Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
God called Abraham and separated Abraham to Himself.
We see more concerning this in the section of scripture where Joshua gave "charge" to the rulers of Israel and told them the following:
Joshua 24:2-3 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
(God was going to separate Abraham to Himself and Abraham would serve God, not his father's gods.)
3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
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I was born again in 1975, and I knew I was separated to God.
I no longer wanted to be with anyone other than those people who were of God.
In speaking with two Baptist women, I had told them I no longer wanted to be with those people I had been with before but now I wanted only to be with the church.
Those two women were shocked and responded, "OH, don't do that!"
I think they were saying I could save the people of the world by being with them.
But I knew they would destroy me, and I did not want to be with them, for I was now interested in God and in things of God and I wanted to speak of God and I wanted to be around others who spoke of God.
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In 2019, a woman came to me saying she is a Christian.
As we spoke, she told me of a young man who had completely left the doctrines of his father and mother and their church. He was living as a heathen. Her daughter was trying to bring him back.
I saw an immediate danger and began warning the mother.
But the mother would have no part of my warning. She said, "You don't know my daughter and how strong she is. She would never leave the faith."
But I knew she would, and will.
Do you really think you are so strong that you cannot be negatively affected by them?
Does anyone trouble you? Does anyone grieve you?
We are to go forth in joy and gladness and dwell in constant peace. You cannot do this with persons who trouble you.
It is up to each of us to examine ourselves and to avoid those persons who trouble us for we try to "reason" with them and they will not hear us and they continue to trouble us. Aren't we troubled when they speak to us? Are we always striving with them?
I've been in these situations. Joyfully at this point in time I am not in such. In most cases, they chose to leave me!
While there was some grief at their departure, now I live in peace because they left.
The apostle Peter tells us how we are to live as we wait for the return of Jesus.
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.
They can cause you to strive in their sins. It is dangerous for you.
Jesus warns, concerning the end times:
Matthew 24:12-13 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Iniquity "abounds" in their lives, so you are pulled down in grief over their iniquity.
To free yourself: Just keep speaking that Word given you by God when you are with them and they will flee from you and you will be freed as you cling to that Word given to you by God.
Don't try to hold onto that person who troubles you.
To stabilize yourself in the situation, make your mind focus on that Word which God gave you in the matter.
Isaiah 26:3 THOU wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on THEE: because he trusteth in THEE.
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Do you really think you are so strong that you cannot be negatively affected by them?
Does anyone trouble you? Does anyone grieve you?
We are to go forth in joy and gladness and dwell in constant peace. You cannot do this with persons who trouble you.
It is up to each of us to examine ourselves and to avoid those persons who trouble us for we try to "reason" with them and they will not hear us and they continue to trouble us. Aren't we troubled when they speak to us? Are we always striving with them?
I've been in these situations. Joyfully at this point in time I am not in such. In most cases, they chose to leave me!
While there was some grief at their departure, now I live in peace because they left.
The apostle Peter tells us how we are to live as we wait for the return of Jesus.
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.
They can cause you to strive in their sins. It is dangerous for you.
Jesus warns, concerning the end times:
Matthew 24:12-13 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Iniquity "abounds" in their lives, so you are pulled down in grief over their iniquity.
To free yourself: Just keep speaking that Word given you by God when you are with them and they will flee from you and you will be freed as you cling to that Word given to you by God.
Don't try to hold onto that person who troubles you.
To stabilize yourself in the situation, make your mind focus on that Word which God gave you in the matter.
Isaiah 26:3 THOU wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on THEE: because he trusteth in THEE.
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I once told my mother, "You can go down, but I won't go with you."
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I was very shocked when my dad's 1/2 brother's wife, a Baptist, allowed her granddaughter to come among them. The granddaughter was known to have sex with men who were not her husband and yet the grandmother welcomed the granddaughter to her home and embraced her.
How can this be?
Whether or not they call themselves Christians, if I am confronted with them, I speak truth from God to them.
(The Word of God is valid whether or not the person is of God. It is the same truth from God.)
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When my neighbor came to me and asked to borrow one of my bedrooms for his wife's daughter and her "friend", I asked about this "friend." When he told me the daughter and her "friend" were lesbians, I told him God was against this and I wouldn't approve it.
Romans 1:26-28 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. 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;
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When I learned my cousin's son was dating a divorced woman, I told him, in front of them all, that should he marry this divorced woman, he would commit adultery, according to God.
Matthew 5:32 whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Most of the time, these people are driven out from us and no longer want to be around us when we speak the Word of God to them.
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In reading the book of Judges, God told the tribes of Israel to drive the people out, to make no pact with them, for they would cause them to serve their gods.
But many of the tribes of Israel would not do as God instructed and they made "friendships" and "marriages" with the people of the land and would not drive them out from them.
Judges 1:21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
v. 27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
v. 29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites
v. 29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites
Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
They would not obey God.
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2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed MY voice: why have ye done this?
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
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Sometimes God separates us from them as HE separated Abraham by giving Abraham the word telling him to "depart" from them.
Other times, God drives them away from us, causing them to leave us ... often by giving us a word to speak to them which causes them to depart from us.
But the people of God desire to be with the people of God ... by this we know them.
I John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
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Didn't those people trouble us when they were with us? Weren't they as "thorns" in our sides?
II Corinthians 6:14-18 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be MY sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.
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