Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
I Tim. 4:1 ... Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
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Doctrines of devils are a bit like a counterfeit money. It can be a close copy but not exactly right.
The Faith Movement doctrine teaches you to stand on scripture. This certainly seems right!
You are taught to find a scripture and "stand" on that scripture.
So what's wrong with that?
God and the Holy Spirit are often removed as you do this with your own searching of scripture.
When you do that, you end up being your own god, making yourself a god as you handle everything by finding a scripture and standing on it, by faith.
Faith in God begins with hearing what God has to say about the matter.
The fact that we want something to happen and find a scripture to "stand on", which seems to justify it happening, does not mean we were led by Spirit of God that this is what would happen.
I had a young friend who was diagnosed with the disease ALS. He was 44 with a wife and 2 children at the time. God gave me an open vision about David. He was on golf course and was completely healed and he had gone on before us and was signaling with his hands for us to "come on" it was great. He was so excited, jumping up and down with joy as he signaled to us.
I knew God was showing me David died but he was OKAY in death.
During this time, a church person said to me, "Don't you think that vision means David is going to be healed?" I replied, "David is dying." (David died.)
I didn't try to find scripture to stand on for David's healing. I knew from God what was going to happen.
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When you hunt for a scripture to justify what you want to have happen, you might easily fail to consider the following:
What is the will of God for me?
When we pray, we must pray according to "the will of God."
In 1980, when I was in the Faith Movement, I was "believing" for a husband. I found a scripture to stand on .... "none shall want her mate" .... I prayed, quoted this scripture, believed ... it didn't happen because that is not what God planned for me.
I had a call of God on my life and it was going to require all my attention, especially toward the end.
When we pray, we must pray according to "the will of God."
In 1980, when I was in the Faith Movement, I was "believing" for a husband. I found a scripture to stand on .... "none shall want her mate" .... I prayed, quoted this scripture, believed ... it didn't happen because that is not what God planned for me.
I had a call of God on my life and it was going to require all my attention, especially toward the end.
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Several years ago, Kenneth Copeland was teaching something called "the authority of the believer", where believers had authority over devil and could stop devil from operating in life of believer or family of believer.
Again this omits God, making believer his own god, making believer "the power."
We were taught to take authority over devil and command devil, "in the name of Jesus", to remove himself when there was a potential problem. I don't recall anyone teaching us to ask God for HIS help. We were to take authority, being "as god"... antichrist ... II Thess. 2.
We were taught to take authority over devil and command devil, "in the name of Jesus", to remove himself when there was a potential problem. I don't recall anyone teaching us to ask God for HIS help. We were to take authority, being "as god"... antichrist ... II Thess. 2.
And if it fails to work, then it is said your faith is weak ... so you must develop even stronger faith to make it work. I've never heard anyone say, "This teaching is wrong."
The Faith Movement attracts vast numbers of people who want to be in control and want to be prosperous and want the things taught in this movement.
(It was started in approximately 1963 by Kenneth Hagin.)
Jesus said ... Jn. 5:39-40 ... (Ye) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of ME. And ye will not come to ME, that ye might have life.
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When we are following God, we pray, asking God for HIS wisdom, asking God for help, asking God to show us what HE wants us to do ... often the Holy Spirit brings to our mind scripture and when this is the case it is by GOD and not by our own fleshly wisdom that we view scripture. What we want is basically not a factor. What God says about the issue is critical. We seek HIS will.
And the Holy Spirit compares spiritual with spiritual.
I Cor. 2:13 ... 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.
I Cor. 2:13 ... 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.
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The Faith Movement is just one area in churches where they follow doctrines of devils, changing scripture to suit themselves and to appeal to many people who are committing sins against God without repentance. The other church do this also but in different ways.
But in each of the various church that change and eliminate scripture, they end up sanctioning sins rather than causing repentance from sins.
But in each of the various church that change and eliminate scripture, they end up sanctioning sins rather than causing repentance from sins.
I once attended a dinner where I was seated next to a man who was wearing the biggest cross around his neck that I have ever seen. He identified himself to all seated at our table. He said he was former pastor at Indiana Baptist Church. He went on to talk about his church. He said, "We have a terrible problem at our church. We just keep adding to the church building and we still don't have enough room to seat all the people."
I said, "If you would begin teaching what Jesus said ... the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery" ... about 1/2 of the people would leave you and you would no longer have a seting problem at your church."
(Mt. 5:32 ... Jesus said ... 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.)
(Mt. 5:32 ... Jesus said ... 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.)
I got up and left the table and skipped the dinner, wanting no part of having to sit beside this man any further.
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In trying to find a church to attend over the past 30+ years, I've run into the same thing over and over ... pastors changing scriture, omitting scripture, mishandling scripture ... In each case, I went to pastor in private and showed pastor the scripture. In each case pastor became angry at me and showed no repentance nor shame at his mishandling of scripture. Of course I could not attend that church group.
I never found a church group I could attend because of the changing of scripture in those groups. (Among the church groups I attended: Faith Movement, Church of Christ, Baptist, Assembly of God, several non-denominational churches)
I never found a church group I could attend because of the changing of scripture in those groups. (Among the church groups I attended: Faith Movement, Church of Christ, Baptist, Assembly of God, several non-denominational churches)
(If you are interested in a detailed account of those specific churches, read Chapter 10, Building Your House On The Word of God ... see book at Amazon.com)
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In April, 2017, God gave me one word and by that one word I knew what I had been seeing all these years in the various churches all these past years: "restraint"
The restraint was removed allowing sin into the church. The "restraint" was scripture, even portions of scripture, that had been holding antichrist back from the churches.
This is the apostasy. This is antichrist in the churches.
II Thess. 2 ... NASB ... Let no one in any way deceive you, for it (the day of the LORD) will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.
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. Then that lawless one will be revealed
The restraint was the scripture. When portions of scripture were removed from the church, lawlessness moved into the churches ... thus the apostasy in the churches.
(Antichrist is not one man but is a spirit in many men just as the devil is not one person but a spirit in many people.)
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Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.
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. Then that lawless one will be revealed
The restraint was the scripture. When portions of scripture were removed from the church, lawlessness moved into the churches ... thus the apostasy in the churches.
(Antichrist is not one man but is a spirit in many men just as the devil is not one person but a spirit in many people.)
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In I Timothy 4, the apostle Paul also spoke of seducing spirits that people would give heed to and follow leaving the faith in the last days.
Here is an example of that:
I Tim. 4:1 ... Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.
We have a situation that has been going on for months with a woman who will hear the right way of God but goes the wrong way because the thought came to her to go this other way which is opposite to be right way of God
When I saw I Tim. 4:1, I knew she was giving heed to a seducing spirit. But notice, she is doing it to herself for she is "giving heed" to this seducing spirit.
seduce: means ... to attract or lead someone away from proper behavior or thinking
(I hope this woman can come back from this ... nevertheless, even if her flesh is destroyed by Satan, I have prayed that her soul be saved. She has a wonderful spirit and charity when she is in her right mind.)
This should be a warning for each of us ... seducing spirits will draw us away from the right way if we allow it. We have access to prayer and at the time of temptation we certainly have a mighty and secure weapon in prayer, asking God for help ... "Please don't let me do that." Please don't let me say that."
But to blindly and carelessly go in a direction without evaluation of the way is very foolish.
We must not do that.
Deception is rampant in these times ... the end times.
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We have a situation that has been going on for months with a woman who will hear the right way of God but goes the wrong way because the thought came to her to go this other way which is opposite to be right way of God
When I saw I Tim. 4:1, I knew she was giving heed to a seducing spirit. But notice, she is doing it to herself for she is "giving heed" to this seducing spirit.
seduce: means ... to attract or lead someone away from proper behavior or thinking
(I hope this woman can come back from this ... nevertheless, even if her flesh is destroyed by Satan, I have prayed that her soul be saved. She has a wonderful spirit and charity when she is in her right mind.)
This should be a warning for each of us ... seducing spirits will draw us away from the right way if we allow it. We have access to prayer and at the time of temptation we certainly have a mighty and secure weapon in prayer, asking God for help ... "Please don't let me do that." Please don't let me say that."
But to blindly and carelessly go in a direction without evaluation of the way is very foolish.
We must not do that.
Deception is rampant in these times ... the end times.