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Vol. 3 ... #13
God bearing witness with signs following
Jesus said ... The Father that sent ME beareth witness of ME. Jn. 8:18
Once John the Baptist sent his disciples to see if Jesus was the ONE promised or should they look for another.
Lk. 7 ... 20 When the men were come unto HIM, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto THEE, saying, Art thou HE that should come? or look we for another? 21 And in that same hour HE cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind HE gave sight. 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Jesus talked about signs following us who believe in HIM.
Mark 16 ... 15 And HE said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In MY name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Signs do follow us who believe.
I thought about this in my own life and God reminded me of the following "signs" that followed me.
- Pam Padgett told me she was given a dream from God. In that dream, I (Joan Boney) was her "supervisor" ...
- Barbara Preston in our little church group, was praying, asking God to show her if anything was hidden from her concerning the subject for which she was praying ... I became very troubled about Barbara's situation and called her to tell her the something was hidden from her. (after I told her that which had been hidden, she confessed that morning she had been praying, asking God to show her if something was hidden from her.) This is a sign to both Barbara and to me concerning the calling that God has on my life in the ministry to the church.
- When I was baptized the second time, after being born again, the minister at the church asked me if I would like to say anything before I was baptized. I began telling my relatives who had gathered at the church building to witness my baptism how I had been born again and God told me to be baptized. I just spoke as led by the Spirit of God. My uncle, seated in the audience, began crying. One of my cousins was moving her head up and down saying "YES, YES", as I was speaking. After the baptism, my uncle came to me and said, "I've never heard anything before like you were saying. Could you write that out and send it to me?" I believe this uncle was born again as I spoke.
- Toward the end of his life, my father, who had never gone to church, wrote to me saying, "Come see me and we will go to church." I had sent him a set of tape recordings from my radio broadcasts, and my mother said he wouldn't stop listening to these recordings ... He listened to them over and over. He had a stroke and was physically handicapped at that time. I suspect he was born again as he listened to those recordings.
- My mother who did not go to any church, came to me saying: "I want to have a faith like yours." I had read scripture to her and she believed the scripture and said, "Then I guess we'd better not do that anymore." (Deut. 18 ... concerning things like horoscopes) I believe she was born again as I read these scripture to her. My uncle, the one who was likely born again as I was baptized, wrote me after this saying, "You're mother has changed ... she has really changed." That is what being born again is about ... changed but changed by God ...
- I was dating a man who worked for a Christian Book publisher. Bob was probably not born again at that time. One of the authors for Revelle publishing came to Dallas and Bob had to supervise her time in Dallas. Bob knew this woman, Dale Evans Rodgers, was very religious. Bob knew I was very religious. So he asked me to go to dinner with them when he took her to dinner. It was just the 3 of us. Dale and I got along very well ... both of us were excited about God and we talked constantly and freely about God. We took Dale back to her hotel and Bob got out of the car and they started walking toward the hotel entrance. Dale stopped and returned to the car where I was sitting and she said to me, "I don't know how I know this but you are going to be mightily used by God. You are going to have to stay very close to HIM."
I know there have been other signs following me ... often people have said to me, "We know the hand of God is upon you." ... and it is.
God had HIS plan for me and HE taught me as HE teaches all HIS people and HE raised me up to do HIS work which I believe strongly centers around helping the church in the end times as the iniquity of this world increases around us... for one of the main needs for us is in area of "godly exhortations" ... which I do constantly ...
See on amazon.com ... Joan Boney ... list of books, currently 13 ministry books ... exhorting the church in the ways of God and helping the church focus constantly throughout the day on things of God which is critical in end times.
Also see blog: Jesus Ministries Exhortation ... presenting daily writings exhorting church in ways of God with current warnings as they arise from day to day. The great advantage to having this blog is it going all over the world instantly and I am able to write fresh warnings that same day they are published.
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I'm sure you also have "signs following" if you have Holy Spirit and follow God.
If you ask God to show you, I believe HE will.
These are helpful to our faith in this evil time.