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Comments by Beth Martin:

 

January 10, 2025

This scripture was impressed to me.

John 13:3-8

 
3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into HIS hands, and that HE was come from God, and went to God; 4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside HIS garments; and took a towel, and girded HIMSELF.
 

5 After that HE poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith HE was girded.
 

6 Then cometh HE to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto HIM, Lord, dost THOU wash my feet?
 

7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
 

8 Peter saith unto him, THOU shalt never wash my feet. 

 

Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with ME.

 

 

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Since this scripture stood out to me, I knew that I had something that needed washed. I asked God for wisdom....I heard nothing immediately.....sometime  later Joan posted information about becoming offended by others......and how it later affects our ability to to correctly hear........immediately I was reminded of the above scripture. I knew that this was what needed cleansed. I asked for wisdom and was reminded of specific instances when I was offended by words of others around me. 

 

I saw how this offense affected my perception of what this person said. 

 

I began to hear antidote scriptures and I began to pray to cleanse myself.... and I continue to pray as God shows me that there are still remains of the offense that needs to be purged.  

 

This has been a several day process. I am still actively washing myself with the WORD.

 

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Comments by Joan Boney:

 

I often pray this over myself:

 

Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 

God knows all truth and what I need and I find God often takes care of all the need immediately and recreates me perfectly in the issue.

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Philemon 1:6  That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

 

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 (Pam Padgett) ... In approximately 1984 while sitting at a non-denominational church waiting for the service to begin, the following was brought to my mind:  "What are you doing here?  I told you to get out.  Now get out."   

 

I was stunned.  "Could this possibly be God?" I asked myself.  "The preacher read and taught from the Bible.  Surely this thought couldn't be from God, could it?"

 

When I got home and talked with God about what I had heard, I became convinced it was God telling me to leave that church.  I asked when HE had previously told me to "get out", and was reminded of a dream Joan Boney had shared with us in which poisonous gas was coming through the speaker which should be warning the people and was killing the people.  

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Poisonous gas dream, given to Joan Boney in 1979:

 

Destruction was everywhere.

In this dream, a meeting was going on. A man was speaking to a room filled with people. I went in and began to listen.

A second man rushed into the room and said: "Stop ... Wait ... Can't you see ... It's too late ... It's already begun."

The first man resumed speaking.

I looked out the window to see what had "already begun."

There was a tall pole with a yellow civil defense speaker at top of the pole. A gas was coming out of the speaker. I knew it was poisonous and would kill the people. It was coming directly toward us!

The shocking thing was the speaker that was set there for the purpose of warning us was being used as the instrument which dispersed the gas that was poison and would kill us!

I looked at the man seated next to me. He had a big grin on his face and was looking directly at the man who was speaking to the group. But then I saw this man was a corpse, though he looked alive. He was already dead!

I looked about the room at the other people and realized they were all dead.

As I sat back in my chair and listened to the man speaking I began to feel sleepy and I knew as I sat there among them this was killing me too.

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Although the preacher at the non-denominational church I was attending taught many things from the Bible, this church allowed divorced women to re-marry, contrary to various scriptures in the New Testament. This church was, in fact, anti-christ.   

 

I left that church group.

Matthew 5:32  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Romans 7:2-3  For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

I Corinthians 7:10-11 Paul said ... And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

 

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 (Comments by Joan Boney)  

 

As a new Christian, God spoke to me several times to instruct me.  Always it was in the form of a thought brought to my mind.  Here are some of them.

I owned a small business in American Indian Arts in Dallas, Texas, at that time in the 1970's.

A young woman, approximately 20 years old, filed a law suit against me and took me to US court in a trial.  I heard what I believed to be a word from God.  "Don't testify." I told my lawyer he might not want to represent me because I believed God had spoken to me and told me, "Don't testify."  

He said they would continue to represent me.  Flo who worked for me witnessed the incident and he thought her testimony would be enough for us to win the case.

But Flo was very angry with me because I was not going to testify.  She said, "Since you aren't testifying, all the pressure of the trial will now be on me!"

 

I replied, "What can I do.  I believe God has told me not to testify so I can't testify."

 

(Flo was not appeased with my explanation.)

Then, the man I was dating at that time said, "Joan ... you aren't doing that girl any good by not testifying." I told him I wasn't trying to do her any good.  I believed God spoke to me telling me "Don't testify," and I was just trying to obey what I believed God said to me.

 

I had no idea that everyone on my own side was going to be against me for doing the word which I believed to be from God.  (I was very naive at that time and didn't know much scripture.)   Matthew 10:36    And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. 

 

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(This turned into a 2 day trial at US courthouse.)

My lawyer came to me at one point and said Flo's testimony didn't go as well as he thought it would but if I would testify he knew we would win the case. (Without my testimony he said he didn't know what would happen to me.)

I replied, "I'll see." and I left the courtroom and went into the ladies room and began praying, "God, what do YOU want me to do about this court case."

Immediately the words, "Don't testify." came into my mind.

I went back into the courthouse.  My lawyer was watching for me to come back and I just shook my head, "No".  After that I heard no more on the subject.

The second day, the judge ordered us to product a bill of sale concerning the purchase.  When we did, the judge looked at it and said, "Case dismissed.  Defendant acquitted."

 

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Like in the case of Abraham, God was testing me to see if I would obey HIM.

Genesis 22

1  And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

2 And HE said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

(What I went through was not nearly the serious level test of Abraham but it was a very serious test to me as a new Christian who didn't know much at all!)

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💥 Flesh strives against spirit.

The child of the promise was Isaac.  The child created by the flesh in the normal was was Ishmael.

They could not grow up together.

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God's promise to Abraham:

 

Genesis 12

 

1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

 

Sarah was barren.  She had no child.

 

But God had promised Abraham he would be the father of many nations.  How can this be when Abraham has no child?

 

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There was to be a child of the flesh and a child of the promise.

 

Ishamel was the child of the flesh, born in natural ways to Abraham after he had sex with Sarah's handmaid, Hagar.

 

Genesis 16 

 

 1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress (Sarai/Sarah) was despised in her eyes.

5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she (Hagar) fled from her face.

7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 

So Hagar returned to Abram and Sarai.

 

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Genesis 17

1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before ME, and be thou perfect.  2 And I will make MY covenant between ME and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 

Genesis 18

1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he (Abraham) sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,  3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:  4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:  5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant.

 

And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.  8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he (Abraham) said, Behold, in the tent.

10 And he (the angel speaking words of God) said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

 

(This son will be the child of the promise of God, for God has promised the child will be born to Abraham and Sarah.)

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And HE said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

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Genesis 21

1 And the LORD visited Sarah as HE had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as HE had spoken.

2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.  (This is the child of the promise of God for God made it happen.)

4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

 

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Thus we have 2 children:  The child of the natural flesh ... and the child of the promise of God, born of the promise.

I Corinthians 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

 

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And today we have church members born of the flesh, doing the things of the flesh of man in order to be in the church and called "Christians."

And we have church members born of the call of God and the will of God by the Holy Spirit of God living by faith in God.

And often they sit together at church but there is no real understanding between them.

The child of the flesh is born by the will of man and is always a little off.  He is like Ishmael.  Born by the will of man and the rules set up by man by his own flesh.

The other is like Isaac, born of the Holy Spirit and will of God, living by faith in God.

Can they function together, sitting at church together.   

 

Not really. For one is spirit and the other flesh.

 

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Paul describes it as follows:

 

Romans 9  (Paul says)

 

1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.

10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of HIM that calleth;)

12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew MY power in thee, and that MY name might be declared throughout all the earth.

18 Therefore hath HE mercy on whom HE will have mercy, and whom HE will HE hardeneth.

19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted HIS will?

20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

22 What if God, willing to shew HIS wrath, and to make HIS power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

23 And that HE might make known the riches of HIS glory on the vessels of mercy, which HE had afore prepared unto glory,

24 Even us, whom HE hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

25 As HE saith also in Osee, I will call them MY people, which were not MY people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not MY people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

28 For HE will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on HIM shall not be ashamed.

 

 

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💥 God leads them by the pillar of the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.

 

Exodus 30

 

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is Mine.

3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.

5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which HE sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.

7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.

10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as HE sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S.

13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.

14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:

15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.

16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

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20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

 

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Today:  New Testament Church:  We are given the Holy Spirit who dwells in us and leads us in the way of God day and night, bringing the Word of God to our mind that we know what to do on this earth.

 

John 14:26  (Jesus said)  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 16:13  Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.

 

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Returning to Exodus 30

22 HE (God) took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

 

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With the New Testament Church, the Holy Spirit is in each of us day and night when we are born of God.

 

Romans 8:14   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

We who are born of the Spirit of God are the children of the promise, even the children of Abraham.  Romans 9

The Holy Spirit guides us in the way of God and teaches us all things.

 

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I Can Of Mine Own Self Do Nothing

Jesus said … I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.  Jn. 5:30

Jesus heard from God. Jesus, the Son of God, the creator of all things, said HE could do nothing, except what HE heard from God.

The same is true for us today.

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.  Jn. 6:63

Jesus speaks to us today by HIS Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth.

Until we hear what God has to say by HIS Spirit, we can do nothing.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.   

Romans 8:14

 

 

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Scriptures:

1 Thessalonians 5:12-13  And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves. 

 

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Romans 8:24,25  For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

 

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 Romans 8:13-14   For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

 

 

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Acts 12 (Reading through the Bible)

 

 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.

² And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

³ And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)

⁴ And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

⁵ Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

⁶ And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

⁷ And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

⁸ And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals.

And so he did.

And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.

⁹ And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.

¹⁰ When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.

¹¹ And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent His angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

¹² And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.

¹³ And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.

¹⁴ And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.

¹⁵ And they said unto her, Thou art mad. 

But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. 

Then said they, It is his angel.

¹⁶ But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.

¹⁷ But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison.

 And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.


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¹⁸ Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.

¹⁹ And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. 

And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.

²⁰ And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.

²¹ And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.

²² And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

²⁴ But the word of God grew and multiplied.

²⁵ And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.

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💥 Hymn: I'm pressing on the upward way

Click here to hear music for this hymn:  I'm pressing on the upward way


1.  I’m pressing on the upward way, 
New heights I’m gaining every day;
Still praying as I onward bound,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.

Chorus:

Lord, lift me up, and let me stand

By faith on Heaven's tableland;

A higher plane than I have found,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.


2.  My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where these abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground. 

3.  I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.

4.   I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till rest I’ve found,
Lord, lead me on to higher ground.

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💥 Classical Music: * Vivaldi Four Seasons: Summer

 

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💥 Prosper and have good success in all that you do: What the Bible says.

Comments by Joan Boney:

 

As a new Christian, in 1975, God showed me by the Bible how to prosper and have good success in all that we do on this earth.

 

Joshua 1:8  This book of the law (The Holy Bible) shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.  

Another scripture telling us the same thing:

Psalm 1

 

1  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in HIS law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

 

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I believed these two sections of scripture, and because I believed, I began doing verses of scripture immediately.

 

For the past 50 years, I have been doing various scriptures from both Old and New Testaments. 

 

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I believe the first scripture I did was Romans 13:8  ... Owe no man anything ... 

 

I felt God saying to me:  "Get out of debt ... and stay out of debt."

 

I'm sure I was out of debt within a few months.  Once we set our hearts to do a scripture, God helps us do that scripture...

 

I never went into debt for anything after that.  I didn't take out a mortgage.  I paid rent until God made it possible for me to build 2 small apartments on a lot owned by my parents in Clovis, New Mexico, USA.

 

It turned out there was a lot of noise in that area of the town.  I was unhappy there.  So I began looking for another lot in a quieter part of Clovis.  I found what I wanted on a golf course.  I could purchase a lot for $13,700.  I had saved sufficient money to pay cash for the lot.  Five years later, I had accumulated enough money through the sale of the apartment and money left to me by my dad, to build a house on the lot.  The house cost $120,000 and I paid cash for that in 1990.  When my mother died in 2002, I sold that house for $227,000 and built a house in Lubbock, Texas, and paid cash for that house.  

 

I never tried to make money.  I just kept following verses of scripture and had success in all that I did.   Just like the scripture said I would in Joshua 1:8 and Psalm 1.

 

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When I got too old to live alone, God worked it out for me to live in the home of another person of faith, Pam Padgett, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

 

Pam does all the technical work for the ministry:  blog, books on Amazon, podcasts 

At the time of this writing, I am 87-years-old.

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Though it is in the Old Testament, I have found Deuteronomy 28 to work for new testament Christians who do what the scripture says day by day.

Deuteronomy 28

1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all HIS commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and HE shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto Himself, as HE hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in HIS ways.

10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

12 The LORD shall open unto thee HIS good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in His season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

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💥 Sandra Chupik: Scripture to live on to modify behaviour

From Joan Boney:

  (Comments by Joan Boney:  This is a "follow-up" letter after I spent multiple days and many hours on phone counseling Sandra Chupik on spiritual matters.)

Based on those things that came forth during these multiple session, here are scriptures to live on to change behavior making it fit Bible.
 

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Sandra:
 
I really was a little sad and grieved over you yesterday. But of course glad to finally establish you really are born again. (by radio story which you told me)
 

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I'm concerned over your display of failure to recognize when devil is speaking and when God is speaking.

💥  John 10  Jesus says: And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

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Voice of God:  

💥John 10:4-5 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

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Matthew 11:28-30  Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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Galatians 5:19-21  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance:

 

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John 10:7-10   Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I (The Word) am the door of the sheep. 8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I (The Word) am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I (The Word) am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

 

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 John 10:7-10   Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.9 I (The Word) am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I (The Word) am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

 

 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any (man or thing) pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

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 Voice of devil:  

John 8:32-47  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me (The Word): for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He 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. 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Galatians 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; *Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 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.

* Look up definition of each of these words.  vv. 19-21

James 3:14-16 But if ye have bitter *envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

* Look up envy and strife:  Pay attention to see if either is in your life or has been in your life in past.

Pray Psalm 51:10 for healing.

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Your rush to be righteous is "killing you".  Let your way be established by God bringing thoughts to establish previous thoughts.

Proverbs 4:4-27

4 HE taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain MY words: keep MY commandments, and live.

5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of MY mouth.

6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

10 Hear, O My son, and receive My sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

20 My son, attend to MY words; incline thine ear unto MY sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

Define: froward and perverse

25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

(Look up the word: established and think on this, how to apply it to your life.)

27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

 

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Speed reading through the Bible and Blog will avail nothing and will even damn you according to I Corinthians 11:29.  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 

 28 But let a man examine himself (by the scriptures), and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

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We must carefully take each concept, see if we are doing that in our life, and if not, start applying scripture daily to our life making scripture live in us by doing it .
 
James 1
 
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
 
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
 
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
 

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💥  Go forward by taking the most recent scripture you feel the Holy Spirit has given you and meditate on it and do it.
 
An example:  For several months I've been structuring my life on "live in peace, without spot and blameless." 2 Peter 3:14
 

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Stop speaking those things devil tells you.
 
Speak truth ... even on the number of times you were divorced. It is misleading to say you are a divorced woman when you are a twice divorced woman. You must learn to speak truth and not yield to deception, speaking hypocrisy.

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You do have a few things to build on. Radio story shows God leading you and giving you joy over truth.  (born again/changed)
 
Doing what God showed you in dream, in bringing Dilly and coming to church meeting in Colorado.
 

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Focus on the good, not the evil ... and above all bridle your tongue and stop speaking things that discourage another Christian as you did with me.
 
James 1:26   If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Hebrews 10:23-24  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for HE is faithful that promised;)  24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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Build on doing right using the examples of your doing wrong to correct yourself.
 
I want things to begin to go right way, way of God!  (turn the car around)
 
Love, Joan
 

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Each of us must judge ourselves properly and correct our way correctly by truth of God.

I Corinthians 11  (eating and drinking the scriptures, the Word of God, properly)

27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread (The scriptures), and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

28 But let a man examine himself (by the scriptures), and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. (examining himself by the scriptures)

29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep (die).

31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
 

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💥 #4. Sharing words given us by God: What has God said to you?

   

 

 

Send by email:

joanboney37@gmail.com

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Philemon 1:6  That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

 

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(Sandra Chupik) ... In 1980, I heard Joan Boney speaking on the radio in Houston, Texas, on my way to work one day. After that I would listen every morning. Sometimes I would pull my car onto a side street so I wouldn't miss anything. 

 

In 1980, she spoke about divorce and remarriage. I was divorced twice, and she was speaking things I had never heard spoken at church before. I obeyed those scriptures, stopped dating, knowing that I could never remarry, and experienced great joy. For months, I couldn't stop talking about these scriptures. Everyone at work knew something had happened to me and there was a difference in me.

EZEKIEL 36:23  And I will sanctify MY great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the LORD God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.  

(Born again)

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(Pam Padgett) ... During the last months of college I rented a room in the home of a woman I had met in the singles group at the church I attended at the time.  She had been divorced twice and had a young daughter.  At first she seemed content to remain single and raise her daughter.  But then she began to look for another husband.  

 

I spoke with her and shared scriptures with her warning that she would commit adultery if she remarried.  It was a big shock when she replied "I don't care what the Bible says.  I know what I believe." 

 

Romans 7:2-3  For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 

So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

I Corinthians 7:10-11 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

 

I Corinthians 7:39  The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

 

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I moved from her house shortly after this to a town about 30 minutes from where this church group met.  Although I no longer attended the singles group meetings, I still attended the Sunday morning service and sat with those in the singles group, visiting with them before and after the service.

Someone told me this Twice divorced woman had become engaged to marry a man who also attended the singles group.  

 

I went to him and shared scripture warning of the adultery that would be committed if he married this twice divorced woman. He said he would consider these things, but he didn't stop the wedding plans.  

 

Matthew 5:32   But I (Jesus) say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

 

Then I heard that another woman I knew from the singles group was going to be maid of honor at this wedding.  

 

I went to her and shared scripture warning of the adultery that would be committed by this marriage.  She  said she knew this was wrong but that they would get married anyway, so she was going to be maid of honor.  

I Timothy 5:22 ... neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

Shortly after talking with each of these people, one Sunday morning I got to the church a little early and sat in the area where those in the singles group sat, but none of the singles came to sit in that area.  As the service was about to begin, I turned and saw that those in the singles group were sitting in an area behind me.  

The next Sunday morning I sat in what I thought was the "new" singles group area, but those in the singles group sat in the "old" area.

The following Sunday morning I got to the church building shortly before the service began.  I went to where those in the singles group were sitting and sat down.  

Without saying a word, they got up and moved away from me to sit another area of the church auditorium.  It was obvious to me that those in the singles group did not want to associate with me, but I didn't know why. 

I cried out to God, asking what was going on?  Had I done something wrong? 

A few weeks later a woman I didn't know very well came to me after the Sunday morning service.  

 

She said she had a word from God for me.

 

The word she delivered was that God knew how those in the singles group were treating me, and that I needed to know it was because I had spoken to the various people involved in this wedding, and that this is what HE (God) had wanted me to do. 

 

It was so comforting to receive this word, for I then knew why this had happened and that I had done what was right in the sight of God. 

 

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 (Please send us words God has given you:  email:  joanboney37@gmail.com)

 

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