💥 The truth from God is all that matters in times of crisis.

 

Comments by Joan Boney:

 

In early December, 2024, I ran into a problem with another church person.  It happened around 6 PM.  I turned my TV off and began pleading with God for help.  

 

Within about the first hour, something began to form in my mind ... a  portion of a scripture.

 

But is that from YOU, God?

 

I continued to cry out to God ... 

 

I did nothing but sit and call on God for help until midnight when I was persuaded that what I had heard between 6 and 7 PM that night was from God.

 

The Holy Spirit is "The Spirit of Truth."

Truth would come to me through God by the Holy Spirit.

 

Only God knew the truth about this church woman and the long standing problem and I knew truth would have to come to me through God ... and I felt surely it would ... I knew I would do nothing else until I had God's truth. 

Around midnight I felt assured that I had God's truth on the matter at hand. 

 

What I heard from God is the problem with the current church woman was "idolatry".

 

The answer for me was the following:

 

I Corinthians 5:11  But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.  13  ... Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 

This woman practiced idolatry concerning me for the past 44 years.  And this was the cause of the numerous problems throughout the years, but I did not know why these things had continued happening until God showed me the truth that night in early December, 2024.

 

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Then I remembered Linda Moore who died a few years ago.  She was only in her 50's.

I believe this happened to her and I believe it was over idolatry toward me as a minister.

 

 

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Only one time in my life before now have I had to do I Corinthians. 5:11-13.

 

When I attended Word of Faith church in Farmer's Branch, Texas, in approximately 1983, I heard about the "girlfriend" of the teacher of our singles class.

 

He was a divorced man with 1 child.

 

No one at the church had heard of him having "a girlfriend."

 

Face to face, I said to him ... "I've heard you have a girlfriend.  Is that right?"

 

He indicated he did.  

 

When he was very evasive, I asked:  "Are you having sexual intercourse with this woman?" 

 

He replied:  "Of course."  (No shame nor repentance.)

 

I was deeply grieved.  And I said:   

 

"You know the Bible as well as I do.  I can't come to your Bible classes anymore.  According to Paul, I can't 'Keep company' with you anymore."

 

He replied, "That's right."  (He didn't care)

 

Many years later, I heard from him by letter, still no word of repentance.  But he said:   "Fornication is no problem for me any more."

 

I felt he was telling me his physical body had been destroyed, and he was unable to commit fornication any more.

 

I Corinthians. 5:4-5 Paul says ...  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

(I hope he is saved in the day of the Lord Jesus ... and I think that salvation will be by "turning him over to Satan for destruction of his flesh." )

I believe I did that when I did what Paul said to do ... I Corinthians 5:13  ... Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 

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E-mail I sent to the woman who committed Idolatry toward me.

Please remove my name as beneficiary of your will

No more offerings, please

I cannot go forward with you in peace

I Cor. 5:11 ...idolatry toward me

I do ask God to have mercy on your soul

 

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The following morning I called her and asked her:  "Do you know you have been committing Idolatry?"

 

She replied:  "Now I do know it to be idolatry."

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I know many church people commit idolatry toward their churches and ministers.

They believe in the minister rather than in God.  Their faith is in their minister and in their church.

I've seen this many times.  They go forward for prayer at church because they inwardly think the minister's prayer will be answered while their own prayer has not been answered.

One time while I was on radio, a minister asked me to speak at his small church in San Angelo, Texas.  

I agreed to do this.  

After I spoke, the minister asked people who needed prayer to come forward and he asked me to pray for these people.

I went up to one woman in the prayer line, and I said:  "And what is it you want God to do for you?  Tell me.  For God will tell me what it is you are doing."

She was terrified and began jumping up and down and shouted:  "OH NO, Lord!  Don't tell her."

The congregation burst out laughing.  Even they knew what she really was!

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