That which will end the apostasy in today's churches

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

How will the apostasy in today's churches be stopped?

The following scripture tells us:

II Thessalonians 2  NASB  Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

Until Jesus returns the apostasy in the churches will continue.

We cannot turn them back to the scripture from which they "fell away".

The reason we cannot turn them is in the following scripture.

II Thessalonians 2:10-13   KJV  

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.

Those church groups are ordained by God for destruction.

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We see the fact they did not love the truth of the scriptures.

Therefore they fell away from scriptures and set up another doctrine and the church group approved the other doctrine.

Therefore God turned them over to a strong delusion.

When the delusion is from God there is nothing we can do about this.

They will live in the delusion from now until the day Jesus returns.

Paul says they will all be damned  who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  II Thessalonians 2   KJV

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When we see this, all we can do is to walk away and avoid them.

Our commission from God is to keep ourselves in peace, without spot and blameless.  II Peter 3

Each of us have to deal properly with ourselves through prayer and through correction from God, continuing in the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.  II Timothy 3:15

II Peter 3:15    Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,

Knowing HE is our hope ... looking for the redemption of our bodies ...

All that we can see with our natural eye will be destroyed.

But the Word of the Lord endures forever.

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* Instruction in Righteousness: Romans 3

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

² Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

³ For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

⁴ God forbid:

yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

(Agree with God that you may overcome.)

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

⁶ God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

⁷ For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto His glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
⁸ And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

⁹ What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

¹⁰ As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: ¹¹ There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. ¹² They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. ¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: ¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: ¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood: ¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways: ¹⁷ And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

²⁰ Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴ Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶ To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of Him which believeth in Jesus.

²⁷ Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

²⁸ Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

(When we belong to God and HE reveals HIMSELF to us, we are changed.  Our faith is in HIM, but also we no longer want to sin as we once did.  We fulfill the law now through our love of the Word and the fact that we no longer want to sin.  But our faith is in HIM and not in our works.)

²⁹ Is He the God of the Jews only? is He not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

³⁰ Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

³¹ Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

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Examples of the Working of the Holy Spirit

Every time I think of the following wonderful example of the working of the Holy Spirit I laugh.

When my mother was still living I would go get our food at the same place daily. It cost $5.30. I would take out the five-dollar-bill and a quarter and nickel and leave my purse in car with my mother.

One day I could not find a quarter and nickel in my purse. As I was searching through the change, I clearly heard (in form of thought), "Three dimes will work ..." I began laughing for I had plenty of dimes in purse!

Sometimes the way is blocked to us through habit and God will help us out showing us another way to go!

Another example:

I had a commode that was hard to flush. Each time I tried to flush it I had to hold the handle down for several seconds. It had become more and more annoying to me.

I went into bath and it seemed it was taking even longer than usual to flush commode. I was mumbling, fussing at commode.

Then I heard: "Would you rather have an out-house?"

"NO!" ... I shouted!

The next day I called plumber.

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I receive several invitations to go to various parts of the world and speak to ministers and to church groups (always at my own expense).

But I believe God has shown me not to travel, although I travel daily all over the world by the Internet writings we do daily on blog (Jesus Ministries Exhorations) and by e-books (published by Amazon).

One invitation was especially appealing to me. I really wanted to go speak to these ministers. But what does God want me to do? I turned strongly to God in prayer. I asked HIM to give me something that would strongly anchor me in what HE wanted me to do about this subject. I just didn't feel I had a strong anchor to really hold me firmly in place.

Almost immediately I heard the following words: "Remember the cat ..." I said, "Oh, yeah ... the cat!" (I have a Siamese cat.)

I laughed! I was expecting a more lofty anchor ... I was expecting God to give me a scripture to show me what to do ... But the cat is a very real anchor!

I knew God was confirming to me that I was to stay home and do what I had been doing ... read the Bible and exhort the church daily through writings! My flesh was kept in place, in the real will of God, by the Holy Spirit after I committed the subject to God in prayer.

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In the 70's, I owned a business in Dallas, TX (USA). A man called me from Houston, TX (USA) and wanted to come talk to me about running a business, because his wife had just started the same kind of business, American Indian Arts.

I begged this man not to come to see me, telling him I know nothing at all about business. But he said I was the person recommended to him by others and he wanted to talk with me about marketing. He was graduate of Harvard University Business School. I was horrified at the idea of having to talk with him. But he insisted.

The first thing he asked was about my marketing plan.

I was praying constantly as I spoke with him.

I replied: "Well ... you see ... I am a Christian ... So before I go out to buy the art objects I pray asking God to have the Indians make the objects. Then when I get to the reservations I pray, asking God to show me the objects to buy. Then when I return home, I pray, asking God to send out the angels to get the customers to come in and purchase the items, and everything sells."

There was a long pause. Then he said, "Well ... that's a form of marketing." (No further questions and he left.)

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To me, after I was born again, everything was dependent upon God. And it still is!

I get frightened and even panicked but God always settles me by HIS Spirit and puts me on the way HE wants me to go. All is done by HIS Spirit.

When I was new Christian, a man sued me for a million-dollars. It was so silly to me because I probably had only $2000 to $3000 dollars at the time. Finally I realized judgment would come against me unless I responded to this legal suit and I could end up losing my business. So I hired a lawyer.

But as months continued on, all the profit from sale of merchandise in my business was going to pay legal fees.

Finally, I knew I had to put a stop to this.

I had prayed many times and a scripture was brought to my attention (Holy Spirit).

Isaiah 54:17 ... No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

I told lawyer this lawsuit was a weapon against me and if the Bible is true it would not prosper since I am a Christian. So I had decided to dismiss his law firm and go to court without human legal counsel.

Lawyer was so shocked.

He said, "Joan ... you can't do this. You don't realize how evil these courts are. It will only take another $10,000 to try your case."

At that point I was shocked and replied,

"$10,000 more ... Stop Gordon ... don't do anything else."

I dismissed the attorney.

About a week later, Gordon called me and told me they had decided to try my case without further charge to me. But what is going on? One week it was going to cost me $10,000 more and the next week it was going to be free?

What is going on here?

I told Gordon I would have to see.

I prayed, and God (by HIS Spirit) reminded me of following scripture ...

Gen. 14:21-23 ... And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

By this I knew God was telling me to turn down the "free" legal service, so I did that.

Several months past as we awaited trial.

Then six days before the trial the man dropped all charges against everyone. He had been suing several people and his lawyer who called me to tell me of the dropping of charges said this man "cut everyone loose”. It was over. But it was terrifying. And it went on for several months.

During that time, God would remind me of scripture to help me (again it was the Holy Spirit bringing these scriptures to my attention). I recorded the scriptures on cassette tape and played the tape each night. I would fall asleep to the scriptures and when I awoke during the night I would start the recorder again. This helped sustain me during the months of torment and fear.

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It helps so much to understand that this present earth will never be righteous.

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

Often when we are young, we go about thinking everything can be made right.

When this is the case, we strive greatly to make this world righteous, to make this present world a better place.

When we understand this present world will never  be righteous, we enter into a special peace  with God, knowing truth ... that righteous world we desire is "the new heaven and the new earth" that God will create to come after this present heaven and earth is destroyed by the wrath of God that is coming upon all the world.

The apostle Peter explains:

II Peter 3:10-14    But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

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?

Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

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

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When we understand our kingdom is not of this world, as Jesus said HIS kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36) ... when we understand all we can see with our natural eye will be destroyed by God and will be replaced by that "new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness" ... then, hopefully, we can stop striving over this present earth and go forward dealing with ourselves, keeping ourselves in the love of God as we wait for that new heaven and new earth.

For we live at the end time.  

The apostasy is in the church groups, where they fall away from specific scripture and set up another doctrine to replace the doctrine of Christ. 

We are on the threshold of the return of Jesus whereby HE raises the dead and changes the bodies of those who are still living on this earth and are waiting for Him.

Our hope and view is so different from that of the previous decades of the church.

Abraham had the promises of the creation of a people who would outnumber the stars in heaven.

For decades this people developed as the chosen people of God.

The prophets spoke of the coming Messiah and they greatly looked forward to that.

Jesus came and was crucified and the New Testament Church based on the New Covenants of God came forth.

The apostles had their goal in the establishment of all the doctrines of Christ in the NT church and of turning people to Jesus and this new way of God, faith in God through Jesus.

Decades passed with the remnant of God continuing through all the generations.

Then we began to see churches eliminate various doctrines from the Bible and for many decades the ordained apostasy came into the churches.

Now we await the second coming of Jesus when HE will remove us from this present earth and take us up to that new heaven and new earth which God showed the apostle John and he shared with us in the following scripture.

Revelation 21:1-5  

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.

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We will no longer have these fleshly bodies but we will be changed into our new spiritual bodies.

Then we will be as the angels.

Do you ever wonder how you will be able to worship God through all eternity?

We probably couldn't if we had this flesh that we now have, but we will no longer have this flesh that produces all these human emotions.

Then we will be as the angels, Jesus explains:

Matthew 22:30   For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

Angels do not have the flesh we have.  At the time of the resurrection, we will shed this fleshly body that we now have.  We will have new spiritual bodies for all eternity.  This makes us as the angels.

So to try to understand eternity thinking of our current flesh is impossible.

I Corinthians 15:50-52     Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Don't you see?

This flesh we now live in will disappear and it will happen instantly, in the blink of an eye.

And we will have new spiritual bodies which are not subject to the current corruption of the flesh.

Thus no more emotions that produce sorrow, no more death, no more pain ... for we will not have the flesh that causes these feelings.

We will have new spiritual bodies and thereby be "as the angels".

When God sent Jesus to earth to die for us, Jesus was made "a little lower than the angels," for the suffering of death.  (Hebrews 2:7-9)  In other words, Jesus had to be made in the form of flesh in order to suffer in the flesh, for angels do not have flesh and do not suffer the things the flesh causes us to suffer.

In the new heaven and new earth, we won't suffer these fleshly things either for this flesh as we know it will be gone forever and we will have bodies like the angels who do not have flesh.

Without flesh, we will have pure righteousness!

So we look forward to that ... the redemption of our bodies ... the new spiritual body ... the new Jerusalem wherein dwelleth righteousness ... the new heaven and the new earth where God creates all things new!

In the meantime, we wait in peace without spot and blameless, as Peter told us to do.  II Peter 3

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* Instruction in Righteousness: Romans 2

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

² But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

³ And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

⁵ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

⁶ Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

⁷ To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
⁸ But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
⁹ Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

¹⁰ But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
¹¹ For there is no respect of persons with God.

¹² For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

¹³ (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

¹⁴ For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
¹⁵ Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

¹⁶ In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

¹⁷ Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
¹⁸ And knowest His will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
¹⁹ And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
²⁰ An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

²¹ Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
²² Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

²³ Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
²⁵ For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
²⁶ Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
²⁷ And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

²⁸ For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
²⁹ But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

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Believe Not Every Spirit But Try the Spirits

The Holy Spirit speaks to us in the form of a thought ... but so do other spirits!

I Jn. 4:1 ... Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God.

So we must present ideas to God in prayer and allow HIM to establish our thinking in the various issues. I try the ideas brought to my mind by turning to God in prayer and by waiting on God to persuade me.

God is able to communicate with us and to confirm the direction we are to take on this earth in a way which we can understand.

There is another way to try the spirits which I have done many times.

I Jn. 4:2-3 ...Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

I have often tried the spirit by simply asking that spirit "Do you confess Jesus Christ is come in the flesh" ... and I will hear either yes or no from that spirit in form of thought.

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In the past years, I have so many examples of individuals who started out to do a work they thought was of God only to find they were unable to do that work. Often they came to me thinking I could help them do the work. What I saw is this: The work was not of God. They never believed me and they kept trying to do the work but so far as I know none of them were ever able to do the work.

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One woman who came to me said she was sure God wanted her to start a home Bible class. She bought a house in the neighborhood she could afford and moved in. But she was so afraid of the neighbors she couldn't start the class.

Also she said she thought God wanted her to write a book. She put some things on paper but no one would consider publishing it. She didn't even have enough money to have the pages copied to submit them to publisher and she had no real market for the book.

All this is nonsense.

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At the church I once attended, a young couple said God was sending them to Israel to preach the gospel. He quit his secular job. They set out for Israel. In a week, they had returned to church. They said it was impossible in Israel and they did not speak the language.

Again this is nonsense and terribly harmful.

These are examples of following the wrong spirit.

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Each time God has shown me to do something, the way to do the work has also been shown me.

In January, 1980, what I believe to have been an angel of the Lord, spoke to me in the night while I was sleeping. It was a voice like a trumpet and was so loud I jumped out of bed immediately.

The words spoken were: "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS" 

It seemed clear to me that KWJS would be call letters to either radio or TV station.

(It turned out to be radio station.)

I said to God, "Are YOU telling me to go on radio. I wouldn't know how to do this. I'm a writer not a speaker."

Immediately the gentle thought came, "Call the radio station manager."

(Holy Spirit bringing way to go from God)

First thing that morning I called and spoke with the station manager and he told me to make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to him and if I fit their broadcast format he would offer me a contract.

(That same morning I made an audition recording and mailed it that same day to the radio station.)

I asked the radio station manager how much it costs to be on his station, and he said it was $800 per month for 5 day week/30 min broadcast. I prayed, asking God how I should pay for it.

The thought came to write the people I knew and tell them what happened.

At the time, I knew fewer than 80 people.

But I wrote telling what happened.

I did not ask for money.

I just told them what happened. I had the letter copied and mailed it. Within 24 hrs. more than enough money had arrived to pay for the first month of broadcasts. And I was on the air on radio within a week.

See how important the working of the Holy Spirit is when we believe God has shown us to do something. We do not know the will of God except by the revealing of the Holy Spirit.

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There is a man who came to me thinking I might be able to help him. He had written a book and couldn’t get it published. Someone at his church group prophesied over him that he would be quitting his profession in secular world to devote full attention to his book and to lectures. I was horrified!

His wife was very disturbed because she felt he had damaged his reputation with his secular employers by telling them about this book which had to do with US Constitution and Bible.

I did what I could to turn him from this "folly".   But he withdrew from me though he lived across the street from me at the time.

(I learned several years later that he self-published his book.  He sold some books but his wife said it was impossible to interest a publisher in the book since he wasn't a public figure.  I had impression  he had paid for the publishing and books were at his own house. Also the books seemed rather expensive to me with the hardback at approximately $35 and paperback at $25.  It was not available in e-book.  His wife said she would have him bring me an "autographed" copy but he never did do that.)

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Beware of an angel of light ... seems like God but brings harm ...

Paul speaks of this as follows:   II Cor. 11:13-15

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

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It can seem like goodness and light only to be destruction.

And often there is a terrible thing. To quit a disastrous work seems like a lack of faith. But in reality the work itself was not authored by God. This happens a lot.

Jesus said … Mt. 7:21-23

Not every one that saith unto ME, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of MY Father which is in heaven.

Many will say to ME in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in THY name? and in THY name have cast out devils? and in THY name done many wonderful works?

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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Everything must be proven by prayer or by directly trying the spirit that brought the thought.

Also consider the following concerning that wisdom which is from God ...

James 3:17 ... But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

And Jesus explained:  Mt. 11:28-30 ...  Come unto ME, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take MY yoke upon you, and learn of ME; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For MY yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

If the plan is very hard to do and will bring great hardship upon you and your family, you have likely heard from the wrong spirit.

Be very careful about "good" works. Pray. Wait on God to confirm the direction.

Prov. 3:6-7 ... In all thy ways acknowledge HIM (pray), and HE shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes.

Prov. 16:25 ... There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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So many ministers contact me asking me to give them money to help pay for their works.

But there is no such example in the Bible of a minister asking another minister to give him money.

Nor is there any example in Bible of a minister asking a church group to give him money.

And I know many "ministers" are led into good works by other spirits and by ideas of man.

My experience with God is when God authors a work God also provides a way to do the work without begging for money from other ministers or from other people.

David said:

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

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Flesh is a way of death ... to go in the way of the flesh is death for us.

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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The flesh leads us in ways of the flesh, your feelings, your emotions:  adultery, fornication, hatred, debating, arguing, exalting of ourselves above others, drunkenness, ways of various superstitions, defrauding one another

Galatians 5:19-21   Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

To yield to those ways is a way of death.

The Spirit will not lead us to do the above things of the flesh.

The flesh and the Spirit are opposite to one another.

We, who have the Spirit, have another way to go.  But we also have the flesh.  So we have to diligently choose the way of the Spirit and go in that way.

love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance  Galatians 5:22-23

When our flesh flares up, we have to STOP, and pray, asking God to help us, asking God to not let us do that which the flesh is urging us to do.

Every time I've asked God to stop me from doing something which I know to be of my own flesh, HE has stopped me.

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* Instruction in Righteousness: Romans 1

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
² (Which He had promised afore by His prophets in the holy scriptures,)
³ Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
⁴ And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

⁵ By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name:

⁶ Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

⁷ To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

¹⁰ Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

¹¹ For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

¹² That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

¹³ Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

¹⁴ I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

¹⁵ So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁷ For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

(As we go through the various problems of this present life and overcome through HIM, we have the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith)

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

¹⁹ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

²⁰ For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

²¹ Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

(The desire to be seen of others as being wise and to be wise in your own thinking, is deadly.  Our desire should be for all our wisdom to come from God that God be glorified.)

²³ And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

²⁵ Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

²⁶ 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:  ²⁷ 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.

²⁸ 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;

(We see God speaks not just of homosexual and lesbians but God also speaks of many forms of unrighteousness committed by humans.)

²⁹ Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,³⁰ Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,³¹ Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

³² 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.

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What Does The Holy Spirit Do?

Four things the Holy Spirit does in the believer:

- He teaches us all things (Jn. 14:26)
- He brings to our mind everything Jesus has said to us (Jn. 14:26)
- He guides us into all truth (Jn. 16:13)
- He shows us things to come (Jn. 16:13)

The Holy Spirit is great power for HE searches the heart of God to show the believer the will of God in the specific issues of this present life.

I Cor. 2:7-13 ... Paul explained:

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

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Something can seem like a good thing, but is it really the way God wants you to go?

It is the Holy Spirit who searches the heart of God to find out the thinking of God on the matter at hand. So when we think of something that God might want us to do, we pray, asking God about this idea ... then we wait until we are shown by God one way or another.

Satan appears as an "angel of light" (II Cor. 11:14) with good ideas and good works which would keep us busy and cost us a lot of money. So we have to be sure the idea we have is from God.

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