Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
John 15:26 Jesus says: But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, HE shall testify of ME:
The Holy Spirit is the Comforter, providing truth from God and assurance to us which relieves us from fear and anxiety.
Humans often try to comfort a suffering person but they do such in fleshly ways, often speaking platitudes which mean little or nothing.
When a man in our church group died, I gave his widow the following.
I Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (Notice Paul says to give these words to one another when a death has occurred. I believe God will honor this when we give these words to survivors.)
She wrote me and said everyone else around her just gave fleshly statements to her. I was the only one who spoke something spiritual.
Paul said to comfort them with these words, so that is what I do in such times.
I Thessalonians 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Those who are of God will receive the comfort of the truth in times of death.
We can feel very sorry for a person and not be able to do anything to help.
But the Holy Spirit is the Helper and that help provided by the Holy Spirit is help in truth and is no lie and will endure forever for it is the word from the Heart of God at that moment in time.
The scriptures teach us that the Holy Spirit brings to our mind those things that are of God. I Corinthians 2
These things are not of his own thinking nor of the flesh of man but of God for the Holy Spirit searches the heart of God to reveal to us the thoughts of God to help us completely in times of need.
Focus on that brought to mind by the Holy Spirit.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (Notice Paul says to give these words to one another when a death has occurred. I believe God will honor this when we give these words to survivors.)
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She wrote me and said everyone else around her just gave fleshly statements to her. I was the only one who spoke something spiritual.
Paul said to comfort them with these words, so that is what I do in such times.
I Thessalonians 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Those who are of God will receive the comfort of the truth in times of death.
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We can feel very sorry for a person and not be able to do anything to help.
But the Holy Spirit is the Helper and that help provided by the Holy Spirit is help in truth and is no lie and will endure forever for it is the word from the Heart of God at that moment in time.
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The scriptures teach us that the Holy Spirit brings to our mind those things that are of God. I Corinthians 2
These things are not of his own thinking nor of the flesh of man but of God for the Holy Spirit searches the heart of God to reveal to us the thoughts of God to help us completely in times of need.
Focus on that brought to mind by the Holy Spirit.
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