Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The following word spoken by God to Joshua applies to each of us in the body of Christ today.
God says ...
Joshua 1
... 6 Be strong and of a good courage:
... 7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee:turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
... 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
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strong:
- able to perform a specified action well and powerfully
- able to withstand great force or pressure
- not easily discouraged
- showing determination, self control
- secure in the LORD: in that which God has told you
- belief in and intense feelings firmly held and lasting despite difficulties
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Strength comes to us as we focus on that which God has said to us. Strength to endure comes through God as we turn to God in prayer for help in the time of need and as we choose to hold fast to that which God says to us after prayer.
Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all
But the deliverance is not automatic. We have to work at deliverance through prayer and through choosing to hold onto that word given us by God, keeping that word before us day and night until the crisis ends.
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I Peter 4 ...12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you:on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.