Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
My own cousin, a Church of Christ member, did all she could do to get me to quit exhorting the church.
But I told her if I followed her and did what she said, I would have to deny faith in God, faith in some of the scriptures, and I would have to depart from all that I believe God has shown me for the past 40 years.
To me I would lose everything of God.
I did not follow my cousin.
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The apostle Paul said the following to king Agrippa.
Acts 26
9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
At the time Paul spoke this, he had been held in prison because the Jews did not approve of that which Paul spoke.
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My mother once told me of this dream she had about me.
In the dream, I came to visit her. I was driving a large, white RV. I kept circling the vehicle, guarding it, protecting it.
I knew that vehicle was the ministry to which I have been placed by Jesus.
Ephesians 4
8 When HE (Jesus) ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men...
11 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
We, who are of God, do all we have to do to protect that "heavenly vision" given to us by God, protecting that Word.
If anything is harmful to the calling of God, we walk away from that harmful thing to protect the Word of God.
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