Comments by Joan Boney:
I have often examined that which happened to me by this question. Where in the Bible do we see something like that happen?
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I was born again on August 5, 1975, by God speaking the following to my mind:
"Joan ... you know all those mistakes you've been making all these years? Those weren't mistakes. Those were sins."
I was very shocked! I thought those were mistakes. God caused me to be born again with that word. I had been baptized when I was 15 at my aunt's church, Church of Christ. But nothing happened after I was baptized. There was no change. I just went forth by the invitation of the minister and was baptized in water because I didn't want to go to hell and my understanding was this what what was required of me.
When God spoke to me August 5, 1975, I was completely changed by God. Now I wanted to read the Bible. I now wanted to go to church. I wanted to be with Christians. I no longer wanted to be with those people I had been with. I wanted to know about things of God.
2 Corinthians 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.
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My best friend had been raised Baptist. I was at her house and as I walked past her, I casually said: "Oh by the way, Donna, I don't think I've been a Christian until now."
She said: "Joanie ... come back here. What did you just say?"
I replied: "Last night, God spoke to me and now I think I'm born again. Before I thought I was a Christian because I was baptized in water. But this is different now."
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A few nights after I was born again, I was sleeping in the night, when I was transported into heaven. I knew I was with God, with Jesus, and with the Holy Spirit. I saw no images. It was a spiritual experience. At that time, I was merged into the body of Jesus, made one with the Word of God, God and the Holy Spirit witnessing.
A few nights later, the exact same thing happened to me again!
I thought this happened to every Christian. When I found out that it didn't, I began searching for something like this in the Bible.
I found it in the following scripture:
The apostle Paul said:
2 Corinthians 12
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words,
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What Paul described in the Bible is very similar to that which happened to me twice when I was "transported" into heaven.
I consider if I find something in the Bible, God might use something similar with us.
One time the Holy Spirit told me to tell my Church of Christ aunt, my favorite aunt, about being taken into heaven twice. I did tell her. As I spoke to her she had a "dreamy" look on her face. Then she said to me, "Something like that happened to me once, and it was all golden."
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Later the following was prophesied over me by a Christian woman: "I don't know HOW I know this, but God is going to mightily use you. You are going to have to stay very close to HIM."
Later, my pastor said the following from the pulpit one Sunday morning: "Joan Boney is not a teacher. She is a prophetess."
(I had never told anyone at church about God telling me I was called to 2 offices as a minister to the church.)
When pastor said that, the teacher of the singles class said, "That's it! Joan is a prophet." Several times he had started to tell the class that I was a teacher, but he said he had "a check" in his spirit. It was not a teacher, it was a prophetess. (I never told them about being both apostle and prophet.)
An apostle has an anointing by God to deal with church doctrine. God took me to Acts 15 to show me the work of a New Testament apostle and the work I would be doing in the office.
A NT prophet carries messages from God to the church, often corrections. (Ezekiel 3 is one place God used to teach me how to do the work of a NT prophet. God also took me to each chapter in Acts and to all the chapters showing the Old Testament prophets to show me what prophets in NT do.)
God taught me from Bible during the last 5 years I owned my small business in Dallas, Texas, in American Indian Arts. I had 3 women who worked for me and I could stay at my apartment and read Bible with God teaching me during those years.
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The church I attended professed to believe the following scripture:
Ephesians 4:11-12 And HE (Jesus) 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:
At Word of Faith church, they had prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers but no one who was said to be "apostle".
I did not tell them what God said to me, "I have called you and set you in the body of Christ as an apostle." When I heard that from God, I was shocked and replied to God, "Apostle? What's an apostle?"
Of course I knew from the NT Bible what an apostle was ... Peter and Paul. But I didn't have any human example from God at church to go by as an example. So God had to teach me, and God did teach me what that meant in my case. It is simply an anointing to deal with church doctrine!
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I asked our Bible teacher at Word of Faith: Who are the apostles at this church? He replied, "I don't know."
I asked our Bible teacher: "What is the work of a NT apostle?" He replied, "I don't know."
So God had to teach me. God taught me by the Bible, especially by Acts 15! For a question arose in the NT church. The apostles and elders met at Jerusalem to discuss the question and make a ruling.
After the Bible was written, we had rulings for the church based on scripture inspired by God.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
The problem is many churches have fallen away from scripture and have set up doctrines opposite from the NT Bible. This is antichrist in the churches in the end time.
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