Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
God says: 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: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. Heb. 8
It is not by your own effort this happens. It is not like learning math where you take a book and learn step by step.
Rather, God puts HIS laws into our mind and God writes HIS laws in our hearts.
When I was a new Christian, God put in my heart things about the Holy Spirit.
Later, I saw these things listed in two chapters of Bible.
It is interesting because one verse is in Jn. 14 ... the other verse is in Jn. 16 ... The information was scattered in two chapters with one chapter between the two verses. (Sort of the way parables kept the people not of God from knowing what Jesus was saying.)
Later, God connected these two verses and I saw what God had already put into my heart on the matter.
Jn. 14:26 ... But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Jn. 16:13 ... Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:and he will shew you things to come.
When Jesus was on the earth in the flesh, the rulers of the synagogue marvelled because they said how did Jesus do this, "never having learned letters" ... He couldn't read or write so how could this be possible for him to do.
"How can Jesus know these things? He didn't go to school to learn like we did."
Jn. 7 ... 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
Jesus explained that what he knew was not of man but was from the Father, from God.
Later they said the same concerning His disciples ...
Jn. 6 ... 45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught (by) of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned (from)of the Father, cometh unto me.
Peter is one of those taught by God ... Peter learned from God the Father, by God putting information, truth, into his heart.
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.
This truth was revealed by God ... not by any man.
This is the "revealed" word from God.
And upon that the church is built.
The truth was not learned by human effort. It was not researched and learned by effort of Peter. God simply put this truth into Peter's heart.
Often that has happened to me. I just "know".
I know because God has put it in my heart and mind.
Often after I know, I will see it in Bible and thereby what I know is confirmed to me by God through Bible. But before then, God has written that truth in my heart and into my mind.
This is the New Covenant.
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: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. Heb. 8
The apostle Paul, speaking of the Holy Spirit, said ...
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.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
We have "the mind of Christ" because God has put it in our mind ... We have truth from God written in our mind and in our hearts by God HIMSELF.