In 2016, I began writing a series of ministry books on various
subjects, which we published on Amazon, in both E-book and paperback. For the next few weeks, we will show an example of the contents in each of these 18 books. You
might find these books helpful in reminding you of godly concepts used
in following God. The E-books are priced at 99-cents each in USA.
Paperback books vary in prices according to the number of pages. Free
E-books are offered daily on selected books through Amazon. At the end
of this writing, you will find a link which takes you directly to Amazon
if you choose to order this book.
Joan Boney
Preface
Before we were born again, we tried to overcome the various problems of this life by wisdom of man, by figuring things out by our own mind … by that which seemed right to us.
After we are born again and have been given the Spirit of God, we have the power to know what is right in the sight of God, for the spirit of God searches the heart of God to show us the will of God. I Cor. 2
Therefore Jesus says:
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Mt. 6:33
The subject of this book and the examples given in this book are examples of overcoming through God, not through our flesh as we once did.
Isaiah 55 … For MY thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways and MY thoughts than your thoughts.
Joan Boney
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Overcoming By The Spirit Is Not Automatic
I was baptized in water when I was 15-years-old.
I was born again by the Spirit of God when I was 37-years-old. Then I had another spirit in me, to lead me and to guide me. Now I could overcome through God. I was a new creature.
II Cor. 5:17 … Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Overcoming through God’s Spirit is not automatic.
We learn to hear God and to pay attention to that small voice speaking in form of a thought, an idea … and then we choose to do that which is in keeping with the instruction given by that “small voice” in us, The Holy Spirit, The Spirit of Truth, The Comforter.
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When I was born again in 1975, the Holy Spirit said to me: “Joan … you know all those mistakes you’ve been making all these years? Those weren’t mistakes. Those were sins.”
SINS? … I was very shocked! I thought they were mistakes.
With that word from God, I was born again immediately by the Spirit of God and was given the Holy Spirit to dwell inside me to lead me and guide me.
But even though I was given the Holy Spirit, I still had to learn to hear which spirit was of God for we have thoughts and ideas coming by our own flesh, thoughts from devils, and thoughts and ideas from God, and often all three speak things to our minds that seem “good”.
Thus the apostle John said:
Thus the apostle John said:
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: I Jn. 4:1
We can pray, asking God to confirm which thought is from the Spirit of God.
We can pray, asking God for wisdom.
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.
We overcome through God … not through our own ideas.
Our flesh is greatly lifted up in pride when we do something based on our own wisdom.
But when we ask God for HIS wisdom and receive HIS direction, how can we take fleshly pride, for the idea was not from ourselves but from God.
Thus we keep our flesh under submission to God by seeking God’s wisdom and by choosing God’s wisdom.
The apostle Paul said …
I Cor. 9 … Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
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Choosing Ideas From God
A man in our little church group was considering building another storage building to store his stuff.
As he thought about doing this, he heard: “Why don’t you just get rid of the stuff.”
This was the Holy Spirit speaking to this man.
This was wisdom 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.
At the time this happened, this man was in his early 70’s. Within a few years, he had a very serious heart operation and became partially paralyzed. It was certainly the wisdom from God by the Spirit of God to get rid of the stuff when he heard from God to do so.
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Overcoming through God … overcoming through the Word given us by the Spirit of God on the issue of this life with which we are currently dealing.
Jesus commissioned each believer to overcome the issues of this present life. And we need to overcome the problems by seeking the way God wants us to deal with such. We pray. We turn to God. We consult God. We wait until we are assured God has shown us the way to go.
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