Monday Feb 15, 2021
The faith movement churches: "Word of Faith"
Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ...
I was in the faith movement churches from 1977 to 1982. I loved it. Faith is one of my favorite subjects. But in 1979, God gave me a terrifying dream and by that God brought me out of that church group. This is the story of that which God showed me about the Faith Movement.
I love scripture. I love the Word of God by the Holy Spirit. Nothing is more exciting to me and nothing is as valuable to me on this present earth as is following God by HIS Spirit.
In 1975, I was born again. Immediately God began teaching me to meditate on scripture and to do those instructions of specific scriptures!
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law 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.
And God had taught me from the time I was born again to ask HIM for wisdom.
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
I was applying the above scripture to everything in my life ... and it worked greatly.
* When I read the Bible, I prayed for wisdom before reading and God was faithful to teaching me scriptures as I read. (I even wrote: "Pray for wisdom", on each book of the Bible so I wouldn't forget to do this.)
* I owned a small business in Dallas, and I was careful to pray for wisdom before I bought merchandise and in running the business and making decisions. (In the 4 years that I had the business after becoming a Christian and after learning to pray for wisdom, every item I bought for the business sold, and I never had a sale price to rid myself of unwanted items for everything sold.)
And God taught me the following scripture:
John 5:30 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.
I was quite sure that if Jesus, the Son of God, could do nothing without hearing from God, The Father, that I would not be able to do anything without hearing from God! So I prayed for wisdom and prayed for God to stop me if I was going the wrong way.
I really thought that is what all Christians were doing. I was wrong.
At one point, our Bible teacher at Word of Faith said to me, "You were never like the people at Word of Faith. They talked about faith but you lived faith."
On this Podcast, I will share some of those things God taught me about the Faith Movement churches.
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