Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
There are some people who believe they can, and should, cast their cares onto God in prayer and God will work the problem out for them. They do not tell their troubles to other church people.
Other church people think they are to tell church people their cares and involve multiple humans in prayer for them.
These two types of church people cannot walk together because their doctrine separates them.
The one who thinks he must talk to you about his troubles, will burden you, while you talk to God about your troubles and trust in God without burdening the other person, putting your faith in God.
Both of you call yourselves Christian but your ways are so different that you cannot follow God together.
I have many joyful things of God in me and I often want to share them with another woman who is Catholic. But I know she cannot receive the joys of God that I have experienced for her own doctrine cuts her out of these things and she has very little Bible doctrine inside her. I have tried sharing scripture with her and often she said, "Yes but ..."
I have a cousin who is member of Church of Christ and would not be able to receive the joy in the Lord that I have inside me.
I have another cousin who doesn't have church doctrine nor Bible doctrine in her but has her own image which she has created of what God is like. I can't share with her most of the time.
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Another example:
There are church people who fail to discipline their tongues. When you are with them, they speak things that greatly trouble you.
You cannot follow God in peace with them for they fail to settle offences with God. They will tell you what others did to them before they settle the matter with God. They trouble you needlessly.
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Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
The church doctrine and the lack of understanding of Bible will separate the two types of Christians.
The way of life lived on this earth separates types of Christians.
Paul described "carnal" people in the church.
I Corinthians 3:1-3 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
(One says, "I'm Baptist." The other says, "I'm Methodist". Carnal.)
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The person may identify himself as a Christian, but we will find we cannot be around that person because our understanding of Bible differs so much. We will be troubled by them.
Peter tells us we must be diligent to be found of Jesus in peace, without spot and blameless. II Peter 3:14
We cannot live in peace, without spot, and blameless while being in the company of those persons who trouble us while they say they are Christians.
If the plant bears thorns and thistles, we are often punctured while trying to pick up that plant.
If a Christian bears thorns and thistles, we will be troubled by their talk. They will not edify us. They will not build us in the way of God. We will end up being consumed by them.
We must not allow this to happen.
We often try to teach them only to find them resenting the godly way of which we speak.
When that happens, we have to avoid them and follow God with others of same doctrine as ours.
There are many strange doctrines in Christians, doctrines not of Bible. We can't follow God with them in peace. There will be trouble and strife to no avail if we try to be with them. And the trouble from them will consume us. We have to learn to leave them alone when this is the case.
The following is our goal:
II Peter 3:14 ... be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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