Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
From approximately 2004 to 2011, I played bridge at our local bridge center. (I no longer play bridge.)
During that time, I would often take writings I had done for the church to the director of the Bridge Center. Betty said she really liked to read what I wrote to the church. Her grandfather was a Baptist preacher. Betty and I connected very strongly and I suspect she was born again. She said she liked to read everything I wrote.
After I left Bridge Center, Betty would call me from time to time to tell me that someone there was ill or in hospital. I knew she did this because she believed I would either pray or go see that person and carry the word of God to that person.
The connection between Betty and I was never broken even though I have not talked with her for 2 or 3 years.
A few days before writing this report to you, I had a dream about Betty. In this dream, we were playing bridge. We finished our hand and were waiting for director (Betty) to call a move to next table. We waiting a long time and there was no call. We got up and couldn’t find Betty. She was gone.
I felt this was likely showing me Betty would die or be in hospital taking her away from Bridge Center.
About 2 days after this dream, I had finished all the writings I had and I told God, “I need something more to do.”
The next morning after praying this, I awoke and Betty was clearly in my mind. (Betty is approximately 87-years-old.) I knew to get these kindle books I have written for the church to her! I have a first generation Kindle which I am not using. All 10 of the church books are on that Kindle. Also the Graphically Illustrated Guide to Kindle which Pam Padgett and I wrote (for non-computer generation) to help people is on that Kindle. I called Betty immediately.
I explained I had written 10 books for the church and would like to bring her my first generation kindle so she would be able to read these books.
She was delighted! But she explained she has no computer. I told her she didn’t need a computer. She would be able to read these books from my kindle which I was bringing to her.
We arranged to meet at the Bridge Center at noon. (She was working that day, directing the bridge session at 1 p.m.)
Betty was so happy to be able to read the church books I have written.
She has a terrible home life. Her grandson, his wife, their babies have moved into her house. I know they have money problems. The grandson wrecked her car a few years ago. In the background, as I spoke with her by phone, I could hear people screaming at each other. It was a general disruption.
As I left the Bridge Center, I told Betty these books would bring great peace to her. I told her she can read them when she goes to bed and find both peace and comfort. I know that is so. I don’t think she has much peace nor comfort in her home life.
Also I explained if she has to go for doctor’s appointment she can take the Kindle with her and read it as she waits. Or if she has to go to hospital she can have all her books right there by her bed in the Kindle. She doesn’t have to be concerned about a light to read by for the Kindle has direct lighting.
I knew God had set all this up for her to help her, especially with the change that I know is coming to her life.
I’m certain the Holy Spirit was leading in this all through the situation.
This is one way God works through the Holy Spirit to care for the church.
God watches over us day and night and provides for each of HIS people even before there is a need in our lives!
Something else happened at Bridge Center as I spoke with director and demonstrated the use of the Kindle … another woman was sitting there with us.
After I spoke, she told a story of a woman who fell asleep while using e-reader and it caught her bed on fire.
The Holy Spirit is “The Spirit of Truth” … and guides us into “all truth” (I believe about all things, secular and spiritual)
After I got home, I was reminded of this story.
And I was also reminded that the Kindle shuts off “automatically” if you do not use it in about 5 minutes. There could be no heat coming from a Kindle that is inactive.
I even tested the other “generation 1” Kindle that I have here at my house. There was almost no heat as I used the Kindle. I let it go off automatically and there was no warmth at all on the unit case.
Here is the letter I wrote Betty:
Letter to Betty
2-17-2016
Betty: I know J thinks that story that woman told is true about bed catching fire when she fell asleep with e-reader. But I don’t believe that is a true story. I have fallen asleep many times while using Kindle.
Also I was reminded, I think by spirit of God, that the Kindle shuts off automatically after it is inactive for a few minutes.
I am testing this Kindle right now … the one exactly like I brought to you … Generation 1 Kindle, the first Kindle ever made. I even had to wait 2 weeks after ordering it from Amazon because it was being manufactured. So I know there were no earlier Kindles than this Kindle.
It is on right now. I am going to allow it to shut off automatically and see if I can feel any warmth at all after about 3-5 minutes after it has shut off.
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It just now shut off. I would say it shut off 5 minutes after use when I failed to use it again.
Now I will wait at least 5 minutes and feel the unit.
I suggest you do same thing with the unit you have.
Results: The unit is stone cold. It couldn’t possible cause fire.
People will tell anything for sensation.
And people who hear such tales will often repeat those tales without questioning the validity … and by repeating such tales they can cause other people to fear needlessly.
But the Holy Spirit reveals truth to us.
No telling what that woman was doing. But I am satisfied it was not with Kindle. For Kindle cuts off automatically.
Try it yourself.
Love, Joan
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If you repeat a story that turns out to be “untrue”, then you are guilty of “bearing false witness” to other people, even when you didn’t know the story to be untrue.
When the story is untrue, the story is untrue … if you tell it, you tell a story that is untrue.
So you must not repeat such stories. Be careful what you take in and give out of your own mouth.
The woman today who told this story at the table where I was showing Betty how to use the Kindle, is a woman who appears very prim and proper and does many works which seem good to other people.
One time when I still played bridge, this same woman began speaking about how “wonderful” the preacher was at her church. She said, “The sermon was so wonderful yesterday. I didn’t understand a word of what he was saying.” She seemed to think the more “scholarly” the greater.
As I considered this woman and what she did today, I was reminded of the difference between Cain and Able. Hebrews 11 … 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts:and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Genesis 4… 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.
What made Abel’s offering “acceptable”?
Once I asked God what the difference was between these offerings. Immediately I heard “by faith” Abel offered … Look again at the first part of Heb. 11:4 … By faith Abel offered unto God ...
I was led “by faith” to make the offering I made to Betty. I believed that was what God wanted me to do … having been given the dream about Betty … then awakening with Betty and the idea of taking the Kindle to her so she could read the church writings which we have published on Amazon. (I knew Betty didn’t have a computer therefore she could not order the ministry books from Amazon and could not see these writings on blog.)
When we believe God has shown us to do something, and we do it, that is “by faith” that we have heard from God what to do.