Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
I have noticed lately, a very strong temptation, in dealing with things of this world, to either lie or live in hypocrisy, play acting, not really speaking truth.
When crooked people are around us, there is a temptation to be crooked as they are.
But heed the following:
I Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
There is no temptation that comes to us that is above our ability to withstand through God.
God makes a way of escape for us.
Regardless of the temptation, we can escape if we want to escape.
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I have heard of church going women who have gone to church all their lives but committed adultery when confronted with an attractive man.
I believe we have to first want to escape.
If we are asking God to help us in the temptation, God will not forsake us. The way of escape from the temptation will be there for us. We must take that way of escape.
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Even in small matters, especially in dealing with this world, we have temptations to enter into lies or hypocrisy.
But we know this is not the way of God.
If we choose to do this, we know we are not going in the way of 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.
"without hypocrisy" ... without pretense or play acting
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Insomuch as is possible, we should live honestly before men, even when the rules seem a little strange to us.
And when God calls "the way of escape" to us ... we should take that way of escape, no matter how silly it seems.
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Last week, we were trying to get a handicap placard to use in Pam's card.
To get this hang down card, I needed to prove that I now live in Colorado.
They would accept a Colorado driver's license, which I do not have ... or a passport ... or military ID.
They had mistakenly given me Colorado handicap license plates for my car but when we returned to get the hang down placard, they would not give us this.
I told Pam she could use the handicap license plates they had given me for my old car because I still have Texas handicap license on my car. But the night I told her this, I was reminded of the scripture in James 3:17 which tells us the wisdom from God is "without hypocrisy."
(I told Pam, the next morning, that we'd better not do that plan for it had hypocrisy and would not be the way of God. She quickly agreed!)
Then the idea came to just renew my passport and use the passport to get the hang down placard. My TEXAS placard is valid until the end of June, 2019, so we should have time to get a passport and a Colorado placard before that time, if we act immediately, as we plan to do.
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God has ways of escape for us that we can live in this world in peace in spite of rules of this world.
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.
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