Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
My cleaning woman shocked me in November 2017, by asking me "who" ruled over me and gave me approval to speak what I spoke.
She expected humans to have control over me, this even after I told her of the miracles of God where in 1980 a loud trumpet-like voice awoke me in the night with the words, "Hartford, Seattle, KJWS", putting me on radio.
She asked this even after I had told her about being taken into heaven twice after I was born again, and merged into the body of Jesus, God and Holy Spirit witnessing.
These great miracles done by God and she wants to know what human rules over what I say.
I Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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Matthew 21:23 And when HE was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto Him as He was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
The religious rulers asked Peter and John the same question:
Acts 4:1-20 And as they (Peter & John) spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes, And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
And when they had set them (Peter & John) in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
(Who gave you the authority to speak this?)
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before you whole.
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
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It never changes that humans desire to trust humans and to be ruled by humans rather than by God.
In preparing me for the ministry to which God called me, HE taught me to read the Bible and not the books written by men about the Bible. I just stayed in the Bible constantly, reading it from beginning to end, the re-reading it again.
If you can't trust God to rule over you, how can you possibly be a minister?
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The persecutions suffered in the Old Testament and by Jesus and by John the Baptist and by Peter, John, and Paul are the same persecutions suffered by us today when we speak the word of God.
While we rejoice that we suffer with HIM that we may be glorified with HIM, there is also a fearful woe to that person who desires man and not God.
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