Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Acts 17:26 (God) hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
The original translation of the NIV says God determines the places where we live and the exact times we will live there.
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God said to Isaac: Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee. Genesis 26:2-3
v. 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
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The instruction given by God to Joseph was just opposite to that given to Isaac.
Matthew 2:13-14 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
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The thing which we do is that which God tells us by HIS Spirit. When God speaks, we take appropriate action to that Word given by God.
When I was 81-years-old, I fell at my house. The ambulance people came to take me to hospital and when they rolled me through the front door of my house, the following information came into my mind: "You'll never see this house again."
I knew that was information from God. I put that house up for-sale and never attempted to return to it again.
I had been living there alone and even before falling I realized this was not going to work for me in the future.
God had another way for me to go at that point in my life. I did not resist and I followed that way as it was made clear to me.
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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.
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We sow in the place where we currently live and when God gives us another instruction and moves us we sow in that land.
We stay or go with the full assurance that God knows that which is best and God places us according to HIS own will and we serve HIM fully whether God causes us to stay or to go.
But when we go, we go with joy and with the peace that it is God instructing us.
Isaiah 55:12-13 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.
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.
I've always found I've moved with joy and peace when God gave me a word.
And I've found that God's yoke is easy and HIS burden is light.
Matthew 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.
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.
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The Egyptians greatly afflicted the nation of Israel and when they began to obey God, then things got worse for them. The Egyptians increased their burdens.
Exodus 4:29-31 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: And Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
But when the Egyptians heard those things God had said, they made things more difficult for the people of Israel.
Exodus 5:1-9 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
At first the things were made worse by the word given by God. But God was going to deliver HIS people from the Egyptians. And by HIS continued word, HE did deliver HIS people.
At first, HIS people rejoiced to be delivered from Pharaoh. Exodus 15
But then, in the wilderness they ran into trouble.
Exodus 16:1-3 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
They seemed to forget the terrible things the Egyptians had done to them by killing their male babies when they gave birth. And they forgot the increased burdens the Egyptians put on them in their work assignments.
Moses called on God and each time Moses called on God in the wilderness, God provided their need.
While they had to fight many enemies and problems as God led them, God made a way for them to overcome and led them on to the place HE prepared for them.
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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.
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Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
When we see a problem we pray over the problem and over the people involved in the issue.
If God continues to harden the heart of the people in the problem, God might be planning to move us.
Wait until you are certain you have God's way.
Eventually all these things we can see with our natural eye will be destroyed by God in HIS wrath. But God has a way for us to escape or endure.
I Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
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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.
... 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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