Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The Old Testament is an example for us.
Moses was said to be the meekest of all men. Yet Moses was a very powerful man of action. So what does "meek" mean in context of scripture?
Meek is that person who hears the WORD of God from the Spirit of God and obeys that word regardless.
David was a man after God's own heart, God putting HIS Spirit upon David.
But some in the OT showed they did not believe what God said and when they acted in unbelief they could not enter into the rest of God.
There are examples where God told them to go in and take the land. But they did not do what God said. Then later they decided to do what God said. Moses told them don't do it now for God is not with you now. They disregarded Moses as they had disregarded God and they set about to do what they had failed to do before and they were destroyed because God was no longer with them.
Numbers 14:1-10 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
If the LORD delight in us, then HE will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones.
Later they decided to do what God had told them to do but it would not work for them now because God was not with them.
Numbers 14:40-43 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
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When we hear a word from God by the Holy Spirit of God we must do that word then and if we do that word when we hear that word, God is with us. And we continue in that word, doing the instruction because of that word, not turning from that word, not falling away from that word given by God.
That word may be a scripture or that word of instruction may be a thought given us to show us what to do. Either way it is a word from God by HIS Spirit.
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John 15:1-3 I (The Word) am the true vine, and MY Father is the husbandman.
Every branch in ME that beareth not fruit HE taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, HE purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
NT church today: God speaks to us through HIS Spirit through thoughts, reminding us of scriptures or giving us specific instruction as to what we are to do in the issues of this present life. Sometimes we will receive correction and when we do that correction we are cleansed from our fleshly way. Many times we receive instruction so we will know the will of God in the matter at hand.
The apostle Paul explains:
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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John 15:4-6 Jesus says ... Abide in ME (the Word), and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in ME.
I (the Word) am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in ME, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without ME ye can do nothing.
If a man abide not in ME, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
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Many set out to do the scriptures without hearing from the Spirit of God. They, by their own mind, try to follow the instruction of the Bible. They end up doing the wrong thing at the wrong time and fail miserably in their own works for it is their own works they are doing unless the Spirit of God is there leading them.
Therefore Jesus explains:
Matthew 7:21-23 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.
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?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
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