Comments by Joan Boney:
I'm currently 84 years old.
Problems pop up and when I remember to ask God for help and wisdom, HE always brings me the solution.
Here are some examples:
💥 Daily I would try to make myself wash my hair and take a shower. After I awoke and had my breakfast, I would start working on writing the blog or recording Podcast. Or sometimes I would read Bible and renew my own mind to Word of God. Or meditate on scripture. Or pray. Or do some of all of the above. Sometimes I would make a note on my calendar to wash my hair at 3 or 4 pm after I finished all of my daily work. But then when 3 or 4 came, I would often be very tired and would postpone my shower until the next day because I was so tired. One day, this idea came: Take your shower before you begin your work, before you get tired. A very simple, but effective solution for me from God.
💥 Medical problem: I have allergies which attack my eyes from time to time and cause extreme itching. I had tried over counter medicines and various prescriptions from basic medical care nurse and from regular eye specialist, with minor success. One day, I took some Nyquil and found this helped the problem more than anything else. I reported what I was doing to my eye doctor and he was amazed that this helped so much. But it did, so I kept taking a small dose each night when I went to bed. Throughout the next day I found the allergy did not attack me in my eyes when I did this. But I also take a regular Ambien pill at night to help with sleep. I didn't know exactly what to do about when to take which medicine. I remembered to pray! When I prayed, I was surprised, for I was led to reverse the order of the two medicines and take them about 2 hours apart when I went to bed. So I began taking a small dose of the liquid Nyquil first before the sleeping pill. There has been no side effect and the allergy has continued to be controlled. God also showed me to take a slightly different type of Ambien.
💥 Pam Padgett's older cat died. (I live in Pam's home.) We were both grieved when Patches died. I knew Pam was especially grieved. I prayed and I heard this from God: "She can always get a new kitten." When Pam came downstairs that day, I told her what I heard from God and Pam burst out laughing and her grief over Patches vanished. A few weeks later, we went to pick up the new kitten. A young child was holding one kitten and Pam brought the other kitten out to the car. I said to Pam, "Have you thought about taking both kittens?" Pam was even happier with this idea. We have been greatly entertained for the past seven months watching those 2 kittens grow up and play together!
💥 2018: I fell at my house in Texas where I lived alone. During the months prior to this fall, I had begun to feel the time was coming that I would not be able to continue to live alone. I was 81 years old at that time.
With this fall, I had a very badly broken left wrist and a broken hip.
As the ambulance workers rolled me past the front door of my house to take me to hospital, I heard the following from God: "You'll never see this house again." So while I was in the hospital, I put the house up for-sale.
After surgery, they sent me to rehabilitation hospitals where I spent the next 2 1/2 months.
I didn't know "where" I would be going but I knew God would work it out.
(I really didn't know if I would continue to live and I didn't ask God if I would live but I was sure God would have something planned for me one way or another.)
Before surgery, a nurse came into my room. She said I had to sign a form putting someone in charge if I could not make medical decisions for myself. We had one church member living in Lubbock, Texas, where I lived and she happened to be in my hospital room at the time the nurse came to get me to sign these papers. I'm sure she expected me to put her in charge. Without any thought at all I said to the nurse: "Pam Padgett is in charge." Sandra was very shocked. She replied: "How can Pam be in charge? She doesn't even live here. She is 400-miles away." I replied, "I don't know how she can be, but she is."
Pam ended up flying 3 or 4 times from Denver to Lubbock, Texas, during the 2 1/2 months I was in hospital.
(At the exact same time that I was in the hospital, Pam Padgett, in Colorado, was finishing remodeling of her house, changing one of the downstairs rooms into a bedroom and changing the downstairs bath into a full bath. This was completed in mid-January 2019. I moved to that room on February, 24, 2019.)
One of Pam's neighbors was really impressed by this. It was obviously some kind of "supernatural" working planned by God! The neighbor, a Catholic, was very aware of this being done by God.
Isaiah 45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
John 10:4 Jesus says: And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
(Pam has done all the technical work for the ministry since 2012 when I was shown in a dream to start a blog. I have had an experience for several years watching the way Pam makes decisions. I know she prays over what she does. She hears from God. She follows what God shows her to do. She is exactly the kind of person I would want making decisions if I were unable to make decisions for myself.)
💥 I have many experiences in following God, and even before I was born again, I now realize God was leading me and taking care of me, training me for HIS own purpose.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to HIS purpose.
I'm sure God does this for all who are born again.
You may not realize God is going before you and making everything right for you according to that which is HIS OWN Purpose. I didn't realize until recently that God had caused all these things to work according to HIS purpose for me from the time I was born on this earth, but now I know that. And I know as long as God leaves me on this earth HE will do that.
And God will do that for you also when you belong to HIM.
It is helpful for us to know that.
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