Comments by Joan Boney:
Well over a year ago, God began showing me things about "enduring to the end" and how to endure with joy and gladness until HE takes me off the earth!
I shared this on blog for all the people of God to see and will repeat some of it now.
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First we learn to put around us things that make us smile, that we enjoy, creating our environment. Even if we add a small photo or stuffed animal, and it causes us to feel glad, that is good.
God already has the answer for all that will ever afflict us and we can know that God will never allow anything to come upon us that we can't overcome through HIM.
Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
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Several years ago, a young friend of mine got the disease, ALS and became totally paralyzed before dying.
I said to God, "I don't think I could endure what David has."
God reminded me of the scripture showing I wouldn't have to for I would not get more than I can handle. God would not allow this to happen.
I Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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💥 We are the body of Christ, elect of God, chosen by God, children of God: We cry out to God for help and HE hears us and helps us and we "overcome" by believing in God and doing what God shows us to do at that moment.
Revelation 3:5 Jesus says: He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels.
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💥 I was looking through a magazine and came across the photo of a desk and I gasped, thinking this desk was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen!
I said: "If I had an inch of space to put that desk in my bedroom, I'd buy it."
God said one word to me: "Closet"
I saw immediately that desk would fit into one side of my closet ... I bought it immediately from an artist in New York and they built it and shipped it to me in Colorado. (It took approximate 6 weeks for them to get the desk to me.)
God began showing me what to do to prepare for the desk.
* The closet doors had to be changed from bi-fold doors to sliding door.
I found some very interesting sliding doors on line and ordered them immediately.
We located a man who would install the doors and make the change when the doors arrived.
The doors have 4 frosted glass pannels which allow a lamp to shine through as a night light.
💥 Pam Padgett was able to put wallpaper inside the closet and trim the interior shelves with gold braid rope. We also used gold and black accent for side of existing shelves on interior of closet.
💥 The last thing brought to my mind was to get "doctoral type" gold braid that is used for doctoral level caps at Universities and glue that gold braid onto the existing closet clothes rod at the top.
(This was a fun project led by God each step of the way.)
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💥 Then God showed me to finish it off with some interesting ceramics made by MacKenzie Child (artist)
I have had this completed project in my bedroom and often do not even leave my bedroom to go into the other rooms of Pam's house. All my things are in one room just as was the case with the prophet Elisha.
2 Kings 4
8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
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As I grew older I broke my left-hip once again, in December, 2018.
I had a large house in Texas where I lived alone. God showed me the time was coming where I could no longer live alone. When I fell at my house in Texas and the ambulance worker rolled me past my front door to take me to the hospital, I heard these words from God: "You'll never see this house again."
So from the hospital, I put the Texas house up for-sale.
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I was in hospitals for 2 1/2 months, then in February, 2019, God moved me to the home of Pam Padgett in Colorado Springs, Colorado!
It was wonderful! Pam is a great woman of faith in God. She had demonstrated her faith to me many times and it was the same faith I had. It has been great living here since 2019. Pam came to Texas and got my 25 year old car and my Siamese cat and brought them to Colorado before I was released from the Hospital in Texas.
When we arrived at her house on February 24, 2019, and my cat saw me, "She looked at me as if to say: IS that really YOU?" (She ran to my bed and would hardly leave my side for weeks.)
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Here is a dream God gave to Pam several years before I moved here.
In this dream ... Pam was working serving food in a restaurant. Joan Boney was her supervisor.
Pam is a retired computer programmer.
In 2012, in a dream, God showed me to start a blog.
I called Pam Padgett immediately asking her if she could set up a blog for Jesus Ministries. (March 28, 2012)
Within 3 days, we were publishing.
As of today, we have had 1,777,601 downloads of Jesus Ministries Exhortation blog from all over this world.
This is the avenue God has given us to communicate with the elect of God all over this present earth.
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The iniquity of men of this present world show us we draw near to the coming of Jesus and the judgments of God through the Great Tribulation. Antichrist and all the apostasy in churches today also shows us the pending end of this world.
Peter says:
2 Peter 3
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
In verse 14, Peter tells the elect of God how to live until Jesus returns: in peace, without spot, and blameless.
We exhort the church as various people send scripture to share.
This is very important for as I exhort you and that keeps me going, you exhort everyone with scripture that is called to your attention by the Holy Spirit. This is your work on this earth which also helps you to endure to the end.
Hebrews 10
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which HE hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 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:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 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:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
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Jesus says:
Matthew 24
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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