Sunday, April 30, 2017

Hebrews 5 ... Reading through the Bible

1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.  3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 

4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
 

5 So also Christ glorified not HIMSELF to be made an HIGH PRIEST; but HE that said unto HIM, THOU art MY Son, to day have I begotten THEE.


6 As HE saith also in another place, THOU art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec

7 WHO in the days of HIS flesh, when HE had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto HIM that was able to save HIM from death, and was heard in that HE feared; 

8 Though HE were a Son, yet learned HE obedience by the things which HE suffered; 

9 And being made perfect, HE became THE AUTHOR of eternal salvation unto all them that obey HIM; 

10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 

11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
 

12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 

14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

The Word is God


Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

Jn. 1:1 ... In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.


Jesus said:

Jn. 5:39-40 ... (Ye) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of ME.  And ye will not come to ME, that ye might have life.

The Word is God ... the scriptures are about HIM ... But when the Holy Spirit reveals a scripture to us then that "is God" for it is God speaking to us directly.



Success in All That You Do


Joan Boney ... apostle / prophet

As children of God, we should expect to have success in all that we do in this present life so long as God has shown us to do that thing.

If you are a parent and dealing with your children, shouldn't you have God's wisdom?  It is readily available to you through prayer.

James 1:5 ... If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

If you can believe the above scripture and promise, and ask in faith, don't you also believe God will show you want to do?

In everything in this life the promise of receiving wisdom from God applies.

I used this all the time when I had a business, in the purchase of merchandise for my shop.  Every item I bought sold.  I didn't know anything at all about business, but I did know about God.  I would just ask God to show me what to buy each time I was confronted with buying and I trusted God to do that for me, leading me. 

If you work for a difficult boss, why wouldn't it work for you to act on wisdom from God?


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Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers.  He entered Egypt with the clothes on his back.  Potiphar bought Joseph and because God gave Joseph wisdom, he was exalted to second in command in Potiphar's house.

Genesis 39 ... And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.


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If you belong to God ... seeking the will of God in the matter at hand ... knowing how to hear the spirit of God and follow God ... and you meditate day and night on that word brought to your mind by God ... how can you not succeed in all that you do?


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The following instructions which God gave to Joshua fits everyone in the assignment given them by God when God has called the person.

Joshua 1

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

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.

This 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.

Have not I commanded thee?  (Isn't this what God wants you to do?)

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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There are several points in the above instruction for you to focus on.

BOOK: Psalms


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* Psalm 61


Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
 

From the end of the earth
will I cry unto THEE,
when my heart is overwhelmed:
lead me to THE ROCK that is higher than I.
 


For THOU hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
 

I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. 
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For THOU, O God, hast heard my vows: THOU hast given me the heritage 
of those that fear THY name. 

THOU wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.
 

He shall abide before God for ever:
O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
 

So will I sing praise unto THY name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

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Volume 5 ... #14
Paul instructs ...


Phil. 2 ... 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life;

A pastor in Shreveport, LA, USA, wanted to remarry after divorce.  He heard me speak about this subject and he called me and asked me if there had been any change since I spoke that message.

I told him so far as I knew, the Bible had not changed.

Mt. 5:32 ... Jesus said ... 32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.


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Mk. 10 ... 2 And the Pharisees came to HIM (to Jesus), and asked HIM, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting HIM. 

3 And HE answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.  

10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. 11 And he (Jesus) saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. 


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I Cor. 7 ... 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

...  39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.


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Romans 7 ...  1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.


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Many in churches twist these scripture to approve their remarrying after divorce or to allow them to feel approved by marrying a divorced woman.  But regardless, each will give account of himself by what he does in opposition to the Word of God.

Paul says in the last days there will be perilous times in the churches ... II Tim. 3 ... 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.


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When a person comes to us identifying himself as a Christian, "having a form of godliness" ... but denies the power of the scripture to rule over him ... Paul says, "from such turn away."  Depart from that person who will not heed scripture and goes in ways opposite to scripture.

Saturday, April 29, 2017

Hebrews 4 ... Reading through the Bible

1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into HIS rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 

2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it

3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as HE said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into MY rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For HE spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all HIS works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into MY rest.
 

6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, HE limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts.
 

8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would HE not afterward have spoken of another day. 

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 

10 For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.
 

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 

12 For the word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in HIS sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of HIM with whom we have to do.
 

14 Seeing then that we have A GREAT HIGH PRIEST, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 

15 For we have not AN HIGH PRIEST which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 

16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

The Greatest Sacrifice We, a Christian, Can Make Today


Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

I awoke one morning in late April, 2017, with this understanding which I believe is from God.

The greatest sacrifice we can make today is to give up our church group when we recognize misuse of scripture and other evils in that church group.



Restoring Joy


Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

Isaiah 55 ... For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.  Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

You can't go if there is no joy.

I'm not speaking of fleshly happiness.

I'm speaking of something else.

I went through several days of trial and struggle with our little church group as they spoke vain  religious puffed up nonsense.  I rebuked them sharply and temporarily they sobered up.  Grief came upon me as I thought of them.  I would awaken in the mornings and be so sad, like some terrible thing was about to befall me.  I cried out to God for help as I had been crying out to God for help all through the struggle with our church group.  I had no joy.  It was all gone.  I prayed for God to restore my joy, somehow.

Then I was reminded of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego(Dan. 3)

I was writing something at the time.  I went to Daniel 3 to quote what they pronounced and I became so very joyful when I heard their words again, for I've read this many time.

I realized my joy comes from that which these truly godly people say ... Esther, Abraham, David ...

FOCUS ON THEM.

Let them be my friends.  Joy will go through the roof with them!  Spend time with them.


Though HE Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust IN HIM …Job 13:15

In 1980, I was asleep in the night when a trumpet like voice, which I believe to have been the voice of an angel, spoke 3 words into my ear … “Hartford, Seattle, KWJS”

I jumped out of bed and wrote KWJS down on a note pad. It was obvious to me these letters must be call letters to either radio or television.

They were call letters to a Christian broadcast radio station.

I said to God, “Are you telling me to go on radio? I wouldn’t know how to do that.”

A very gentle voice spoke the following thought into my mind. “Call the radio station manager.”

The Holy Spirit often speaks through thoughts put into the mind of the believer.

As soon as office business hours arrived for the radio station, I called and spoke to the radio station manager. (The radio station KWJS was in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.)

I told the station manager it might be that God was telling me to go on radio. I asked the manager “how” you do that.

The manager replied: “Send us an audition tape 29 ½ minutes long and if you fit our broadcasting, we will offer you a contract.”

I asked how much it cost. At that time the cost was $800 per month for 5 days / 30 minute broadcast.


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I recorded an audition broadcast that morning and sent it that day to the radio station manager and was offered a contract and was on radio within a week.

The broadcast was in a good time period, the noon-day hour.

A woman in Fort Worth had been praying for God to put a faith teacher on radio in a vacant noon-day radio spot.

She turned on her radio and one broadcast ended and a woman began speaking. She was very disappointed and shouted, “A woman … NO …” and she headed from her chair to the radio to turn the broadcast off. Before she reached the radio dial, she had become interested in that which was being said on this program. She left the station on, listened to the broadcast and became an immediate listener to my broadcast.

Success was instant.

Within a very short time, I added another city, Houston. Then another, Oklahoma City. Within about 8 months, the program had spread from coast to coast in USA with broadcasts in NYC, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Denver, Seattle, Eugene Oregon, Bakersfield CA, Phoenix.

I travelled to each city where I was on radio and spoke to the radio audience.

Audiences increased in size.

I wrote two booklets: Taking Thoughts Captive and Healing the Wounded Believer.

Book stores in the Faith Movement churches couldn’t keep these books on the shelf because they sold so fast.

Everything exceeded over all I had ever imagined.

I began to be well known in church circles.

TV talk show ministers had begun to invite me to speak on their television ministries.

I had just finished a one week session on a TV show in Detroit and was heading back to Dallas when I heard the following instruction which I believed to be from the Holy Spirit:

“Don’t do any more TV talk shows.”

I had two more TV talk shows scheduled and I thought surely God would want me to fulfill my commitment to those 2 shows in Phoenix & Dallas? … God didn’t.

I became persuaded that God wanted me to cancel those TV shows … But how to do that? What reason could I give for canceling?

I heard the following word from the Holy Spirit: “Why don’t you just tell them the truth.”

THE TRUTH? I certainly didn’t want to do that!

(But I did.)

I called the Dallas TV station and asked to speak to the TV minister. I called at an hour hoping the minister would not be in the studio. The minister of the show answered the phone call.

I said, “I’m going to have to cancel my appearance on your TV show. God has told me not to do any more TV talk shows.”

“Okay.” Said the TV minister. She didn’t really seem to care.

Then I called and cancelled the Phoenix TV show.

I continued in my radio broadcast and was having meetings in the cities where I was on radio.



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As I was enroute from meeting in Seattle, the Holy Spirit said to me,

“The foundation is laid. Now we are really going to move.”

I was certainly excited over this word. I was on radio from coast to coast in big cities in USA. Radio audiences had increased to about 800 per meeting. My two books were selling like “hot-cakes” in the faith movement churches. They couldn’t keep them on the shelves because they were selling so fast. And “now we’re really going to move.”

I failed to consider the following: God says, “MY ways are not your ways and MY thoughts are not your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9

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I was invited to speak at a small church in Hobbs, NM (USA).

As I flew back from Hobbs to Dallas where I lived at the time, the Holy Spirit began speaking to me. Over and over, HE said:

The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God…The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God …The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God …

I didn’t know what this meant.

Shortly after hearing this, from the Holy Spirit, God opened my eyes to various sins being committed by big-time ministers.

Even though I was relatively well known in ministry circles at that time, I found I was unable to deliver these messages of warning to the ministers called to my attention.

Big time ministers frequently surround themselves by “body guards” to keep the church people away from them.

One minister, Jim Bakker, responded to a cassette tape which I had sent to him where I warned him about the sin I had been shown by God. I sent a cover letter on my ministry letter head. The name of my ministry is Jesus Ministries. The warning I sent concerned the subject of adultery, which it turns out he was committing and it was later revealed to all.

I received a response by letter as follows: (from Jim Bakker)


It was obviously a standard ministry form letter made to appear to be a personal letter. It was hypocrisy. It was fake, sent out from his office staff in mass to people who wrote to the Bakker ministry.

It wasn’t long after that before the sins of the Bakker ministry became known to all. The US government charged Bakker with fraud and misuse of church funds and he was eventually sentenced to prison.

There were other serious problems with both the Bakkers from drug use causing Tammy Faye to enter the Betty Ford Clinic and sexual charges against Jim Bakker concerning his relations with a church secretary.

Tammy Faye Bakker divorced and remarried and died of cancer.

In Wikipedia (Internet Encyclopedia) the Bakker’s are said to be affiliated with the Assembly of God church group.

The apostle Paul instructed in the Bible …

I Cor. 5 … It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

(Notice that Paul did not say to pray for such a person as this … nor did Paul say to counsel such a person … Paul said to turn him over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.)

I Cor. 5 … Paul says

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:  Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?  But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.


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Jimmy Swaggart was another minister I was shown to carry messages of warning to … again, he was unreachable.

He, too, was Assembly of God.

He was later caught with prostitute and gave an extremely tearful statement on national TV saying, “I have sinned …” as he wept bitterly.

I visited a small Assembly of God church at that time and the pastor was saying, “We should pray for Brother Swaggart.”

I said, “You should put Swaggart out of the church."  (I said this very softly ... it just came out of my mouth as I was shocked at what that pastor said.  Apparently the woman sitting in the row in front of me heard me for she turned and glared at me.)

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Since I could not reach these isolated ministers to deliver messages of God, though I identified myself to them as a prophet sent by God, I spoke on my nationwide radio broadcast about each of the ministers shown me by God. I cited the evil and spoke of the judgment presented in the Bible for such acts in the NT church, naming each minister by name on my broadcast.

I received much hate mail from individuals who identified themselves as “Christians.”

Jimmy Swaggart owned two of the radio stations where I was speaking: one in Dallas and another in Houston.

They put me off the air.

I continued at the other stations.

At a meeting in Seattle, the radio station manager of the Seattle station was waiting for me outside the meeting room. George said to me,

“Joan … I don’t know what is going to happen to you if you continue to speak these judgment messages. You have many good messages. Just speak those messages. If you continue to speak these judgment messages we may have to put you off the air.”

Without any thought whatsoever, the following came out of my mouth in response:

“George … if I don’t speak the message I believe to be from God then I don’t have a message and I may as well be off the air.”

This statement would define my life and the ministry I had been given for the remainder of my life on this earth.

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Lk. 21 says instruction that fits the above example.

... they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for MY name's sake. And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:  For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. 

And ye shall be hated of all men for MY name's sake.


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There was a great deal of persecution toward me from church goers at that time. (early 80’s)

My best friend withdrew from me. All my own staff left me except for one person. Radio stations began putting me off the air. Hate mail poured in from the radio audiences who had once “loved” me.

I continued speaking what I felt I had been given by God, holding back nothing.

Around 1981, I had a very serious dream. There was an established piece of land. All of a sudden one piece of that land broke off and slid away … then another went … then another … then another. It was terrible to see. Then I heard the following words, “It will be all right through January but in February it will break loose.”

I was very frightened over what was coming. I warned the church on the radio stations which remained.

February came and went and nothing happened.

I was labeled as “a false prophet” and greatly persecuted by the church.

Everything around me grew smaller and smaller as masses of people withdrew from me.


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One night during this time, I had the following dream: Someone fired a shotgun directly into my chest. I was covered with holes. God sent what I thought to be an angel to help me. The angel rubbed a wonderful, salve into the holes in my body area. It felt so good and I was awakened healed.



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Here is what the apostle Peter said to do in such times … I Peter 4

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 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.

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 (THE WORD) is evil spoken of, but on your part HE is glorified.

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. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

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?  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

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.


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A handful of people continued with me from around the United States. I delivered exhortations to them by cassette tape and writings sent by US mail.

Most of those ministers I had tried to warn grew bigger and bigger as I grew smaller and smaller.

It was a very hard time for me.

I continued through the years, speaking as I felt God led.

Each February, I wondered ... would the breaking away come “this year”.

(When I had the dream of the breaking away, I didn’t hear the year this would happen. I just assumed it would happen that year, February 1982, but it didn’t, so I kept looking for it to happen for I knew it was God showing me this breaking away would happen.)

This went on from 1982 through 2015. I held a fearful watch during the month of February.


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In 2015, God revealed truth to me. By this time I had become very grateful to God that I was not one of the big-time ministers with all that pressure to pay for radio/TV and all the church meetings required to hold on to “greatness”. I saw I had been delivered, by God, from a terrible burden.

Then God opened my eyes to see:

The breaking away I saw in the February vision of l982 was a breaking away of church people from me.

I laughed … for the vision did come to pass in 1982, and I was spared greatness on this earth!


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I’m glad I’m not traveling all over the world bodily.

God arranged for me to travel all over the world by telling me in a dream to start a blog: Jesus Ministries Exhortations which we have been sending out from our little church group since March, 2012.

The first day the blog writings appeared on Internet, one of our people came and was excited, saying, “We had 2 page views from Germany.” It never even occurred to any of us that the blog went all over the world …

World Wide Web

Since that time, we have delivered daily exhortations without ceasing.

Hebrews 3 … But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; While it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

Hebrews 10 …but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

I Cor. 15 …Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.



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It costs us nothing to operate the blog. There is no pressure at all to pay for the “ministry.” There is no physical pressure from traveling all over. I just sit at home and type these messages daily on Internet and they go out instantly all over the world. And I am free to present messages that I believe are from the Spirit of God for that specific point in time.

I consider I am blessed above all on this present earth.

Now in the end of my life on this earth, I get to write books on Amazon telling of what God has done and my life in Christ so that others called by God can be exhorted in the ways of God.


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At the time I started on radio, I lived in Dallas and was attending Word of Faith, Robert Tilton’s church. Bob came to me and told me I needed to get with Michael Ellison Advertising Agency, that they could “do me a lot of good.”

Many of the big-time ministers were clients of this advertising agency: At that time, Kenneth Copeland, Marilyn Hickey, Robert Tilton … Swaggart had been a client … This agency did many things to promote the ministers.

It was like Hollywood! But in ministry …

(When my agent came to meet with me in Dallas, he came for me in a chauffer driven limousine!  I didn't even know the proper way to get into the car.)


The agent told me they would contact pastors in the cities before I had meetings and seek the support of those pastors and ask them to get their church members to attend my meeting. Then someone from the agency would go into the city about a week before my meeting and do more promotion in the churches to get attendance.

(The agency never did this for me for they threw me out before it got to that point.)

The agent said the only thing I had to do is be sure not to say anything offensive to any of the people in the city!

That, of course, was impossible!

Lk.6 ... Jesus said … Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.  Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger.

Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.



*****

I was only with the agency about 3 or 4 months before they came to me and said they had decided to eliminate some of their clients and “unfortunately”, they said, I was one they had to remove from their client list.

I was devastated. I thought I had failed.

Then God gave me the following scripture to show me what had happened.

Mt. 4 …Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

God had set it up so I could not obey the agency … God had given me several instructions and the agency came wanting me to do the exact opposite to that which God had taught me.

Of course, the agency had to get rid of me because I wouldn’t obey them. Of course the agency could get hundreds and even thousands to attend my meetings if I would do what they said … and never offend anyone.

All I would have to do is stop speaking offensive scriptures such as, Mt. 5:32 … Jesus said … But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

I would never be able to speak of judgment nor of the scriptures concerning homosexuals/lesbians.

Romans 1 …

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

When the Catholic pope announced that he didn’t see anything against homosexuals.

I cried out … “What about the Bible?”


*****

Before the ad agency eliminated me, the agent assigned to me came to Dallas to meet with me. One of my best friends from the ministry joined us in the meeting in my apartment.

The agent said to me …

“Joan … just one thing … We want you to print on each of your envelopes, ‘SEND ME YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS.’

I SHOCKED both the agent and my friend by saying strongly … “I don’t want to do that!

The agent said, “You don’t?”

“NO,” I replied. “They should pray directly to God themselves, through Jesus Christ, not through me! I don’t want them sending their prayer request to me.”

After a few moments of silence, the agent responded, “You’re missing a good bet … When they send their prayer requests, they will usually put some money into the envelop.”

I didn’t do this, ever.


*****

Then at one point, the agency told me I could not send anything to anyone in writing without first sending the written material to them to edit.

Of course, I refused.

After that, the agency eliminated me.

I was devastated, thinking I had failed. I knew I was enroute to being one of the big time ministers. I knew this agency could promote me to big-time as they had promoted their other clients to big-time. I had failed. So I thought.

After God showed me Mt. 4, I realized what had happened to me is the same things described in this passage.

Again, the devil taketh HIM (Jesus) up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth HIM all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto HIM, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and HIM only shalt thou serve.



*****

I saw the truth about the years of trial. I had been tested. I had not failed. I continued in faith toward God and toward HIS support of me in very difficult times. I did not forsake the Word of God nor that which God has shown me even though HIS Word cost me everything in this present world.

At one time Marilyn Hickey (who was a client of Ellison) said to me,

“Joan … please pray that Michael Ellison will approve my going on TV.” (Michael Ellison, not God)

After I was removed by Ellison, Billy Graham’s ad agency came to see about signing me as their client.

The agent said to me: “Joan … You don’t realize it but you are a gold mine! You have an earned doctorate … We can market you to all kinds of big industries to do meetings for women.”

There was just one problem with this plan … God had told me, when HE put me in the ministry, not to present myself exclusively to women’s groups. I was to speak to everyone. I carried HIS Word. I was never to limit myself to women … the Word of God, the messages of God were for all … male and female.


*****

It was very hard for several years. But God did not forsake me and I never knowingly compromised the scripture though I ended up losing everything … reputation, fame, money, glory of man … and our flesh very much wants all this!

Now, like the prophet Job, I find my latter years are better than the former. (Job. 42)

I have no debt. I have no need. I have no want. Avenues are open to me to share the Word given me by God through the entire world at no cost to me nor to the ministry. And I don’t even have to leave my house to share these exhortations of God all over the world. A way is made for me to do the word of God, exhorting one another daily … all over the world through our blog, and now by these books.

The apostle Paul said …

II Cor. 4 … But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;  Persecuted, but not forsaken (by God); cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake (for The Word’s sake), that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

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* Psalm 60


O God, THOU hast cast us off,  THOU hast scattered us, THOU hast been displeased;

O turn THYSELF to us again. 

THOU hast made the earth to tremble;  THOU hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. THOU hast shewed thy people hard things: THOU hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
 

THOU hast given a banner to them that fear THEE,  that it may be displayed because of the truth.
 

That THY beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
 

God hath spoken in HIS holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. Gilead is MINE, and Manasseh is MINE; Ephraim also is the strength of MINE head; Judah is MY lawgiver; Moab is MY washpot; over Edom will I cast out MY shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of ME.
*****

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Wilt not THOU, O God, which hadst cast us off?
and THOU, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
 

Give us help from trouble:
for vain is the help of man.
 

Through God we shall do valiantly:
for HE it is that shall tread down our enemies.
 

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Volume 5 ... #13
Trust in God more than you trust in yourself

 
Someone coming to see you and you want to be sure to tell that person such & such?

This is trusting in yourself to think you know what to say.

Instead, we must trust in God to bring to our minds what to say at the instant we are in conversation with that person.

What God brings to our mind by the Holy Spirit will do the work of God which will not return void but will accomplish that which God wants done.

Rest in God.

When I am going to doctor's appointment or know I am going to see someone I know, I pray, asking God to have me speak that which HE wants spoken.  Then I speak as the subject arises when I am with the other person.

I think this is what the apostle Paul meant when he said to Timothy:  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. II Tim. 4:2

Friday, April 28, 2017

Hebrews 3 ... Reading through the Bible

1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 

2 Who was faithful to HIM that appointed HIM, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. 

3 For THIS MAN was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some man; but HE that built all things is God. (The Word)

5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 6 But Christ as a son over HIS own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
 

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted ME, proved ME, and saw MY works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known MY ways. 11 So I sware in MY wrath, They shall not enter into MY rest.)
 

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 

14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 

15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.  

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 

17 But with whom was HE grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware HE that they should not enter into HIS rest, but to them that believed not? 

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Guaranteed Success In All That You Do


Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

David once said:

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Psalm 37:25

God is faithful to fulfill everything HE says to us.

Moses died and God said the following to Joshua …

Joshua 1 … Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

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.

This 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.

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.



*****

God gave Joshua an assignment. Joshua was to replace Moses in leading the children of Israel into the promised land.

The assignment given Joshua differs from our assignments, but the way to achieve success is the same for us as it was for Joshua.

The strength and power of God comes from the word you receive from God by the Holy Spirit.  By the Holy Spirit bringing scripture and thoughts to our mind, we know what will work for us on this present earth because the Holy Spirit shows us the will of God in the matter at hand.



*****

A woman who lives across street from me became very angry with me.  I tried to apologize and she would have no part of my apology.  I tried to reason with her and she slammed the phone down. 

A few years later, she blamed me again for a very small incident.  It was completely unreasonable.  I was having firewood delivered and at the exact time the delivery truck came down the street, she was standing in her driveway waiting for someone to pick her up.  The delivery truck pulled into her driveway thinking she was waiting there for him to show him the place to leave the firewood.  She became so angry when she realized the firewood was for me. 

I prayed, "What to do?"

I was writing her a note to say how sorry I was for this troubling, when God brought to my mind a scripture by the Holy Spirit and then I knew what to do.

This is what was brought to my mind:

"If the blind lead the blind they both fall into the ditch ... Leave her alone ..."

I tore up the note I was writing and left her alone ... that was several years ago.

Later I was reading Romans 1.  The word "implacable" stood out to me.  I stopped and looked that word up in dictionary to see what it meant.  As I was looking up this word, the memory of the trouble with this woman was brought to my mind. 

(This is the Holy Spirit doing all these things ... getting my attention on that word in Romans ... getting me to look up the meaning ... reminding me of this woman.)

Implacable:  opposed to someone in a very angry or determined way that cannot be changed.

Romans 1 ... And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

This woman religiously attends a Methodist church and certainly should know better than to act this way.


*****


I have been very strongly trained by God and exercised in recognizing the thoughts brought by the Holy Spirit showing the will of God in the matter at hand ... and I clearly recognized the operation of the Holy Spirit showing me what God wanted me to do concerning this woman.

All that matters in any issue is:  What does God want me to do?

I Cor. 2 ... the Holy Spirit searches the heart of God to reveal the will of God to us.

Jn. 14:26 ... the Holy Spirit teaches us all things and reminds us of everything Jesus has said to us in scripture and in dreams

Jn. 16:13 ... the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth ... and shows us things to come

Those are incredibly strong advantages for us in this present life.

The Holy Spirit does not force us to do anything so we have to be able to recognize HIM when HE brings these things to our minds.

In this example, notice what happened:

1. HE got my attention focused on the word "implacable" as I read Romans 1 ... It was my job to stop reading and look closely at that word that stood out to me.  I know not to race past scripture when something stands out to me when I am reading Bible.

2. It was up to me to look up that word and see what it meant.  Take time with such ... don't go past it ... look into it ... dig for buried treasure from God ... something is there when Holy Spirit gets your attention.

I had no idea at this point where this was taking me.

3.  As I looked at this word in dictionary, Holy Spirit reminded me of this woman and what she had done.

This is the way the Holy Spirit works in guiding us into all truth, but we have to cooperate.



*****

Another important foundation for the path to success from God in all that we do in this life is the following:

Psalm 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. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in HIS law doth he meditate day and night. 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.

We cannot seek our counsel from the ungodly.

We cannot stand in the way of sinners, the "way", the plans set forth by sinners or traditional ways of worldly human wisdom.

We cannot continue to visit with the scornful.

To do any of the above puts us in the path of destruction.

Scornful:

- one who shows contempt toward a person he considers to be despicable or unworthy

- looking down on someone and complaining about such in a derogatory way

- one who shows strong displeasure against another person while considering self to be more noble, worthy, righteous than that other person

- one who speaks of another person in a disrespectful way, making fun of that person such as saying, "Can you believe he would have said that?"

You must remove yourself from scornful people.

We bring blessings or curses upon ourselves by that which we choose to do.  So it is very important not to continue with ungodly, sinners, or scornful individuals.




*****

The second part of Psalm 1, is to meditate in the word of God day and night.

As we keep that word before us, we gain strength to do that word.

Several years ago, God said to me: 

"One step at a time ... one step at a time ... It is enough."

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* Psalm 59


Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

THOU therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.


*****

They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

But THOU, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; THOU shalt have all the heathen in derision.


*****

Because of his strength will I wait upon THEE: for God is my defence.

The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by THY power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth.

And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.


*****

But I will sing of THY power; yea, I will sing aloud of THY mercy in the morning: for THOU hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Unto THEE, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence,
and the God of my mercy.

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Volume 5 ... #12
If we walk in the light

 
I Jn. 1 ... 5 This then is the message which we have heard of HIM, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in HIM is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with HIM, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ HIS Son cleanseth us from all sin.

The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin if we walk in the light.

If we lie to make ourselves seem better to other humans, we walk in darkness.  For in God there is no darkness at all.

The devil is a liar and the father of lies.  If we walk in lies, we show ourselves to be children of the devil, serving the devil.

Hypocrisy is "play acting."  Letting the truth go and pretending something we are not.  Darkness.

If we allow hatred into our hearts, we walk in darkness.  If we take the offensive matter to God and ask HIM to clean our hearts and choose to give up the hatred, then we walk in light and show ourselves to serve God and not our own flesh for hatred is the way of the flesh.

We must choose to give up lies, hatred and all things that cause us to serve devils and our flesh.


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Col. 3 ...  1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with HIM in glory.
 

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
 

8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 

9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of HIM that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
 

12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 

14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 

15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.


*****

Jesus exhorts us to BE READY for HIS return.

Mt. 24 ...   42 Watch therefore:for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

 45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. 

48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites:there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


*****

We must not drift off course.

Let us make a practice of daily exercising ourselves unto godliness... holding fast in the faith, in doing and believing what God has said.  Reading Bible daily ... surrounding our minds with Word of God ... Checking to see that we are doing the Word of God ... disciplining ourselves and encouraging ourselves by reading godly exhortations.

It is so interesting to note that multiple passages of scripture refer to the day of the Lord as being like a "thief" coming in the night.  Jesus spoke this in Mt. 24.  Paul spoke this to the church in I Thess. 5.

I Thess. 5 ...  1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 

4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with HIM.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.



*****

Walk in the light continually ... Keep yourself ready ...

II Peter 3 ...  11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Hebrews 2 ... Reading through the Bible

1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 

2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard HIM; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to HIS own will?
 

5 For unto the angels hath HE not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. 6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest HIM? 7 Thou madest HIM a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst HIM with glory and honour, and didst set HIM over the works of THY hands:

8 THOU hast put all things in subjection under HIS feet. For in that HE put all in subjection under HIM, HE left nothing that is not put under HIM. But now we see not yet all things put under HIM. 

9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that HE by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
 

10 For it became HIM, for WHOM are all things, and by WHOM are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make THE CAPTAIN of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 

11 For both HE that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause HE is not ashamed to call them brethren, 

12 Saying, I will declare THY name unto MY brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto THEE. 13 And again, I will put MY trust in HIM. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given ME.
 

14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, HE also HIMSELF likewise took part of the same; that through death HE might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil

15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 

16 For verily HE took not on HIM the nature of angels; but HE took on HIM the seed of Abraham. 

17 Wherefore in all things it behoved HIM to be made like unto HIS brethren, that HE might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 

18 For in that HE HIMSELF hath suffered being tempted, HE is able to succour them that are tempted.

Succor: 
   - Provide assistance and support in times of hardship and distress; give aid to; run to the help of

The Churches in the Last Days


Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

Here is what Paul said we would see in the last days in the church:

II Thess 2 ...

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first (They would fall away from the scriptures and set up another doctrine to please themselves and to exalt themselves.), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.


*****

A woman named Lilly McBride was in the Faith Movement. 

One day I was speaking with her by phone.  I asked her to take II Thess. 2 and read it aloud.

When she reached verse 11 ... "and for this cause GOD  shall send them strong delusion." she was very shocked to think God would do this for they were being taught all "good" is from God and all "bad" is from the devil.


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II Thess. 2 ... Antichrist was going to act as God as he sat "in the temple of God, showing himself to be God.  (Antichrist comes through the churches ... apostate churches where scripture is altered.)

Antichrist is a spirit that operates in many people just as the devil is not one man but a spirit in many men. 

That spirit was already working in people in the day of Paul and John.

John says the following about antichrist …

I John 2 … 18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

These antichrist people will leave the real people of God but they will go to churches where false doctrines are established to please humans and they will stay with churches that fall away from scripture.

This, I see when pastors and others make up things that are not in the Bible and set up doctrines of men which are not true and not by the Bible and not by the Spirit of God.

Notice that not only will they end up being destroyed but all those who refuse the truth and continue in unrighteousness will be "damned".  II Thess. 2

You cannot sit there among them in churches when you see scripture being eliminated in part, and omitted, and changed.



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The poison gas dream

In 1979, God gave me a dream which was very shocking. I believe this dream shows what was going on in churches then and is happening today, though it is even worse today in church groups as they move toward "one church" of this world.

In this dream:  Destruction was everywhere.

A meeting was going on. There was one vacant chair on the aisle. I went into the room and sat down and began listening to the man who was speaking to the group. Then another man came in and rushed up to the platform and said ... "Wait ... stop ... can't you see? It's too late. It's already begun." (The first man resumed speaking)

I looked out the window to see what was happening. I was shocked!

There was a tall, yellow civil defense type speaker on top of a tall pole. It was supposed to warn the people. But out of our own speaker was coming a gas that would poison us and kill us.

I looked at the man sitting next to me. This man was sitting upright and seemed to be paying attention to the speaker. His eyes were open and he had a smile on his face but this man was a corpse, he was dead.

I looked around the room at the other people and they were all dead, though they looked alive.

And as I sat there among them, I began to fall asleep and I knew that I was being gassed to death also as I sat among them and it would kill me if I remained there.

This is what happens in the churches today when the preachers preach a type of "I'm okay, you're okay”, gospel without warning the congregation.

Or when pastors take scripture and twist scripture thereby eliminating the rules for the church. The people fall asleep, die, and lawlessness moves into the church ... the man of lawlessness who is the antichrist pastor.

The speakers who should be warning the church are often killing the church.


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For several years, I sat in church group where preacher taught that all good is from God and all bad is from devil, and he taught we, as believers, have power over the devil.

The problem was everyone assumed that we (of ourselves) could tell the difference between good and evil.

This is a problem Eve faced ...

Gen. 3 ... Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. (Notice Eve added "neither shall ye touch it".)

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.


God showed me the truth with the following example: We would have called an earthquake bad for it destroys property and often kills humans. Therefore we would say earthquakes are from the devil. But the following scripture concerns an earthquake and this earthquake was from God.

Mt. 27 ... Jesus, when HE had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after HIS resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

By this, God showed me that we, humans, don't always know the difference between good and evil.

Another problem, weather events, such as hail storms are very destructive. Roofs of houses are destroyed. Crops are destroyed. Animals and even humans can be killed by hail.

Yet hail is from God... as is thunder, lightning, rain, snow, sleet, wind, tornadoes.

Also when God chooses to send a judgment, that is of God. It can seem evil to us.

The children of God at Jerusalem sinned greatly against God many times, though God, in His mercy, sent them prophets to warn them against their sins and to tell them to turn from those sins. They would not hear but continued in sin.

God sent the king of Babylon to destroy Jerusalem and to kill and take captive the people and to carry those persons who remained into captivity in Babylon. God put a sentence of 70 years captivity on the people.

Ezra 5:12 ...But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, HE gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

And the Babylonians destroyed the wall around Jerusalem ... they burned the temple ... they burned the houses of many of the noble people of Jerusalem.


It was all ordained by God and set in motion by God. God even chose the king of Babylon to do this destruction against Jerusalem and against the people.

And in the book of Revelation we read …

Revelation 16 … 4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.


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In the church I attended in the early 80's, a faith movement church, they would have said this destruction was from the devil. They said we were to "take authority" over the devil and forbid the devil from touching our property.

During that time, a tornado struck one of the southern cities of USA. I wondered why those great men of faith in the faith movement didn't take authority over the tornado and stop it from striking.

They didn't because they couldn't.

Their doctrine was false.

Psalm 148:8 ... Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling HIS word:

Psalm 147:18 ... HE sendeth out HIS word, and melteth them: HE causeth HIS wind to blow, and the waters flow.


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And God says ...

Isaiah 45:7 ... I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.