Podcast: The churches fall away from scripture. This is the apostasy of the end times.

 

 

 

 

2 Thessalonians 2  (KJV)

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

In 1982, I was reading the above scripture and God spoke to me and said:  "The falling away are not people leaving the churches.  The falling away are the churches leaving the scripture."

This was the end time apostasy where the spirit of antichrist takes over in the church groups.

(NASB)

5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.

The one who restrains antichrist is Jesus "The Word".

As soon as the churches removed portions of the Word, the door was opened for antichrist to move into the church group.

When Jesus returns, antichrist and the apostate churches will be destroyed by HIM

(KJV)

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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At the end, God destroys this present heaven and earth.

2 Peter 3:10-14

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.

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God sends HIS angels to gather HIS elect:

Matthew 24:31  And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

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💥 Sometimes we don't pray because we can't imagine how God can help us.

 

You'd like to be out of debt.  But how could that be possible?

I've found God to make ways when I had no idea how it could be done.

In 2018, I fell at my house in Texas and broke a hip.  The night before surgery, a nurse came to my room.  She said I had to name someone to be responsible for me in case I couldn't answer for myself.  Immediately without any thought whatsoever, I replied,  "Pam Padgett is responsible for me."

One of our church members was standing in my room at the time I was asked this question and when I answered.  She was shocked.  She said, "How can Pam be responsible for you?  She doesn't even live here.  She is 450 miles away."

I replied:  "I don't know HOW Pam can be but she is."

(I believe God had put it into my heart that Pam was responsible for me.  And if that was the case, "how" would never be considered.  For if God chose her, it would be done.)

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The apostle Paul was a prisoner aboard a ship that was in danger of shipwreck.

God sent an angel with a message for Paul.

Acts 27

21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.

23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

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Luke 1:37  For with God nothing shall be impossible.

You may not know "how", but God does HIS own will and nothing is impossible with God.

Talk with God.  Build your faith with the promises given by God in the Bible.  And pray in faith.

Is that the will of God for you?  If so, God will answer your prayer.

I John 5

14 And this is the confidence that we have in HIM, that, if we ask any thing according to HIS will, HE heareth us:

15 And if we know that HE hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of HIM.

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💥 Christ dwells in our heart by faith in HIS Word.

 

As children of God we believe the Word of God.  We believe both the written Word of God and we believe that Word which God speaks to us directly to our mind by HIS Spirit.

The devil may try from time to time to get us to think we don't believe The Word.  If that happens, I often just pick up the Bible and begin reading where I left off and it isn't long before my faith in the Word is confirmed again as I think of the Word.

And we overcome all things at all times as we turn to God and believe on HIS Word.

Romans 8

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through HIM (The Word) that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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The love of the Word of God is everything to us.  

As a faithful woman loves her husband, we love The Word of God.  We believe that which we hear from God.  We protect THAT WORD and cherish that which God says to us.  For The Word from God is life to us and nothing is greater to us than The Word.

Jesus says:  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

The Word is come to us that we might have life and have life more abundantly.

Learn to cling to The Word at all times and do not permit devils to steal The Word from you with their thoughts and reasonings.  Do not allow yourself to think on lies from devils.

For the devil is a liar and there is no truth in him.

John 8:43-44  (To the unbelievers Jesus said)

43 Why do ye not understand MY speech? even because ye cannot hear MY word.

44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Do not let yourself listen to devils.  Cling to what God says with all your heart for it is truly your life!

The devil would kill us if possible.

The Word saves us.

Therefore we do not easily give up The Word or let those devils steal The Word.

The Word is everything to us!

John1

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by HIM; and without HIM was not any thing made that was made.

4 In HIM was life; and the life was the light of men.

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At the end of this world, Jesus returns to gather HIS elect who believe in HIM, the truth.  And Jesus will destroy those who refused to love the truth.

2 Thessalonians 2

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

(They cast aside scripture and clung to churches of the apostasy where they cast aside scripture.  They did not have a love of the truth of the scripture and they perish.)

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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With the heart we believe unto righteousness.

Romans 10

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised HIM from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Love the Holy Scriptures above all people and things and churches.

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Podcast: Scriptures on: Divorce/remarriage; fornication; homosexual/lesbian; and other sins against God

 

 

 

I John 5

2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep HIS commandments.

3 For this is the love of God, that we keep HIS commandments: and HIS commandments are not grievous.

4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

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We who are born of God are recreated by God in the Word of God and we love the Word of God and we keep the commandment of God written in the Holy Scriptures and by these scriptures we reconstruct our lives and know God's truth.

Divorce & remarriage:

💥  Matthew 5:32  (Jesus says)  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

The only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife is adultery.  If his wife was unfaithful to him, he may divorce that unfaithful wife.

If a man divorces a faithful wife and she remarries, he will be the cause of her adultery which she will commit if she remarries.

And the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

💥  I Corinthians 7:10-11  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

💥  Mark 10  (Jesus says)

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
 
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.

11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

💥  Romans 7:2-3  For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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Fornication:

💥  I Corinthians 6:15-18  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

💥  I Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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Homosexuals & lesbians:

💥  Romans 1

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

20 For the invisible things of HIM from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even HIS eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified HIM not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

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Mark 10:6   But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

They are born male and female but they are turned over by God to be homosexual/lesbians.  If they repent and recognize the truth of the scripture and turn from homosexual and lesbian acts they can be saved.

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💥  I Corinthians 6

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals) , nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

When God shows us our sins and we repent, God causes us to be born again, giving us a new heart and a new spirit, HIS heart and spirit.  

💥  Ezekiel 36  God says

23 And I will sanctify MY great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.

If we continue in God's Word to the end of our lives on this present earth, doing HIS Word and trusting in Jesus, The Word, we will be saved.

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💥 Rid yourself of fear when it comes to mind.

* When they began to fight in Ukraine, concern came to me.  But the Holy Spirit reminded me of that which Jesus said:  "There will be wars and rumors of wars.  Let not your heart be troubled!"

So I agreed!

I began praying for God to help us.

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* When they spoke of The National Debt in USA and what "might" happen as a result:  cuts in social security; reduction in medical benefits; 

The Holy Spirit reminded me of this scripture:  

I Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

If we trust in that which we have now, given by men of governments, we live in danger.

Our trust must be in the living God.

So we pray to God over each fear that comes to mind.

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2 Timothy 1:7  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Where does fear come from?  Usually from listening to the newscasts and from other humans and by taking in thoughts from devils.

* In 2021, I was bombarded by fears one morning:  "What will happen to you if you get to where you can't walk?  You can't live here if that happens.  Where will you go?"  (I was 81 at that time.)

I cried out to God for help.

And immediately the Holy Spirit brought this to my mind:  "God will supply all your need."  

"That's right!"  I exclaimed!

(I forgot that but the Holy Spirit reminded me. Phil. 4:19)

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In each case, we must pray to God, putting our trust in God through prayer.

Philippians 4:6-7

6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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2 Corinthians 7:1  Having therefore these promises, (of God), dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

2 Peter 1:2-4

2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord (The Word),

3 According as HIS divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of HIM that hath called us to glory and virtue:

4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Which promises of God do you trust in?  List some of these promises which cause you to have peace in troubled times.

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💥 By nature we were once the children of wrath, but no more.

 

Ephesians 2

1 And you hath HE  quickened (made alive), who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation (manner of life) in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

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But now we are rooted and grounded in The Word of God, in Jesus who is the Word.

Now we live in truth of God.

Now we are born again, new creatures, living in the Word of God.

We have learned to have faith in God.

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Recently I was considering what I believe:

💥  I believe Jesus is the Son of God.

💥  I believe Jesus died for my sins and HIS blood paid for my sins and HE gave me a new heart and a new spirit from God so I can now obey HIM and follow God.

💥  I believe God raises the dead in Christ and will gather the elect and take them to the new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth only righteousness which we desire!

💥  I believe in the Word of God, both the written word, the Holy Scriptures and the Word carried down from heaven by God to help us and comfort us and guide us on this earth.  

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We have been given wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption through HIM, The Word, and can now live in peace through HIS Word even in the midst of trouble of this world.

Each time we pray to God we put our faith in God and connect with God.

Luke 21:35  Jesus said:  

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Pray always over every matter, connecting with God while living on this present earth.

And be thankful to God for your provision which HE has placed in your life on this earth.

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Podcast: We are God's workmanship

 

 

2 Corinthians 1:24   Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

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After I was born again in 1975, my Church of Christ cousin tried to take over the self-imposed job of being my "spiritual supervisor."

She had recognized that I was now a Christian, and she said:  "I just don't see HOW you can be."

(She didn't understand being born again.  She didn't understand that it is God who does the work in us and she didn't understand the working of the Holy Spirit.)

I was 38 years old when I was born again.

God caused me to be born again.  God said to me:  "Joan ... you know those mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."

Immediately God began teaching me, by the Bible, taking me from scripture to scripture as HE willed to prepare me for the work assigned by HIM.

In a local prayer group, God taught me to operate in the spiritual gifts which HE had given me.

It was this way:  One day, as the women were praying, I heard these words:  "Look up!"  I raised my head, opened my eyes, and saw on the wall an outline of a part of a human body.  I said to God, "I know that is a part of the human body but I don't know which part."  I heard, "Stomach."  

"Oh yes," I responded.  "It is a stomach."  I remembered the Pepto-Bismal  commercials I'd seen on television. 

When the women quit praying, I asked, "Does anyone have a stomach problem?"

One woman excitedly cried out, "I do!  I do!"

After that God would often give me "a word of knowledge" when I attended the prayer group or the single's class at the church.

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A few days after I was born again, I was sleeping in the night and was transported into heaven.  I was with God and Christ and the Holy Spirit.  I saw no physical 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 again.

I didn't know what this meant.

(Later I came to believe I was ordained at that time into the two ministry offices to which I was called by God:  apostle & prophet)

Ephesians 4

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

8 Wherefore HE saith, When HE 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:

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God took me through all the scriptures in the Bible concerning prophets, showing me the work of the prophets in the church and teaching me many things about prophets.

Also I was shown by God doctrine for the New Testament Church as presented in the Holy Bible, for those called as an apostle have a special ordination to deal with church doctrines.

God showed me "many revelations" opening my eyes to understand what the scriptures were saying.

(An example:)  

Matthew 24:3-5  And as HE (Jesus) sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto HIM privately, saying, "Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of THY coming, and of the end of the world?"  4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, "Take heed that no man deceive you.  5 For many shall come in MY name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."

Immediately I saw what Jesus meant.  

Many would come saying HE, Jesus was Christ, and by saying that they would deceive many.  

This is the end-time apostasy in the churches, the "falling away" described by the apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2.

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

And God said to me:

"The falling away are not people leaving the churches. The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."

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Another scripture which God explained to me was this:

Matthew 16:13-17

13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, HE asked HIS disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

14 And they said, Some say that THOU art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

16 And Simon Peter answered and said, THOU art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but MY Father which is in heaven.

18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build MY church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

The significant point was not Peter saying Jesus is the Christ.

The significant point was the fact that it was God who showed this to Peter.  

The Word of God that came down from heaven to the individual was that upon which Jesus would build HIS church. The gates of hell could not prevail over THAT WORD which God gives on the matter at hand.

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For the next five years God taught me the Bible and how to operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the church.  I went to many seminars at various church groups in the Dallas area and at those meetings God often gave me spiritual gifts to share with those church groups.  By these spiritual gifts the churches recognized that a call of God was on my life.  

During this time, I owned a small business in Dallas, American Indian Arts.  One day a prophet from our church group came into my shop and said to me:  "Joan ... you are dragging your feet.  You know you are supposed to be in the ministry."

(I had already published one book, "Taking Thoughts Captive", but I was still operating a secular business.)

I closed the business July 31, 1979, and had already set up papers with the State of Texas and the USA government in 1978 to operate a non-profit church.

I waited at my apartment in Dallas for the next 6 months for God to show me what I was to do in ministry.  I lived off the money from the sale of the business.

On January 10, 1980, in the night while I was sleeping, a very loud voice spoke three words to me:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"

(I believe this was an angel of God speaking to me for the voice was trumpet-like and very strong.)

I found KWJS to be a radio station.  I asked God, "Are YOU telling me to go on radio?  I wouldn't know how to do that.  I'm a writer, not a speaker."

Immediately I heard:  "Call the radio station manager."

That same morning I called the KWJS radio station manager.  I said:  "God might be showing me to go on radio.  How would you do that?"  He replied:  "Make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to me and if you fit our broadcasting we will offer you a contract."

I recorded a tape that same morning and put it into the mail and within 5 days I was broadcasting exhortations to the church on radio KWJS.  Within a year, I was on radio from Hartford (NYC) to Seattle just as I heard in that word spoken in the night to me on January 10, 1980:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"

We are God's workmanship!  HE does as HE wills with us when HE puts us into the body of Christ.  HE prepares us for the work when HE is going to use us as a minister.  HE teaches us and guides us according to the assignment HE gives us.  HIS way is perfect.  No man can do this.  No school can teach us these things.  God does this HIMSELF.

If you are a mother and housewife, God perfects your way in that calling.

If you are a businessman, God perfects you in that area.

Pam Padgett was given a ministry of "helps".

I Corinthians 12:27-28  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.  And God hath set some in the church (to work in the church), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

God prepared Pam to do work in computers.  

When God had me start a blog in 2012, Pam did all technical work for the blog, setting it up for the ministry and publishing exhortations for the church world-wide daily. Later Pam did the technical work for all books that I published on Amazon.  Then in 2020, when we broadcast Podcasts, Pam set this up and chose a host for us so our exhortations could be presented.

God has the way set up for us in all that HE wants us to do.

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Ephesians 2:20  For we are HIS workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

So after you are born again, follow the Holy Spirit and do the scriptures as HE shows you and you will end up where God wants you as you are left on this earth.

Follow God.

No human can do for you that which God will do.

 

 

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💥 Depart from iniquity, says Paul.

 

2 Timothy 2:19  Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are HIS. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

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iniquity:  sins against the Word of God

Sins of the flesh:  

Galatians 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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I Timothy 5:22   Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

Paul warns to to beware of whom you approve.  That person should first prove himself to be a follower of the doctrines of Christ and the Spirit of God.

Many are deceived by appearance of men and women who dress well and have an outward appearance of beauty, smiling and dressing well, and even saying words that fit the Bible, but failing to do the Word of God.

Jesus warns us:

Matthew 24:3-5  And as HE sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto HIM privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of THY coming, and of the end of the world?

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Paul says:

2 Timothy 3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

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Titus 2:11-14

11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

14 WHO gave Himself for us, that HE might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

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Sometimes evil is cloaked in music and song.

Recently there was a movie that had a song I wanted to record.  I did manually record that portion of the movie but I had to watch the evil of the movie up to the point where the song was presented.  I turned the sound off through the movie and recorded the song.  But there was so much evil in the movie itself, I ended up deleting the song, not wanting in any way to approve the evil being done in the movie, or to allow the evil of that movie to "rub off" on my soul.  I was even ashamed I recorded that much of it and asked God to cleanse me of all unrighteousness.

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2 John

8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Be careful who you approve and what you approve lest your own soul be corrupted.

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💥 John 17: Jesus prays for the children of God before HE is removed from this earth.

Jesus has finished the work God gave HIM to do and soon will be crucified, raised from the dead by God, and taken into heaven.

In John 17, Jesus prays for HIS disciples which HE will leave behind on this earth, and Jesus prays for us also, all who will come to earth after the resurrection and will be HIS followers.

John 17  (Jesus says, speaking to God)

6 I have manifested THY name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: THINE they were, and THOU gavest them me; and they have kept THY word.

9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which THOU hast given me; for they are THINE.

13 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through THINE own name (the word) those whom THOU hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in THY name: those that THOU gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13 And now come I to THEE; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have MY joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 I have given them THY word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15 I pray not that THOU shouldest take them out of the world, but that THOU shouldest keep them from the evil.

16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them through THY truth: THY word is truth.

18 As thou hast sent ME into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on ME through their word;

23  I in them, and THOU in ME, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent ME, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved ME.

26  And I have declared unto them THY name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith THOU hast loved ME may be in them, and I in them.

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Podcast: Women speaking in the church

 

 

 

 

When God made it clear to me that I was to function in the church in the offices of apostle and prophet, I asked God,  "How can this be when Paul said let women keep silence in the churches?"

God said to me:  "Look at what these women were doing."

I Corinthians 14:34-35  Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

I believe God was showing me these women were disrupting the gathering of the church by asking questions.

Then God said to me:  Look at the 4 daughters of Philip.  They were prophets.  They would have to speak to the church to prophesy.

Acts 21:8-9  And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. 9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

To prophesy you would have to speak to the church.

And God reminded me of Anna and Deborah:

Luke 2:36-39  And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of HIM to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

Judges 4:4-5  And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. 5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

When God showed me these scriptures I agreed to serve the church as HE showed me:

Apostles:  Deal with scripture and help establish the doctrines of Christ in the churches.

Prophets:  Often carry corrections and exhortations to the churches.

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💥 Abstain from every appearance of evil.

Our main goal as we wait for the return of Jesus should be to live in peace, without spot, and blameless as told us by the apostle Peter in the following scripture.

2 Peter 3

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.

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One of our downfalls can be curiosity.

Recently there was a story of a young man who told many lies while running for congress.  He was elected but before being sworn into office they began to discover these lies he had made up about his resume.  It was shocking.  

A follow up story appeared on CNN but I was reminded of this scripture:  The apostle Paul said, Abstain from all appearance of evil.  (I Thessalonians 5:22)

After hearing that from the Spirit of God, I put my Kindle tablet down and did not look up the story.

Jesus taught HIS disciples to pray:  

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:   (Mt. 6:13)

Paul said:

I Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When we walk in the Spirit, doing that which HE brings to mind, we will be removed from harmful things.

For the Spirit will bring us ideas which lead us into  love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:  (Gal. 5:22-23)

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Podcast: Rules for the gathering of the church:

 

 

 

I Corinthians 14

26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

(God showed me these women were disrupting the flow of the spirit of God.  God said to me, "Look at what these women were doing.")

36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

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💥 Galatians 5

 

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

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Podcast: Tongues in the churches

 

 

 

 

We can see by I Corinthians 14, that the church people of Paul's day greatly desired the gift of tongues.  Paul says to the church:

I Corinthians 14

1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. 11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. 13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? 17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:

25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

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Rules for speaking in tongues in the church:

I Corinthians 14:27-28  If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. 28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

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💥 The New Covenant.

 

God gives us a new heart and a new Spirit after we are born again in the New Covenant church today.

Ezekiel 36   (God says)

23 And I will sanctify MY great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

(God changes us and the people we have been with see the difference in us after God reveals HIMSELF to us.)

24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.

God recreates us with HIS heart and HIS Spirit.

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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The New Covenant:  

Hebrews 8

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8 For finding fault with them, HE saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in MY covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put MY laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:

(The people in the Old Covenant had trouble trying to do the Law of Moses which was given by God.  So God has a new way through the shed blood of Jesus to save the people of God.  God will just put HIS heart and HIS Spirit into us and that will enable us to follow HIM. God recreates us from within by HIS Word.)

11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know ME, from the least to the greatest.

12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

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Hebrews 9

11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by HIS own blood HE entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

15 And for this cause HE is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Who shed blood to pay for our sins?

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for HIM shall HE appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

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Hebrews 10

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5 Wherefore when HE (Jesus) cometh into the world, HE saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared ME:

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin THOU hast had no pleasure.

7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of ME,) to do THY will, O God.

8 Above when HE said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin THOU wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

9 Then said HE (Jesus), Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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Hebrews 10

14 For by one offering HE (Jesus) hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that HE had said before,

16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put MY laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

20 By a new and living way, which HE hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, HIS flesh;

21 And having an high priest over the house of God;

22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for HE is faithful that promised;)

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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