Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
In USA football, often a player will run into the end zone and catch a pass for a touchdown and then he will kneel down and raise one finger into the air with his head bowed.
It would appear that he is thanking God. HIS god might not even be our God. But even if it is our God, does this really glorify God when we do an achievement that is a work of the flesh of man?
And if he is really of God why not pray without letting anyone know he is praying.
(With me, I often pray without letting the other person know by outward signs that I am praying.)
To make a touchdown in football is a work of the flesh of man ... emulation.
It is done to exalt yourself above the other team, to win over another.
How can we thank God that we were able to beat another person? How can we thank God for doing a work of the flesh which is against God's way?
Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Emulation:
- rivalry (often jealous rivalry)
- ambitious or envious rivalry
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I might watch a sporting event but I never attribute them to God nor pray over such.
They are a work of the flesh of man.
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How do we glorify God?
We glorify God when we do that which God tells us to do ... and when we tell others the reason we did this thing is God told us to do it.
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