Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Jesus said: Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Jn. 6:53
How do you eat Jesus?
Jesus is THE WORD. We eat Jesus each time we consume THE WORD that is given us by the Holy Spirit. We think on that word. We take it into our lives by doing that
word. Doing the word given by the Holy Spirit is eating the flesh
of Jesus (the Word) and drinking the blood of Jesus (the Word)
This is the way we partake of the Lord's supper.
Jn. 6 ... Jesus said ... I am
that bread of life. (The Word is that bread of life.)
49Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and
are dead. 50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man
may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down
from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and
the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life
of the world.
52The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying,
How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53Then Jesus said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of
man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my
flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up
at the last day. 55For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink
indeed. 56He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in
me, and I in him. 57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the
Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 58This is that
bread which came down from heaven:
Today the Word comes down from heaven to us by the Holy Spirit. We have the Word brought to our minds. Focus on that Word. That is the bread of life coming to us. We live by that Word brought down from heaven to us by God by the Spirit of God.
This is the Lord's supper ... The Word of God that comes down from heaven today by the Spirit of God to give life to those of us who eat and drink that Word, doing that Word in our lives.
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In Matthew 25, Jesus exhorts us to keep oil in our lamps so we will be ready for the return of the bridegroom.
Then
shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took
their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2And five of them
were wise, and five were foolish. 3They that were foolish took their
lamps, and took no oil with them: 4But the wise took oil in their
vessels with their lamps. 5While the bridegroom tarried, they all
slumbered and slept.
6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the
bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7Then all those virgins arose,
and trimmed their lamps. 8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us
of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9But the wise answered,
saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye
rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10And while they went
to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him
to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11Afterward came also the other
virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12But he answered and said,
Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 13Watch therefore, for ye know
neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
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We will be reading the Bible and sometimes a verse of scripture just
stands out and we try to read past that verse and keep being pulled back
to that verse.
When this happens, stop trying to go ahead and focus on that verse. There is a special message from God to you in that verse.
This is called "meditating" in the Word from God. As you do this, you eat the flesh of Jesus and you drink the blood of Jesus.
This is where the power is. The power is in that specific verse that stands out to you.
You may need to spend several days, weeks, or even months on that
verse. I have often spent several months looking daily at the same
verse.
Joshua 1 ...
8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt
meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do
according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy
way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Twice in Joshua 1, God speaks of the correlation of prosperity and acting upon that which God has shown you.
Joshua 1:7-8 ... 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. 8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that
thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for
then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good
success.
I have found that I prosper
without trying to prosper. All I've been trying to do for the past 30+
years is what God tells me to do.
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And God says ... Have not I commanded thee? Joshua 1:9 ... Has God commanded you? Are you really hearing from God to do that? If it is really God, it will happen but you must be very courageous.
In 1980, God spoke to me in the night while I slept ... 3 words ... "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS" ...
"What did it mean?" I asked God. (Turned out KWJS was radio station.) "Are you telling me to go on radio? I wouldn't know how to do that." (Gentle
impression: Call radio station manager) I called that morning.
Manager said make audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and if I fit with
their broadcasting they would offer me a contract. I made an audition
tape immediately. (I just sat down and spoke that which God brought to my mind by HIS Spirit and mailed tape that day to radio station.) Within a week I was on radio five days a week for 30 minutes per day.
Was that God WHO commanded me? I was certainly persuaded it was.
Sometimes a scripture will strongly stand out to you ... Phil. 2 stood out to me this way about 2 years ago ...
Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the
form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7But made himself of no reputation,
I began to meditate on this and stayed on it for about 7 months trying to conform my actions to this scripture.
People
do all sorts of things to exalt themselves above other people. The
apostle told us Jesus didn't do that and for us to have the "same mind"
Jesus had, making ourselves of "no reputation" ...
I
stopped playing bridge where the entire goal is to beat everyone else in
the room. Even when I played bridge I often thought, "Would Jesus or Paul be doing this." My answer was, "Of course not." They wouldn't be trying to beat other people and exalt themselves. I stopped forever.
It was meditating in this scripture that gave me the direction I took and gave me the power to stop.
For
the next 7 months I just sat alone at my house in Lubbock. I knew
there was no place for me to go and nothing for me to do. At the end of
7 months, God gave me a dream to show me to go on Internet and do
exhortations. Within 3 days of the dream, we were publishing on
Internet. (Started last week in March, 2012)
At
this point in time, I don't think I'm doing anything at all to exalt
myself. Often when I write these exhortations people hate and despise
me because of that which I write. That is the way the real word of God is. It is a cross. It often brings shame to the person who speaks it or writes it.
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One
of the first things God taught me back in 1975 was meditating on the
Word HE gave me so I would have strength and courage to do what HE
wanted me to do ... and also that in doing that, I would prosper
everywhere I went ... and this happened! (prosper means to have good success)
This form of meditation is eating the flesh of Jesus and drinking the blood of Jesus.
Psalm 1
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.
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord;
and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And 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.