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I receive several invitations to go to various parts of the world and
speak to ministers and to church groups. And I always want to go. But
I believe God has shown me not to travel, although I travel daily all
over the world by the Internet writings we do daily. Still I want to go
physically when I am asked to go and frequently I am invited to go to
various countries. One invitation was especially appealing to me. I
really wanted to go speak to these ministers. But what does God want me to do? I
turned strongly to God in prayer. I asked HIM to give me something
that would strongly anchor me in what HE wanted me to do about this
subject. I just didn't feel I had a strong anchor to really show me
what God wanted. Almost immediately I heard the following words: "Remember the cat ..." I said, "Oh, yeah ... the cat!" (I have a Siamese cat.)
I
laughed! I was expecting a more lofty anchor ... I was expecting God
to give me a scripture to show me what to do ... But the cat is a very
real anchor! I knew God was confirming to me that I was to stay home
and do what I had been doing ... read the Bible and exhort the church
daily through writings! My flesh was kept in place in the real will of
God by the Holy Spirit after I committed the subject to God.
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In
the 70's, I owned a business in Dallas, TX (USA). A man called me from
Houston, TX (USA) and wanted to come talk to me about running a
business, because his wife had just started the same kind of business,
American Indian Arts. I begged this man not to come to see me telling
him I know nothing at all about business but he said I was the person
recommended to him by others and he wanted to talk with me about
marketing. He was graduate of Harvard University Business School. I
was horrified at the idea of having to talk with him. But he insisted.
The first thing he asked was about my marketing plan. I was praying
constantly as I spoke with him. I replied: "Well ... you see ... I
am a Christian ... So before I go out to buy the art objects I pray
asking God to have the Indians make the objects. Then when I get to the
reservations I pray, asking God to show me the objects to buy. Then
when I return home, I pray, asking God to send out the angels to get the
customers to come in and purchase the items, and everything sells." There was a long pause. Then he said, "Well ... that's a form of marketing." (No further questions and he left.)
To me, after I was born again, everything was dependent upon God. And it still is!
I
get frightened and even panicked but God always settles me by HIS
Spirit and puts me on the way HE wants me to go. All is done by HIS
Spirit.
When I was new Christian, a man sued me for a
million-dollars. It was so silly to me because I probably had only
$2000 to $3000 dollars at the time. Finally I realized judgment would
come against me unless I responded to this legal suit and I could end up losing my business. So I hired a
lawyer. But as months drug on, all the profit from sale of merchandise
in my business was going to pay legal fees. Finally, I knew I had to
put stop to this. I had prayed many times and a scripture was brought
to my attention (Holy Spirit). Isaiah 54:17 ... No weapon that is
formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise
against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the
servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the
LORD. I told lawyer this lawsuit was a weapon against me and if
the Bible is true it would not prosper since I am a Christian. So I
had decided to dismiss his law firm and go to court without human legal
counsel.
Lawyer was so shocked. He said, "Joan ...
you can't do this. You don't realize how evil these courts are. It
will only take another $10,000 to try your case." At that point I was shocked and replied, "10,000 ... Stop Gordon ... don't do anything else." I dismissed the attorney.
About
a week later, Gordon called me and told me they had decided to try my
case without further charge to me. But what is going on? One week it
was going to cost me $10,000 and the next week it was going to be free?
I told Gordon I would have to see. I prayed and God (by HIS Spirit)
reminded me of following scripture ... Gen. 14 ... And the king of
Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to
thyself. 22And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine
hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and
earth, 23That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and
that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I
have made Abram rich: By this I knew God was telling me to turn
down the "free" legal service, so I did that. Six days before the
trial the man dropped all charges against everyone. He had been suing
several people and his lawyer who called me to tell me of the dropping
of charges said this man "cut everyone loose". It was over. But it was
terrifying. And it went on for several months. God would remind me of
scripture to help me (again it was the Holy Spirit bringing these
scriptures to my attention). I recorded the scriptures on cassette tape
and played the tape each night. I would fall asleep to the scriptures
and when I awoke during the night I would start the recorder again.
This helped sustain me during the months of torment.
Part 7: Jesus says ...
I
can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is
just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father
which hath sent me. Jn. 5:30
Jesus heard from God. Jesus, the Son of God, the creator of all things, said HE could do nothing, except what HE heard from God.
The same is true for us today.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Jn. 6:63
Jesus speaks to us today by HIS Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth.
Until we hear what God has to say by HIS Spirit, we can do nothing.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Romans 8:14
(These
writings are not available in printed paper form. They are only
available on Internet. You are welcome to copy them and distribute them
to your church group.)