New Book Chapter 7 Attending church Joan Boney: Born again by God speaking to me by HIS Spirit

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On August 5, 1975,  God spoke to me by HIS Holy Spirit and said:  "Joan, you know these mistakes you've been making all these years.  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."

 

I was very shocked!

 

I was staying in the home of my best friend and her husband while recovering from an operation.  I walked passed Donna that morning and casually said, "Oh, by the way Donna, I don't think I've been a Christian until now."

 

She stopped what she was doing and called out to me, "Wait Joanie ... What did you just say?  ... Come back here."

 

I told her what had happened the night before when God spoke to me and how now I think I really am a Christian.

 

I thought I was a Christian because I had been baptized in water but now I really felt a change had happened inside me.  I could feel I was very different, although I couldn't explain exactly how I was different until later.

 

I Cor. 3:16   Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

 

Now I wanted to read the Bible!   I wanted to go to church and be with other Christians!   I no longer wanted to be around those people I had been around!   I just wanted to go to church.

 

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A month or so after this, I was asleep in the night and something happened.

 

I was "transported into heaven".  I knew I was with God and with Christ and with the Holy Spirit, although I saw no physical images.  It was a spiritual experience.  At that time, I was merged into the body of Jesus, made one with the Word of God,  God and Holy Spirit witnessing.

 

When I awoke, I was really on fire for the Bible and things of God.

 

Then a few nights later I was transported again into heaven and the exact same thing happened again as had happened the first time I was taken into heaven.

 

I didn't tell anyone about this for I thought this happened to all Christians after they were born again.

 

A few days after this, I was having breakfast with my young friend, Bill.  He was 10 years younger than I and Bill continually talked about being a Christian. 

 

(Before I was born again, I thought Bill was crazy. He was always talking about how great it was to be a Christian.  Bill had been Catholic before he was born again.)

 

To me, Bill had the same personality of a St. Bernard puppy.  He was intently eating his food when I said to him, "You're right about this thing of being a Christian.  What I like best about it is that thing that happens to you in the night."

 

Bill said, "What thing?"

 

I replied, "I don't know what it is called.  It is that thing where you are taken into heaven in the night and you are with God and Christ and the Holy Spirit."  

 

(I noticed Bill had dropped his fork into his plate and he had stopped eating and he was looking directly toward me!)

 

He said:  "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"

 

For the first time, I realized this experience with God didn't happen to every Christian.

 

I had been reading a book entitled, "The Exodus".  In that book the author said sometimes when you are called by God to do a work there will be an unusual experience given to you by God.

 

I did tell my best friend about this happening but she just sat and cried.  She was no help at all in finding out what had happened.

 

After that I just didn't mention this again to anyone.

 

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