Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Confess your sins directly unto God ... speak directly to God.
Only God has the power to cleanse you. Only God has the power to wipe out your sins.
I Jn. ... This then is the message which we have heard of HIM, and declare unto you,
that God is light, and in HIM is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with HIM, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Confess your sins to God ... not to other humans. God can deal with sin. God can forgive us. And very important to us is the understanding that God can "cleanse us" from all unrighteousness.
It is the blood of Jesus that pays for all sins.
You can do a great deal of harm to other people by confessing your sins to another person. You can end up greatly hurting that other person. Humans are not equipped by God to deal with our sins. We might tell a past sin as a teaching example when directed by God. Or God might have us go to another person and ask that person to forgive us when we have sinned in past against that person. But to blurt out the story of past sins as if we are on a secular talk show is often another sin and can hurt people. This is the church, not a TV talk show.
Also beware of telling a pastor or other minister your sins. That pastor, or minister, did not shed his blood for your sins. The pastor cannot cleanse you. God has that power. Don't make another person into "your god".
Recently I wrote an exhortation warning everyone about this subject, telling everyone to confess their sins to God and not to another human.
A woman once said to me, "You have no idea of the evil I have done." and before I could think of stopping her she began to tell me of the evil she had done 20+ years ago. adultery / abortion / fornication ... WHY? WHY do this?
This woman has black hair. She is thin the way today's TV advertisement women are usually thin. She loved clothes and loved to shop, fitting herself to attract men to herself and thereby set up her life for adultery, fornication and even abortion ... Now every time I see a woman in an advertisement on TV and she has dark hair and is flaunting herself in front of men I think of this woman who told me of all the evil she has done. And I turn away as quickly as possible.
This woman has been in church circles all her life. Recently when I sent out the message concerning don't tell your sins to another human, she responded immediately with an email and in that email she said she went to doctor and was asked if she had ever been pregnant and she lied and said, "No." This time when she went to same doctor she didn't want to see that person (nurse?) to whom she lied. And she was relieved when that person was not there that day. How twisted in thinking.
I told her I had never had any evidence at all of the Holy Spirit being in her. (thus she was not born again.)
Jude v. 17-19 ... 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers (imitators) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
These "mockers" imitate others ... They go to church and copy those people who seem to them to be "godly".
But these people are not of the Spirit of God. Paul said they are, " Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." II Tim. 3:7
They read the Bible, some read everything I write, and they do this for years ... learning, learning, learning ... but they do not come to the knowledge of the truth because all their learning is of their own mind, not of the Spirit of God.
You cannot learn things of God with your mind as if you are learning a secular subject. Unless you have in you the Spirit of God, you will not learn things of God.
I Cor. 2 ... 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
This woman's fruit is terrible. She even knows her good works are awful. That is because her works that she thinks will be good are works of her own ideas, fleshly, not of the Spirit of God.
People who do good works not authored by God HIMSELF will be turned away by Jesus at the day of judgment.
Mt. 7 ... Jesus said ... 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to ME in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in THY name? and in THY name have cast out devils? and in THY name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
I know many church people who do works of their own fleshly minds and think their works to be "good".
The only good works are those works authored by God through the Spirit of God who dwells in us. But if the Spirit of God is not in you, how can your works that you think "good" be "good" ?
In the day of judgment everyone will know ... but then it will be too late.
Her only hope is turning to God and begging for HIS mercy ...
And that is the only hope any of us have.
Mt. 16 ... 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.
Peter is not blessed because he said, "Jesus is Lord." Many say "Jesus is Lord" and Jesus told HIS disciples this is one of the signs of the "last days" ... Jesus said: Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in MY name, saying, I (Jesus) am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Pastors and others who say "JESUS is Lord" will be able to deceive many because they say "JESUS is Lord", according to Jesus.
I see that often today in churches.
They misquote scripture, twist scripture and will not correct themselves when godly people bring correction. And they have no shame over their mis-handling of scripture. They are "antichrist" in the churches, opposite to Christ's way in the scriptures.
So when Jesus said Peter was blessed, it was not because Peter said, "Jesus is Lord". Peter was blessed, Jesus said, "because flesh and blood had not revealed this" to Peter but God in heaven had revealed this truth to Peter. That, Jesus said, is what the church would be built on ... the word revealed by God... and the gates of hell would not stand against that word revealed by God.
The Holy Spirit does not speak of "himself", of his own ideas. The Holy Spirit searches the heart of God to know the will of God and to reveal the will of God to the individual who belongs to God.
And the Holy Spirit is given to each individual who belongs to God. And each believer is sealed by the Holy Spirit. Eph. 1
And the apostle Paul says, Romans 8 ... Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of HIS. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of HIM that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, HE that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by HIS Spirit that dwelleth in you.
...14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
But liars are children of the devil, says Jesus.
John 8 ... 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.
Before I was born again, I made my way through life as a skillful liar.
But after I was born again, God wouldn't allow me to lie. When I started to lie, or be hypocritical, there would be a "check" and I would have to stop from speaking. And God would cause me to speak truth. Because now the Spirit of Truth lived in me, the Holy Spirit. Neither could I twist the truth or speak partial truth, making people think well of me as I once did.
I was speaking on a TV show in Detroit in the early 1980's. Enroute home, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, "Don't do any more TV talk shows."
I had already scheduled two more TV talk shows: Dallas & Phoenix
Surely God would want me to fulfill my word, my commitment. But that was not so. When God said to me "Don't do any more TV talk shows," God meant "any more."
So I began thinking, "How can I get out of these TV talk shows?"
As I thought on various things I could tell the TV hosts, I heard following from the Holy Spirit:
"Why don't you just tell them the truth?"