💥 Open visions from God

 

(Comments by Joan Boney)

The first time God gave me an open vision (word of knowledge):  I was at a local prayer group.  About 10-15 women were praying over something.  We were standing in a circle and had our heads bowed and eyes closed as we prayed.  God said to me, "Look up."  (The women continued praying.) 

I looked up and saw something as if it were outlined on the wall in front of me.  It was part of a human body.  

I said to God, "I know that is part of a human body but I don't know which part."

I heard, "Stomach."

"Oh, yes, It's a Stomach."  I remembered the old Pepto-Bismol commercials on TV.

 

 

 

After the women finished praying, I said:

"Does someone have a stomach problem?"

One woman began jumping up and down and shouted:  "I do!  I do!"

I suppose the women prayed for her.

I was so excited thinking of what God had shown me that I don't remember what happened to her.

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Open vision:  (Word of knowledge)

Spiritual gifts for the church:

1 Corinthians 12

4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

(God shows the spiritual gifts to different individuals in various ways.)

7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as HE will. (As God wills.)

12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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I Corinthians 12:27-28

27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

28 And God hath set some in the church, (to care for the church), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

Romans 12

4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

7 Or ministry (serving), let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

1 Peter 4:10-11

10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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After the experience at the prayer group where God showed me a stomach outlined on the wall, God often gave me open visions (word of knowledge) when I attended the Bible class at the church I was attending and sometimes as I sat alone at my home.  He would usually show me these visions on a solid wall.

💥 Pam Padgett was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2022.  (We were in shock!)

One day as I was sitting in my TV room, I saw something in the corner of the wall.  It was a very quick view and seemed to be a "ball-type" mass of something wadded up in the corner of the ceiling of the room.   Suddenly it shrank with a "swooshing" sound,  and it was gone.    

Pam began chemotherapy treatments in 2022.  They were planning to remove her bladder after the chemo.  

Pam began praying asking God if there was any other way this treatment could be done without removing the bladder.

The chemo pharmacist gave Pam some writings explaining what to expect from chemotherapy treatments.  There were over 20 pages of information.  After reading these, Pam decided to read an additional page the pharmacist had included which was about bladder cancer treatment in general.  On this page there was the following statement which stood out to Pam for it fitted what she had been asking God. 

"An approach using chemotherapy with radiation therapy may provide the same benefits as bladder removal."

Pam began asking God if this was the way to go!

A member of our little church group had been trained as a nurse and when she read this statement she said, "Now I have hope!"

Pam asked God how she could deal with her doctors and the medical team who had planned to do surgery to remove bladder, how could she switch to radiation/chemo. 

God gave Pam a dream showing her in the medical office speaking to a doctor while a "man" was sitting with Pam.  She felt this was a man from God put there with her to assist her in speaking to the medical doctors.

5 of the doctors and their assistants felt the radiation was not "ideal" for Pam's case and the best thing to do was chemo followed by surgical remover of the bladder!  But they said they would switch the plan from removal of bladder to radiation/chemo treatments if that is what Pam wanted.

 

(Pam's report)

 

Pam said: Then I met with the chemo doctor.  He warned that the chemo given with radiation therapy for bladder cancer is harder on the body than the initial chemo I had been given and that I might need a blood transfusion and possibly need to be hospitalized.  

The chemo doctor than asked if I had peace about making this change in treatments.  I told him I had prayed and asked God if there was any way I could be spared bladder removal.  After that, I saw the information provided by the pharmacist about chemo with radiation, and I felt this was an answer to my prayer.  He asked if I am a Christian and I told him I am.  He said he is as well.  He then said since I had peace about making this change, he would setup this kind of chemo and coordinate it with the radiation oncologist, and that he would prescribe things to help me get through this chemo as easily as possible.  

After meeting with the various medical people, we stopped the first kind of chemo and the doctors started setting everything up for chemo with radiation. 

 

The chemotherapy with radiation therapy began in mid-December, 2022 and was completed in January, 2023. 

 

Interestingly, the chemo with radiation turned out to be easier for me, not harder as the chemo doctor expected.  I had no serious problems, mostly just fatigue.  But even the fatigue wasn't as much as with the first chemo plan.  And radiation was no problem at all.

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So after the 3rd chemo treatment a switch was made to a plan for chemo/radiation!

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After the chemo with radiation treatments were completed, two procedures were scheduled to be done in April, 2023, to see if there were any signs of the cancer.

 

Everything seemed to be going fine.  But then not long after these procedures were scheduled, fearful thoughts suddenly came to me, such as "What if the tests show more cancer?"   

I was very shaken and turned to God for help, and was given the concept of resting in having done what I had been led to do by God, resting in HIM, in HIS word to me in this matter.  

For God will work everything according to HIS purpose for me.  I just need to go in the way I believe HE is leading me.

Hebrews 4:3 ... For we which have believed do enter into rest,

 

Romans 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to HIS purpose.  

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I was also given a dream in which I was at the urologist's office to have a scope procedure.  At another point in the dream there were 2 bags with what looked like yard waste in them.  The bags were being examined by scientists or doctors who were looking for disease.  No disease was found! 

When I woke from this dream I prayed about what this dream might mean to me and especially what the 2 bags represented.  The next morning, I was reminded of the 2 upcoming procedures and felt God was showing me that no disease would be found during the procedures in April.

 

The first procedure was done Friday, April 14, 2023, by the urologist looking inside my bladder using a scope.

 

The urologist started out by saying that his understanding is that I had gone to see the specialist/surgeon in Denver and it sounded like I wasn't "keen" on having my bladder removed. I laughed and told him that was correct. 

 

He went on to explain that with the scope he would be checking to see if the chemo had done what was needed, but that if he found a problem it could probably be taken care of with a more minor surgery than was needed last September. (I felt he was trying to prepare me for him finding a problem.) 

 

But as he looked at my bladder, he said "This looks great!"  He said this at least 3 times as he checked various things in the bladder. He did find a small red area, but said nothing needs to be done about that at this time. He'll just monitor it. 

 

Overall, he seemed surprised as he said "This looks great!"

The second procedure, a CT scan, is scheduled for next Wednesday, April 19.

I keep being reminded of the dream I had in which the 2 bags of waste were being examined by doctors or scientists. They were looking for disease but found none. 

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(Comments by Joan Boney)

Several years ago, I had a dream about angels:  In the dream I was taken to the place where angels live.  I came to a stone bridge and there was a little chubby man standing at the foot of the bridge.  He seemed to be the age of late 40's.  He said to me, "Hello ... Joan."  I replied, "You know my name?"  He said, "Oh ... every one here knows your name.  We've been waiting for you a long time."

 

 

 

When Pam and I were putting together this writing we were in my bedroom.  I happened to glance at one of my walls and I saw a vision of that stone bridge and angels dancing over those things Pam and I were writing about the experience she'd had and the doctor's report where the inside of her bladder looked "great".  The angels in heaven were rejoicing over what had happened to her!

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Another open vision ...

In approximately 2004, a young man (44-years old) travelled to Lubbock, Texas, where I was living at that time.  He came to change out sound equipment at my house.

As David was leaving and walking out the back door, he turned and came back to me and said:  "I don't know why I'm telling you this but they think I have the physical disease ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease).  We are going to MD Anderson Hospital in Houston next week for tests."

(My bridge partner had just died from this same disease recently.)

I was horrified at that which David told me about himself.

During the following weeks, I spoke by phone several times and mailed him Biblical information.  He lived in East Texas, 600 miles, from where I lived in West Texas but we talked many times by phone over the coming year.

David did have ALS and doctors estimated he would live 2 more years.  He had a wife and 2 children, one child a girl, 8 years old, and the other a boy in junior high school.

During that time I was in close communication with David by phone and US mail.

After David became totally paralyzed, God gave me an open vision of David.

💥  I saw David totally healed standing on a golf course.  He was very happy and began waiving to me saying, "Come on.  Join me.  It's great here."

 

 

I knew God was showing me David would die.

But God showed me David's spiritual condition and it was similar to this image.

David was very happy and things were wonderful for him.

Shortly after God gave me this open vision and information about David, a man named Clay, who worked for David in the Sound Equipment Business came to Lubbock and visited with me.

Clay was a church person and their church had been praying for David to be healed.

Clay was excited when I told him about the vision given to me by God and Clay said, "Don't you think that means David will live and be healed?"

I replied, "No ... David is dying.  But his spiritual condition is very good!"

(David died within a few days.  I sent a letter to David's wife and children showing them what God had shown me about David's spiritual condition and recommended they read my letter at the funeral to encourage the others who were in the church there.)

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Another open vision ...

💥  On December 6, 2018, I fell at my house in Texas and broke my left wrist and left hip.  As I was in hospital awaiting surgery, I had a strange vision of one of the women in our church group.  She was standing at the foot of my hospital bed staring down at me.  She said nothing at all.  After a few seconds, she turned with her back to me and walked through the wall into the next room, disappearing.  I thought I was having an hallucination from all the drugs they had been giving me.

After surgery they put me into a rehabilitation hospital where I remained for the next 2 1/2 months.

During this time the woman from our church group came to my room and sat down beside my bed and said:  "I need to tell you this.  I don't care about anyone or anything any more.  I no longer read the Bible or blog."

I said:  "But if you go this way, what is going to happen with you?"

She stood up and began walking toward the door to my private bath and she said, "I don't want to talk to 'YOU' about this." (and she disappeared into the bathroom and shut the door.)

A nurse entered my room just as this woman went into the bathroom.  I cried out:  "Don't leave until nurse finishes with me."  But while nurse was working on me I saw the bathroom door open and this woman "snuck" out of my room.

I knew devils had been telling her lies.  I knew I could prove that to her.  But she left my room before I could tell her.

Jesus says;  He (the devil) was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.  John 8:44

The devil had convinced this woman that she didn't care about anyone or anything any more.

But she had a little dog that she really loved.

By that I could have shown her she had taken lies from devils into her heart and what they said to her just was not true.

(Weeks later she apologized and said she was sorry she just had no "charity" at all toward me.")

I knew devils had spoken to her in this and brought great fear to her.  She was afraid she would be stuck with caring for me after I was released from hospital and she was overwhelmed with this thought and couldn't do it.

But God had me move from Texas to Colorado to the home of Pam Padgett and she was in charge of helping me and even has a spiritual gift of "helps".

I also realized the vision I had of this woman disappearing from my room in the hospital was not a drug hallucination but was really an open vision from God showing me that which this woman was going to do.

(This woman is back again in our church group.)

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When I attended the singles class at Word of Faith Church which I once went to, the teacher of that group always said, at some point in the class, "Does anyone have a word from the Lord.  If so you are free to share that word."

God often gave me open visions concerning those in the Bible class and I always shared what God gave me.

Once the teacher who had his own Bible class on a Tuesday night invited me to speak to the class.

As he was leading the singing before the class, I began receiving from God open visions.  One vision after another came until there were so many I had to grab a piece of paper and jot them down so I would not forget them.  There were 23 open visions that night!

I don't recall speaking anything to the class except all those visions one at a time!

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