Building your house on the word from God

Rid yourself of fear when it comes to your mind. Fear is usually not of God.

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Fear is usually from our own flesh or from devils.
 
We hear many fearful things on TV newscasts. Often these predict a future rise in prices.  Fear comes as a result unless we deal with such immediately in prayer, allowing God to settle us.
 
Devils can also send fearful thoughts to our minds.
 
Fear is usually not from God.
 
We learn to take fearful thoughts to God in prayer quickly and to establish truth through that which God gives us.
 
For example:
 
* When they began to fight in Ukraine, concern came to me.  But the Holy Spirit reminded me of that which Jesus said:  "There will be wars and rumors of wars.  Let not your heart be troubled!"
 
So I agreed and replaced my faith in God who works all things according to HIS plan.
 
I began praying for God to help us.
 
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* When they spoke of The National Debt in USA and what "might" happen as a result:  cuts in social security; reduction in medical benefits; 
 
The Holy Spirit reminded me of this scripture: 
 
I Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
 
If we trust in that which we have now, given by men of governments, we live in danger.
 
Our trust must be in the living God.
 
So we pray to God over each fear that comes to mind.
 
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2 Timothy 1:7  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
 
Where does fear come from?  Usually from listening to the newscasts and from other humans and by taking in thoughts from devils.
 
In each case, we must pray to God, putting our trust in God through prayer.
 
Philippians 4:6-7
 
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
 
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
 
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2 Corinthians 7:1  Having therefore these promises, (of God), dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
 
2 Peter 1:2-4
 
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord (The Word),
 
3 According as HIS divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of HIM that hath called us to glory and virtue:
 
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
 
Which promises of God do you trust in?  List some of these promises which cause you to have peace in troubled times.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

The power of God given to HIS children

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
I Thessalonians 1:5
 
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance;
 
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In 1975, when I was born again, I owned a small business in Dallas, Texas, in American Indian Arts.
 
In approximately 1976, a man came into my store.  I noticed him because he was wearing a tie clasp shaped in the form of handcuffs. He introduced himself to me as deputy sheriff, and said to me, "Little lady, do you know a man named Clutter?"  I replied, "No sir."  He said, "Well he knows you.  He is suing you for one-million-dollars."  And he handed me some court documents and left the store.
 
I was shocked! 
 
I probably had an inventory of 2 or 3 thousand dollars in merchandise at that time.  I had no personal money.  I lived in an apartment that rented for $180 per month.  And I drove an old car!
 
It was a ridiculous situation which I had trouble seriously considering.  I threw the court papers on a shelf and walked away, hardly thinking of this happening.
 
But in a few days I realized that if I didn't respond to these proceedings, this man might be able to get a judgment against me and take the small amount of merchandise that I did have and put me out of business.
 
So I hired a lawyer to represent me.
 
The lawyer met with me a few times and a bill came for $3000.  I paid that bill.  Then he did something else and another bill came and I barely had enough to pay that bill, but I did pay it.
 
God had worked with me to get me out of debt in a miraculous way.  At the rate I was going with the lawyer, it wouldn't be long before I would have to borrow money to pay for the legal bills.  I was certain this was not God's way for me!  I began praying for God to help me.
 
One day, while reading the Bible a verse of scripture stood out to me.
 
Isaiah 54:17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of ME, saith the LORD.
 
I began thinking about this.
 
💥  This is a promise of God to HIS Children!  I am now one of God's children.  So this promise from God would apply to me!
 
💥  "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper;"
 
This law suit was definitely a weapon formed against me!
 
As a child of God, this weapon could not prosper against me!
 
💥  and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.  (another promise from the Bible)
 
Here is another scripture which fits what I am about to do.
 
Jesus says:  (to His disciples)
 
Luke 21:15  For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
 
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God had also been teaching me to live by the following scripture:
 
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.
 
(I had been doing these instructions, meditating on specific scripture day and night, for several months, ever since I saw this instruction.  The promise attached to doing this:  "for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success!"  I was sure this promise from God applied to me!)
 
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As I continued to think on these scriptures, I was convinced this law suit could not prosper against me.
 
So why am I paying all this money to a lawyer to represent me?  I can just go to court and speak for myself!
 
I decided to dismiss my lawyer and go to court without any human representation.
 
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(As a new Christian at that time, I decided to make an appointment with my pastor and tell him what I was going to do.)
 
Enroute to the meeting with pastor, I prayed for God to give pastor 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.
 
(another promise of God to HIS people.)
 
After I explained the situation and the scriptural basis for my decision, pastor said:  "Joan ... I perceive that you have faith to do this this way."
 
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I called my lawyer immediately.
 
I shared the scripture in Isaiah with the lawyer.  I told him either the Bible is true, or it is just an history book telling about God, and this was a good time to test the Bible to see.  If it was simply a history book about God, I wanted no more to do with the Bible. 
 
But if the Bible was true, it would have power for us who believe, and no weapon would prosper against me, just as this promise from the Bible says.
 
The lawyer was very shocked and said, "Joan ... you can't do this!  You don't realize how evil these courts are today."
 
(But I was sure what God promised HE would do and could do for us.)
 
Gordon, my lawyer, said, "Joan ... we are willing to work with you.  It will only take about $10,000 more to try your case."
 
"$10,000 MORE to try my case?"  I shouted!
 
"Gordon ... Stop ... don't do anything else ... no paper work ... no more phone calls!"
 
When he left my shop it was settled.  The law firm was dismissed from my case.  I would go to court without any human legal counsel.
 
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About 2 weeks later, Gordon came back to my shop.  He said, "We have decided to try your case without any further charge to you."
 
What is going on? I wondered.
 
One week the legal service will cost me $10,000 more and two weeks later it will be "free" no cost to me!
 
(I didn't hear Gordon mention God in his statement.  So I didn't think God sent him with this free legal service.)
 
I said,  "I'm just going to have to get back with you on this."
 
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I began praying, asking God what HE wanted me to do.
 
And immediately the following scripture was called to my mind:
 
Genesis 14
 
21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
 
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
 
23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
 
(I knew by this God was telling me:  Don't take the free legal service.)
 
And I said to God:  "I want to be like Abraham.  I want my provision to come from YOU and not from this world."
 
(From that day to this present day, I have continued to live in this concept, not desiring wealth or things from this world but rather wanting only that which God would provide for me!)
 
It was very important to me to live this way.
 
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Of course I was afraid!  (The court trial was scheduled 6 weeks after this.)
 
To help me, God would remind me of scripture and I would take those verses which God gave me and write them down and keep them before me day and night to strengthen me.  I recorded them on both sides of the tape and played that tape when I went to bed at night. When I awoke in the night I could turn the tape over and play it again.  I would fall asleep to the scriptures.  There were about 14 verses.
 
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Six days before the scheduled court trial, I received a phone call from the attorney of the man who filed the law suit against me.  There were several dealers of Indian arts attached to the suit, along with the Better Business Bureaus of Dallas and Fort Worth.  He was charging us with a conspiracy to keep him from doing business in Dallas where he rented a motel room and sold Indian jewelry at 70% discount, according to him.
 
His lawyer said, "Since you don't have a lawyer, I'm calling to tell you that our client dropped all charges and there will be no court appearance."  I asked, "Did he drop the charges against everyone?"
 
The lawyer said, "He cut everyone loose.  We tried to get him not to file charges against you because he had no legitimate charges but he was like a madman and wouldn't listen to us."
 
It was over!
 
A week or so later, Gordon, my former lawyer came to my shop.  He said, "I just wanted to tell you that we have often discussed your case at the law firm and I wanted to let you know that we believe what you said would happen, happened!"
 
Isaiah 54:17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of ME, saith the LORD.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Our names in the book of life

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Jesus says:
 
Revelation 3:5  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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We see by this scripture that our name could be blotted out of the book of life.
 
This motivates us to "overcome" everything in this life through the Word of God.
 
We turn to God in the problem asking God to give us wisdom to deal with the problem.
 
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. 
 
And by faith in that revealed by God and thereby doing that which God shows us, we overcome.
 
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Do not deceive yourself into thinking you can continue to live in sin after you are born again and enter into the kingdom of heaven.
 
Paul tells us:
 
I Corinthians 6:9-10
 
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
 
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

At the end of this present heaven and earth

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Jesus will return to gather His church to take them to the new heaven and new earth created by God for them.
 
Revelation 21:1-5  (God showed this to the apostle John)
 
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
 
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
 
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.
 
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
 
5 And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
 
There will be only righteousness in the new heaven and new earth.
 
Revelation 21:27  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
 
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For decades church groups have debated:  Will Christians go through the great tribulation at the end of this world?
 
Jesus answers this question:
 
Matthew 24:21-22
 
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
 
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
 
Some of the elect of God, Christians, will be on this earth during the great tribulation.
 
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Luke 21  (Jesus says)
 
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
 
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
 
(The earth is currently kept in the solar system by the Word of God.  But the time will come when God will speak and the powers of heaven shall be shaken.  Here is a dream God gave me showing this event.  The earth slipped on it's axis.  People were terrified.  The governments of men were meeting with scientists and religious leaders to see what could be done.  Nothing can be done for it is of God.  A TV newsman was trying to report this story.  But he became so frightened that he couldn't talk knowing this would affect him also.  So he just got up and walked off camera.)
 
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Isaiah 13:13  God says:  Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
 
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Matthew 24  (Jesus says)
 
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.
 
(They "mourn" when they see Jesus coming for they know it is all over for them.  All their reputations among men of this world will end and only God and Jesus will matter.  Their possessions will be destroyed.  Gold and silver will be worthless.  And at the end God will destroy heaven and earth.)
 
31 And HE (Jesus) 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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Jesus will raise the dead in Christ and the elect of God will be removed from this present earth and all will meet "in the air" and will be taken to the new heaven and earth wherein dwelleth only righteousness.
 
These earthly bodies will not be taken into heaven.  We will be given new spiritual bodies.
 
I  Corinthians 15
 
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
 
(God is a Spirit.  We will be raised as spiritual bodies.)
 
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
 
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,
 
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
 
(Blink:  that is how fast we will be changed from these earthly bodies to our new spiritual bodies before we are taken into heaven.)
 
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
 
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Concerning the dead in Christ:  Paul says:
 
I Thessalonians 4
 
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
 
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.
 
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep (dead).
 
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
 
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
 
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God will destroy this current heaven and earth with fire.
 
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.
 
(One day as I was reading this God said to me:  "You will never make this present earth righteousness no matter what you do.  It is the new heaven and the 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.
 
(From now to the return of Jesus we must focus on living in peace and being without spot and blameless.  No one knows the day and hour of Jesus' return, therefore we must be diligent daily to live in peace, without spot, and blameless because if Jesus returns and finds us debating and arguing and having spots from previous unsettled problems and blamed, we may suffer great loss.)
 
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Luke 21  (Jesus says)
 
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but MY words shall not pass away.
 
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (over indulgence), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
 
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
 
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
 
(Prayer over all problems and concerns makes us connects us to God and makes us "worth to escape" all these things coming upon this earth.)
 
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Philippians 4:6-7
 
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
 
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (The Word).
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

We are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus The Word, unto good works

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Philippians 1
 
Paul says:
 
6 Being confident of this very thing, that HE which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
 
(God who began a good work in us and revealed Jesus Christ, The Word, to us will perform in us that work to the end when Jesus returns to gather the church.)
 
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
 
10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
 
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ (The Word of God), unto the glory and praise of God.
 
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Ephesians 2
 
1 And you hath HE quickened (made alive), who were dead in trespasses and sins;
 
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
 
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation (manner of life) in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
 
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for HIS great love wherewith HE loved us,
 
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
 
(We were dead with the world, living as the world, but God chose us not because we were good or worthy but just because it was HIS will that we be saved, raised from the dead of this world and put into the body of Christ as HIS own children.)
 
6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
 
7 That in the ages to come HE might shew the exceeding riches of HIS grace in HIS kindness toward us through Christ Jesus (The Word).
 
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
 
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
 
10 For we are HIS workmanship, created in Christ Jesus (The Word) unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
 
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God creates each of us to do HIS will and HIS work.
 
God gave Pam Padgett the spiritual gift of "helps" so she could do the technical computer work so we could publish ministry blog, books (Amazon), and Podcasts, to send spiritual exhortations to the body of Christ daily around the entire world.
 
I Corinthians 12  (Spiritual gifts)
 
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
 
28 And God hath set some in the church (to work in the church), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
 
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God set me in the body of Christ and ordained me as apostle and prophet according to Ephesians 4:11-12.
 
Ephesians 4:8; 11-12  Wherefore  HE (Jesus) saith, When HE ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.  And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
 
(The New Testament Church and all the ministry offices are gifts given to the church after Jesus arose, after the crucifixion and resurrection.  And from heaven Jesus calls each member of the body of Christ to be children of God.  And Jesus teaches each of us by HIS Holy Spirit who lives in each of us.  He brings to our mind the Word of God and teaches us all things and even guides us into all truth.)
 
John 14:26  (Jesus says)  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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To some God gave families and prepared husbands and wives to do HIS will on this earth as they are lights to their own children and neighbors in the word of God.  You are HIS workmanship.  Placed to do HIS will on this earth.
 
Do not try to copy another but depend at all times for God to prepare you for that which you have been assigned by God, following the Holy Spirit of God, doing that which God has placed in your mind and in your heart.
 
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Jesus says:
 
John 15:16  Ye have not chosen ME, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in MY name, HE may give it you.
 
I was following my own ambitions and desires when God spoke to me on August 5, 1975, and said.  "Joan ... you know all these mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."
 
I was greatly shocked as the apostle Paul was shocked when Jesus spoke to HIM on the road to Damascus.
 
Acts 9  (Jesus speaks to Paul)
 
3 And as he (Saul, later named Paul) journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
 
4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME?
 
5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
 
6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt THOU have me to do?
 
And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
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God speaks directly to our minds also and causes us to be born again by HIS Word.
 
With this word God spoke to me in 1975, HE caused me to be born again, made into a new creature, instantly changed from that person I had been.
 
2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
 
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Our bodies look the same to humans that we have been friends with in the world, but inside, after God speaks to us, we are no longer as we once were.  We now have a new heart and a new spirit given to us by God.
 
Ezekiel 36:23-27  God says:
 
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. 
 
(They will see you are different.)
 
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
 
(After I was born again, I no longer wanted to be with the worldly people that I had been with.  Now I wanted to be with children of God.  I wanted to read the Bible.  I wanted to hear about God.)
 
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
 
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
 
27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.
 
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A few nights after I was born again in 1975, I was transported into heaven as I slept in the night.
 
I was with God and with Christ, and with the Holy Spirit. 
(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 the Holy Spirit witnessing.
 
A few nights after that, the exact same thing happened to me a second time.
 
I believe at that time of being made one with the Word of God, I was ordained into the 2 ministry offices to which I was placed by God in the body of Christ, apostle and prophet.  And it was God who taught me the work of the ministry in these two offices.  The Holy Spirit led me through the Bible, taking me from scripture to scripture, teaching me, for the next 5 years.
 
When it was time for me to do ministry work as apostle and prophet, I was asleep in the night on January 10, 1980, when a trumpet-like voice spoke 3 words into my ear.  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"
 
(I believe that voice that spoke to me was an angel of God carrying to me a message from God.)
 
I jumped out of bed, and wrote the
letters "KWJS" on a note pad, not wanting to get these letters mixed up because I felt immediately they were call letters to either radio or television.
 
When I found these letters to be a radio station I spoke to God and said:  "Are YOU telling me to go on radio?  I wouldn't know how to do that."
 
The Holy Spirit brought to my mind:  "Call the radio station manager." 
(Which I did that same morning.)
 
I told the station manager God might be showing me to go on radio.  And I asked, "How would you do that?"
 
The station manager said:  "Make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to me and if you fit our broadcasting we will offer you a contract."
 
I recorded a tape that same morning and mailed it to the station manager and within 5 days I was on KWJS exhorting the church.
 
We are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus, "The Word" that comes down to us from heaven.
 
Our assignments differ, but God is the author.  And HE puts us into the body of Christ and does as HE wills with us.  We simply do what we believe God has told us to do.
 
Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Jesus, The Word, is the head of the body, the church

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Psalm 111:10  The fear of the LORD (The Word) is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do HIS commandments: HIS praise endureth for ever.
 
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The doctrine of Christ for the New Testament church is the New Testament Bible.
 
Some churches fail to follow some of the verses of scripture and they change those scriptures and set up doctrines opposite from the Bible. 
 
This is antichrist in the church group.
 
Jesus will destroy these church groups of the apostasy of the end time who fail to love the Holy Scriptures and go in an opposite direction from the scripture.
 
For example:  Jesus said in 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.
 
* The man who divorces a faithful wife causes her to commit adultery if she remarries after divorce.
 
* There is only one scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife and that is if she is unfaithful to him.
 
* The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
 
This is the doctrine of Christ for the New Testament church.
 
If the church has a love of the Word of God, they will abide by this doctrine of Christ which is presented in the New Testament Bible.
 
If they fail to do this doctrine of Christ, they open the door for antichrist to come into the church and they become one of the churches of the end time, an apostate church.
 
2 Thessalonians 2  (Paul says)
 
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 
In 1982, I was reading this scripture and God said to me:  "The falling away are not people leaving the churches.  The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."
 
Jesus will destroy the apostate churches when HE returns to gather the elect, because they failed to have a love of the truth of the scriptures that they might be saved.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
 
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:
 
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
 
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
 
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
 
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2 Timothy 3
 
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
 
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
 
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
 
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
 
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
 
(When you see a church where they teach some verses opposite to the New Testament Bible, leave those churches, or people.  Just turn away from them.  Love the scripture more than your church group.)
 
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
 
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
 
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
 
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
 
(The apostasy in the church will grow every decade until the return of Jesus.)
 
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2 Timothy 3
 
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;  (It is God who teaches us scripture.)
 
15 (To Timothy Paul says:)  And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
 
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
 
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

The Great Tribulation:

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
On this podcast, I will be reading several sections of scripture on the recording.
 
If you wish to follow along in the Bible with what I read aloud, here are those scriptures.
 
💥  Matthew 24:21-22
 
💥  Revelation 8:1-13
 
💥  Revelation 9:1-21
 
💥  Revelation 10:1-7
 
💥  Revelation 14:9-12
 
💥  Revelation 14:13-20
 
💥  Revelation 15:1-8
 
💥  Revelation 16:1-21
 
💥  Revelation 18:1-24
 
💥  Revelation 19:1-7
 
💥  Revelation 19:11-21
 
💥  Revelation 20:1-15
 
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Revelation 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
 
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Other scriptures on this Podcast:
 
💥  Concerning antichrist in today's churches and the apostate churches today before Jesus returns to gather the elect of God:
 
2 Thessalonians 2
 
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 
In 1982, I was reading this scripture, when God said to me:  "The falling away are not people leaving the churches.  The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."
 
(Jesus will destroy the apostate churches and those people who fail to have a love of the scriptures that they may be saved.)
 
8-12  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:  9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
 
💥  Divorce and remarriage: 
 
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.
 
* There is only one scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife and that is if his wife is "unfaithful" to him.
 
*  If the wife is faithful and remarries after he divorces her, she will commit adultery upon her remarriage after divorce, but her husband who divorced her will be the cause of her adultery.
 
*  The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
 
 
💥 What the Bible says about homosexuals and lesbians:
 
Romans 1:22-28
 
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
 
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
 
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
 
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
 
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
 
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
 
 
Mark 10:6  (Jesus said) But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
 
(But God turned them over unto vile affections when they refused to honor God.)
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Take no thought for tomorrow, says Jesus. Instead pray over all your concerns.

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Matthew 6:  Jesus says
 
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
 
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
 
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
 
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
 
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
 
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall HE not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
 
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
 
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
 
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
 
(HIS righteousness is that which HE has led you to do, or has told you to do.)
 
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
 
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Pray over "tomorrow".
 
Philippians 4:6-7
 
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
 
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (The Word).
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Prayer: The way of living in peace in today’s world

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Matthew 6  (Jesus says)
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask HIM.
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be THY name.  (The Word of God.)
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.  (both spiritual and physical food)
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
(I often pray, "Deliver me from evil today."  For there is much evil in the end times.)
 
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Luke 21  (Jesus said:)
 
33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but MY words shall not pass away.
 
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (over indulgence), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
 
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
 
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
 
Prayer connects us to God and makes us "worthy to escape", for we turned to God for HIS help.
 
Prayer is a instrument of peace, for by prayer we receive peace from God concerning the various troubles and concerns of the day.
 
Therefore the apostle Paul says:
 
Philippians 4:
 
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
 
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
 
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Prayer humbles us, showing that we do not trust in ourselves.  Each time we pray, we deliberately put our trust in God in the matter at hand.
 
I Peter 5
 
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that HE may exalt you in due time:
 
7 Casting all your care upon HIM; for HE careth for you.
 
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
 
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith,
 
After we pray, God often brings us a scripture to mind or an instruction.  By doing that scripture (or Word) we "resist the devil".
 
Ephesians 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of HIS might.
 
(strong in the Lord: The Word which God gives you.)
 
John 8:31-32 
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on HIM, If ye continue in MY word, then are ye MY disciples indeed;
 
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

The question?

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Recently a woman's son, who is in his 50's, said to his mother:  "Why are things like this happening so fast today and what is all this leading up to?"
What we are seeing in the world today is leading up to the return of Jesus where the world and the apostasy in churches is judged and the righteous of God are raised to go to the new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
 
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Paul explains the end time as follows:
 
2 Timothy 3
 
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
 
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
 
3 Without natural affection (homosexual/lesbians: Romans 1), trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
 
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
 
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
 
(Some who do these evil things will even attend churches but they deny the power of the Holy Scriptures and will not do these Words of God.)
 
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
 
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
 
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; (God has taught us HIS truths, The Word.)
 
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus (The Word).
 
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
 
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
 
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Jesus says:  
 
Luke 17
 
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
 
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
 
(Genesis 6:5-8  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that HE had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord.)
 
Luke 17  (Jesus says)
 
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
God sent 2 angels to destroy Sodom because the wickedness of man was so great in Sodom and Sodom was to be an example for us who later lived on this earth:  2 Peter 2:6-9  And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
 
Sodom was filled with homosexuals (Sodomites) in every quarter of the city.  God sent 2 angels to destroy Sodom and to save Lot (Abraham's nephew) and get him out of Sodom.
 
Genesis 19  (The story of Sodom)
 
1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
 
(Angels do not have wings.  Angels look like natural men.)
 
2 And he (Lot) said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.  3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
 
4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
 
5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. ("know them": have sex with them)
 
6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, 7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
 
(Lot knew homosexual acts were wicked in the sight of God.)
 
8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
 
9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
 
10 But the men (the 2 angels) put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
 
(Angels have great power from God.)
 
12 And the men (the angels) said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
 
13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. 
 
Genesis 13
 
12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
 
13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
 
What the New Testament Bible says about homosexuals and lesbians:
 
Romans 1:26-28  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
 
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
 
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
 
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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.
 
As the evil of the end time increases, surround your mind even more with the Word of God.  Walk in the Word, doing the scriptures.  Live in the Word.  Dress yourself in doing the Word.  Pray.
 
I Peter 5
 
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that HE may exalt you in due time:
 
7 Casting all your care upon HIM; for HE careth for you.
 
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
 
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith,
 
Turn to God with every concern and talk with God, making your requests known unto God.
 
Philippians 4:6-7
 
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
 
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (The Word).
 
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The devil will be very fierce in the last days:
 
Revelation 12:12 ...Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

For those who take pride in their own flesh, Paul says:

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
I Corinthians 4:7  For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
If God created us with fleshly beauty or talents, how can we take pride in this for we did not create ourselves?
 
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God chose Paul in spite of all the drawbacks, for Paul persecuted the followers of Jesus and put some in prison and others were killed, and Paul consented to their being killed, yet Jesus called Paul from heaven and made him into an apostle because it was the will of God.
 
Acts 26  Paul says:  I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
 
12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
 
13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with ME.
 
14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
 
15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And HE said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
 
16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; 17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
 
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in ME.
 
How could Paul succeed in the ministry with this reputation?
 
God does as HE wills.
 
At first, God sent Ananias to Paul even though Ananias didn't want to go to Paul.
 
Acts 9:10-13  And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, 12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
 
13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to THY saints at Jerusalem: 14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on THY name.
 
15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto ME, to bear MY name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for MY name's sake.
 
So Ananias did as the Lord said and went to Paul.
 
Acts 9:20-23  And straightway he (Paul) preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. 21 But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?  22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ. 23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
 
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Acts 9:26-29  And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
 
27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he (Paul) had seen the Lord in the way, and that HE (Jesus) had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. 28 And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. 29 And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
 
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God gave the apostle Paul many revelations to share with the church.
Yet Paul described his speech as weak and contemptible.
 
2 Corinthians 10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
 
2 Corinthians 11:6  But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
 
Some in Paul's lifetime didn't even consider that Paul could be an apostle.
 
I Corinthians 9:1-2  Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
 
2 Corinthians 11:5  For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
 
Paul did not come to the church with clever worldly sayings.
 
Paul explains:
 
1 Corinthians 2:1-5  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and HIM crucified.
 
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
 
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
 
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
 
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Paul had an infirmity in his flesh to make him less desirable.  He prayed 3 times that this be removed but God explained it to Paul:
 
2 Corinthians 12:6-9  Paul says: For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
 
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
 
9 And HE said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for MY strength is made perfect in weakness. 
 
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
 
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A person might want to be an English teacher and he might go to college and major in a subject and teach. 
 
But that is not the way it is with spiritual things.  We are called by God and ordained by God and set into the body of Christ as God wills and given the Holy Spirit by God.
 
Many today have tried to put themselves into the body of Christ and into the ministry without having the Holy Spirit of God.
  
Jude vv. 17-19 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers (copiers) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
 
These ministers who put themselves into the ministry by the will of men are antichrist, the apostate church.  They and their followers will be destroyed by Jesus when Jesus comes to judge the world.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
 
The real ministers of Jesus are those who are called by Jesus from heaven and set into the New Testament Church as HIS ministers to the body of Christ.  They are called by Jesus, ordained by Jesus, and taught by Jesus from heaven by the Holy Spirit of God.
 
Ephesians 4:8; 11-15  Wherefore HE saith, When HE (Jesus) ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men ... 11 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
 
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into HIM in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
 
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God calls whom HE wills and sets those persons into the body of Christ and ordains some to the ministry of Jesus.
 
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For a born again Christian to look on the past, he could put himself in danger

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Hebrews 11
 
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
 
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
 
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
 
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for HE hath prepared for them a city.
 
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Recently I made a mistake in telling another Christian about a new TV series that I found to be interesting.
 
When she viewed the episode and responded, she talked about how she was reminded of her years before she was born again, when she was a nurse and she went on to dredge up negative memories of parents who had violent children and how sorry she felt for those parents.  
 
I asked God how I could handle this and I felt led to apologize to her for causing her to have memories of the time before she was born again, since she is now a new creature, born again, with a new life in Christ and the old life is dead.
 
The apostle Paul said:
 
Philippians 3
 
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
 
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
 
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded:
 
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2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
 
As a born again Christian, we go forward as a new creature, focused on the life we have been given by God.
 
If we allow ourselves to think on memories of our old life, we might live in "death" of this world for that is what the old life was to us, a type of death.
 
I have many bad memories of my previous life but I try to make my mind focus on the life I have been given by God and go forward thinking of edifying the church in that new life and scriptures showing that life.
 
Instead of death we have been resurrected to walk in that new life of the way of Jesus, The Word.
 
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And even as we view physical death of individuals, we now have another way of looking through the scriptures.
 
Paul tells us he would not have us sorrow over death as this world does, who have no hope.
 
I Thessalonians 4
 
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
 
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.
 
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep.
 
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
 
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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In physical death, the spirit leaves the human body.  (James 2:26)
 
Paul tells us the spirit of the person sleeps in Jesus.  (I Thess. 4:14)
 
I know the spirit of the dead person is not under the ground in a dark grave!  The spirit that was the person we knew in this life is asleep in Jesus when he belongs to Jesus. 
 
And even if you don't know if the person was born again, even at his last breath on this earth, God could have caused him to be born again.  So you can have hope even when you don't know.
 
Focus on the resurrection if you are a Christian, not on graves.
 
I have never visited the graves of either of my parents or my favorite aunt, because I just don't see them in that grave.  Their body is in a grave but their spirit left their bodies when they died and their spirit is asleep in Jesus, not in a grave.
 
When my cousin told me she was visiting the grave of her dead husband and taking him flowers, I said to her:  "Why?  Who are you trying to impress?  Thurman is asleep and cannot see you there.  So who are you trying to impress?"
 
She became very quiet and thought on what I said.  Then she said, "Then it really doesn't matter where we are buried."
 
I replied, "Right!"
 
I believe my cousin was born again when she acknowledge this truth from God which I spoke to her.
 
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When we are born again, God raises us from the dead of this world and gives us a new heart and a new Spirit that we can follow HIM.
 
Ezekiel 36  (God speaks of the New Covenant)
 
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.
 
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
 
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
 
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
 
27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.
 
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Colossians 3
 
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
 
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
 
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
 
4 When Christ, WHO is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with HIM in glory.
 
We have been raised by God from the dead of this world when we have been born again by God's Spirit.
 
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Paul, one of the first of the New Testament apostles

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
 
Acts 26   (Paul speaking to king Agrippa)
 
9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
 
10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
 
11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
 
12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
 
13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
 
14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
 
15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? 
 
And HE said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
 
16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
 
17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
 
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in ME.
 
19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
 
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At the time of John and Paul the apostasy is rising also in the churches and they speak of this

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Antichrist and the apostasy spoken of by the apostle John:
 
1 John 2:18-19  (the apostle John says)  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
 
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
 
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The apostle Paul speaking to the elders of the church at Ephesus:
 
Acts 20:29-30  
 
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
 
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
 
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So the apostasy, antichrist, was already working along side the New Testament Church in the days of John and Paul.
 
And so the apostasy grew each decade with men setting up churches by their own names and their own wisdom and putting hierarchy of ministers by their own will and imaginations.  And they built enormous buildings unto themselves.  And they did as they willed, setting up rules by their own thinking.
 
But always there was a ribbon of people who were of God, having the Spirit of God and following that Spirit given to the church.
 
The apostasy grew and grew as an enormous glutton feeding on itself and in the eyes of the people of this world.
 
But they could never get rid of that small group that had the Spirit of God and that group, though often hidden in the caves and dens, existed even unto this present day.
 
Hebrews 11
 
32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
 
33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
 
34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
 
35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
 
36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
 
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
 
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
 
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At the return of Jesus the churches of the apostasy, of the spirit of antichrist, will be destroyed by Jesus.
 
2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:
 
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Matthew 24:31  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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Salvation is through our believing what God says to us

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
When I think of my own salvation ... God spoke to me and said:  "Joan, you know those mistakes you've been making all these years.  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."
With that word I was born again.  God spoke to me and showed me sins.
 
Salvation is of God.  What God did!
 
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Jesus shows us an example of salvation being from God:
 
Matthew 16
 
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
 
14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
 
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
 
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
 
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
 
(Peter heard from God.  It was God who showed this truth to Peter.  Salvation is from God, from hearing from God.)
 
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
 
(The rock is God speaking to the individual.  The gates of hell shall never overcome that word which God spoke to us.)
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Salvation came to the apostle Paul when Jesus spoke to Paul.
 
Acts 9
 
1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
 
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
 
3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
 
4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
 
5 And he (Paul) said, Who art thou, Lord?
 
And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
 
6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
 
And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
 
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Salvation comes when God speaks to us and when God opens our ears to hear!
 
Salvation is of God by HIS will.  It is God who chooses us to be saved.
 
Romans 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
 
We wait for the Holy Spirit to speak showing us what to do.
 
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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Focus on that which God has shown you concerning specific problems

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Isaiah 26
3 THOU wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on THEE: because he trusteth in THEE.
 
4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
 
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In the midst of a problem, the devil will bring thoughts to your mind of what might happen in future as a result of that problem.  
 
There is no truth in that which devils bring to our mind.  The devil is "a false prophet".
 
Jesus says:
 
John 8:44 ... He (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.
 
I John 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
 
The devil will try to tell you what will happen to you in the future ... but the devil is "a false prophet".
 
Here is what devil does:
 
A problem surfaces.  You turn to God with that problem and God helps you by giving you a word.  You rejoice in that word.  Devil waits a few days and when he can, he brings thoughts opposite to what God has shown you to try to make you doubt and have fear again. Then fear blocks out the word God has given you,
 
Devil said to Eve: 
 
Genesis 3:1   "Hath God said?"
 
(Did God really say that to me?)
 
Doubt begins to pour into your mind.
 
To fight against doubt, we need to keep what God has said about the issue before us day and night until the problem is resolved, for the devil will bring doubtful thoughts when he can do so.
 
But as long as we keep what God said in our mind, devil likely cannot slip his fears into our heart and mind.
 
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I Peter 5:8-9  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
 
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
 
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Be diligent to keep before you what God has said until the problem is fully resolved.
 
As soon as you walk away thinking it settled, devil will creep in with his ideas concerning the matter.
 
And remember devil is a liar and there is no truth in him.  (John 8:44)
 
A lot of trouble and doubt can come when devil brings his thoughts to our mind.
 
So keep what God has said before you for a season.
 
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The Bible tells us the reason there is so much violence in our world today

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
On January 20, CBS Television News showed that 40 mass murders have taken place in cities in the USA since January 1, 2023.
 
Why?  People keep asking.
 
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The apostle Paul answered that for us in the Bible.
 
2 Timothy 3
 
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
 
(These are those last days spoken of by the apostle Paul.)
 
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
 
3 Without natural affection (homosexual/lesbian), trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
 
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
 
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
 
(Attending church but disregarding the scriptures and living the way of this world.)
 
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
 
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
 
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
 
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
 
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
 
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
 
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
 
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
 
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;  (We learned spiritual truths from God.)
 
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
 
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
 
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
 
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The violence will increase until the end of this world.
 
Revelation 12:12 ... Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
 
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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.
 
(God said to me:  "You'll never make men of this earth righteous.  It is in the new heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.  Men of this present world will grow worse and worse.  It will be as in the days of Noah at the end."  violence:  Genesis 6)
 
Peter tells us how we are to be diligent to live:
 
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.
 
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We must not be discouraged by that which we see happening in this world.  We know by the Bible and accept the fact that before God judges this world by the coming of Jesus, the apostasy will come into churches and even now has come into the churches.  The churches will be judged for the falling away from scripture when Jesus returns.
 
The people of the world will get worse and worse as Paul told us in 2 Timothy 3, so both the apostasy and the character of worldly individuals will get worse before our eyes.  It is ordained to end this way and we are fully told this will happen by reading the Bible.  
 
God is in control and will judge both the apostate churches and the world and God will take the righteous to live in the new heaven and new earth which HE has created for them and God will give HIS people new spiritual bodies which are not subject to death, disease, pain, or sorrow.
 
Stay connected continually to God through prayer and encourage yourself through that shown you by the Holy Spirit for HE is the Spirit of Truth and we will not be disappointed when we hear from HIM for it will be truth and not deception.
 
Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
 
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Wisdom

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
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.
 
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Solomon, son of David, ordained by God to replace David as king.
 
I Kings 3
 
5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
 
6 And Solomon said, THOU hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before THEE in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with THEE; and THOU hast kept for him this great kindness, that THOU hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
 
7 And now, O LORD my God, THOU hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
 
8 And THY servant is in the midst of THY people which THOU hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
 
9 Give therefore THY servant an understanding heart to judge THY people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this THY so great a people?
 
10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
 
11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
 
12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
 
13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
 
14 And if thou wilt walk in MY ways, to keep MY statutes and MY commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
 
15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
 
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There is nothing like wisdom.  And God promises to give us wisdom if we ask HIM.
 
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Jesus says: MY kingdom is not of this world

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
John 18:36  Jesus answered, MY kingdom is not of this world: if MY kingdom were of this world, then would MY servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is MY kingdom not from hence.
 
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When Jesus returns, the dead in Christ will awaken and rise to be with Jesus in the air. 
 
💥   I Thessalonians 4:13-17  But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep. For the Lord HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
 
And at that time, Jesus will send HIS angels to the earth to gather HIS elect to bring them into the air.
 
💥  Matthew 24:31  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.
 
We will all be changed into spiritual bodies, no longer having these fleshly bodies.
 
💥  I Corinthians 15:49-53  And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
 
God will destroy this present heaven and earth.
 
💥  2 Peter 3:10-14  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. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 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? Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
 
We will be taken to the new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
 
💥  Revelation 21:1-5  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God HIMSELF shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
 
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The doctrines of Christ are set forth for the churches in the New Testament Bible

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
2 Timothy 3
 
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
 
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
 
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A Jewish woman said she believed in Jesus.  But when she was divorced and wanted to remarry and we told her if she did this she would commit adultery, she replied, "Oh, our church has it's own doctrines."
 
There are no doctrines of Christ other than those doctrines written for us in the New Testament Bible.
 
If you want to know the doctrine of Christ on a subject, read the New Testament Bible. 
 
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A woman who was raised in the Baptist Church was divorced and wanted to remarry.
 
She went to a pastor to see if she could do this.
 
The pastor said, "My sister is divorced and remarried.  I don't see any problem with this."
 
So this woman remarried after divorce.
 
Later she read the New Testament Bible and saw these scriptures and realized she committed adultery and the man who married her committed adultery.
 
💥  Matthew 5:32  (Jesus says)  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.
 
The only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife is adultery.  If his wife was unfaithful to him, he may divorce that unfaithful wife.
 
If a man divorces a faithful wife and she remarries, he will be the cause of her adultery which she will commit if she remarries.
 
And the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
 
💥  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.
 
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.
 
💥  Mark 10  (Jesus says)
 
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
 
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
 
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
 
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
 
10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.
 
11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
 
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she 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.
 
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On television evening news, they were asking the Catholic Pope about homosexuals and lesbians and he replied, "Oh, I don't see any problem with that."
 
I SCREAMED OUT AT THE TELEVISION:  "What about the Bible?"
 
Homosexuals & lesbians:
 
💥  Romans 1
 
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
 
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
 
20 For the invisible things of HIM from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even HIS eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
 
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified HIM not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
 
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
 
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
 
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
 
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
 
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
 
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
 
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
 
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Mark 10:6   But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
 
They are born male and female but they are turned over by God to be homosexual/lesbians.  If they repent and recognize the truth of the scripture and turn from homosexual and lesbian acts they can be saved.
 
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The churches follow many doctrines today which are opposite to the New Testament Bible.
 
These are antichrist, doctrines of the apostasy.
 
The churches of antichrist and the apostasy will be destroyed by the return of Jesus.
 
2 Thessalonians 2
 
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:
 
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved
 
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
 
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
 
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The churches fall away from scripture. This is the apostasy of the end times.

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
2 Thessalonians 2  (KJV)
 
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
In 1982, I was reading the above scripture and God spoke to me and said:  "The falling away are not people leaving the churches.  The falling away are the churches leaving the scripture."
 
This was the end time apostasy where the spirit of antichrist takes over in the church groups.
 
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5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
 
The one who restrains antichrist is Jesus "The Word".
 
As soon as the churches removed portions of the Word, the door was opened for antichrist to move into the church group.
 
When Jesus returns, antichrist and the apostate churches will be destroyed by HIM
 
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8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:
 
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
 
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
 
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
 
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At the end, God destroys this present heaven and earth.
 
2 Peter 3:10-14
 
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.
 
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God sends HIS angels to gather HIS elect:
 
Matthew 24:31  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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Scriptures on: Divorce/remarriage; fornication; homosexual/lesbian; and other sins against God

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
I John 5
 
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep HIS commandments.3 For this is the love of God, that we keep HIS commandments: and HIS commandments are not grievous.4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
 
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We who are born of God are recreated by God in the Word of God and we love the Word of God and we keep the commandment of God written in the Holy Scriptures and by these scriptures we reconstruct our lives and know God's truth.
 
Divorce & remarriage:
 
💥  Matthew 5:32  (Jesus says)  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.
 
The only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife is adultery.  If his wife was unfaithful to him, he may divorce that unfaithful wife.
 
If a man divorces a faithful wife and she remarries, he will be the cause of her adultery which she will commit if she remarries.
 
And the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
 
💥  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.
 
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.
 
💥  Mark 10  (Jesus says)
 
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
 
10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she 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.
 
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Fornication:
 
💥  I Corinthians 6:15-18  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
 
💥  I Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
 
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Homosexuals & lesbians:
 
💥  Romans 1
 
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.20 For the invisible things of HIM from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even HIS eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified HIM not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
 
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Mark 10:6   But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
 
They are born male and female but they are turned over by God to be homosexual/lesbians.  If they repent and recognize the truth of the scripture and turn from homosexual and lesbian acts they can be saved.
 
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💥  I Corinthians 6
 
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals) , nor abusers of themselves with mankind,10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
 
When God shows us our sins and we repent, God causes us to be born again, giving us a new heart and a new spirit, HIS heart and spirit.  
 
💥  Ezekiel 36  God says
 
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.24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.
 
If we continue in God's Word to the end of our lives on this present earth, doing HIS Word and trusting in Jesus, The Word, we will be saved.
 
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We are God’s workmanship

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
2 Corinthians 1:24   Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
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After I was born again in 1975, my Church of Christ cousin tried to take over the self-imposed job of being my "spiritual supervisor."
She had recognized that I was now a Christian, and she said:  "I just don't see HOW you can be."
(She didn't understand being born again.  She didn't understand that it is God who does the work in us and she didn't understand the working of the Holy Spirit.)
 
I was 38 years old when I was born again.
 
God caused me to be born again.  God said to me:  "Joan ... you know those mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."
 
Immediately God began teaching me, by the Bible, taking me from scripture to scripture as HE willed to prepare me for the work assigned by HIM.
 
In a local prayer group, God taught me to operate in the spiritual gifts which HE had given me.
 
It was this way:  One day, as the women were praying, I heard these words:  "Look up!"  I raised my head, opened my eyes, and saw on the wall an outline of a part of a human body.  I said to God, "I know that is a part of the human body but I don't know which part."  I heard, "Stomach."  
 
"Oh yes," I responded.  "It is a stomach."  I remembered the Pepto-Bismal  commercials I'd seen on television. 
 
When the women quit praying, I asked, "Does anyone have a stomach problem?"
 
One woman excitedly cried out, "I do!  I do!"
 
After that God would often give me "a word of knowledge" when I attended the prayer group or the single's class at the church.
 
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A few days after I was born again, I was sleeping in the night and was transported into heaven.  I was with God and Christ and the Holy Spirit.  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 the Holy Spirit witnessing.
 
A few nights later, the exact same thing happened again.
 
I didn't know what this meant.
 
(Later I came to believe I was ordained at that time into the two ministry offices to which I was called by God:  apostle & prophet)
 
Ephesians 4
 
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.8 Wherefore HE saith, When HE ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.  
 
11  And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
 
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God took me through all the scriptures in the Bible concerning prophets, showing me the work of the prophets in the church and teaching me many things about prophets.
 
Also I was shown by God doctrine for the New Testament Church as presented in the Holy Bible, for those called as an apostle have a special ordination to deal with church doctrines.
 
God showed me "many revelations" opening my eyes to understand what the scriptures were saying.
 
(An example:)  
 
Matthew 24:3-5  And as HE (Jesus) sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto HIM privately, saying, "Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of THY coming, and of the end of the world?"  4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, "Take heed that no man deceive you.  5 For many shall come in MY name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."
 
Immediately I saw what Jesus meant.  
 
Many would come saying HE, Jesus was Christ, and by saying that they would deceive many.  
 
This is the end-time apostasy in the churches, the "falling away" described by the apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2.
 
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 
And God said to me:
 
"The falling away are not people leaving the churches. The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."
 
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Another scripture which God explained to me was this:
 
Matthew 16:13-17
 
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, HE asked HIS disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?14 And they said, Some say that THOU art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?16 And Simon Peter answered and said, THOU art the Christ, the Son of the living God.17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but MY Father which is in heaven.18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build MY church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.The significant point was not Peter saying Jesus is the Christ.
 
The significant point was the fact that it was God who showed this to Peter.  
 
The Word of God that came down from heaven to the individual was that upon which Jesus would build HIS church. The gates of hell could not prevail over THAT WORD which God gives on the matter at hand.
 
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For the next five years God taught me the Bible and how to operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the church.  I went to many seminars at various church groups in the Dallas area and at those meetings God often gave me spiritual gifts to share with those church groups.  By these spiritual gifts the churches recognized that a call of God was on my life.  
 
During this time, I owned a small business in Dallas, American Indian Arts.  One day a prophet from our church group came into my shop and said to me:  "Joan ... you are dragging your feet.  You know you are supposed to be in the ministry."
 
(I had already published one book, "Taking Thoughts Captive", but I was still operating a secular business.)
 
I closed the business July 31, 1979, and had already set up papers with the State of Texas and the USA government in 1978 to operate a non-profit church.
 
I waited at my apartment in Dallas for the next 6 months for God to show me what I was to do in ministry.  I lived off the money from the sale of the business.
 
On January 10, 1980, in the night while I was sleeping, a very loud voice spoke three words to me:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"
 
(I believe this was an angel of God speaking to me for the voice was trumpet-like and very strong.)
 
I found KWJS to be a radio station.  I asked God, "Are YOU telling me to go on radio?  I wouldn't know how to do that.  I'm a writer, not a speaker."
 
Immediately I heard:  "Call the radio station manager."
 
That same morning I called the KWJS radio station manager.  I said:  "God might be showing me to go on radio.  How would you do that?"  He replied:  "Make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to me and if you fit our broadcasting we will offer you a contract."
 
I recorded a tape that same morning and put it into the mail and within 5 days I was broadcasting exhortations to the church on radio KWJS.  Within a year, I was on radio from Hartford (NYC) to Seattle just as I heard in that word spoken in the night to me on January 10, 1980:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"
 
We are God's workmanship!  HE does as HE wills with us when HE puts us into the body of Christ.  HE prepares us for the work when HE is going to use us as a minister.  HE teaches us and guides us according to the assignment HE gives us.  HIS way is perfect.  No man can do this.  No school can teach us these things.  God does this HIMSELF.
 
If you are a mother and housewife, God perfects your way in that calling.
 
If you are a businessman, God perfects you in that area.
 
Pam Padgett was given a ministry of "helps".
 
I Corinthians 12:27-28  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.  And God hath set some in the church (to work in the church), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
 
God prepared Pam to do work in computers.  
 
When God had me start a blog in 2012, Pam did all technical work for the blog, setting it up for the ministry and publishing exhortations for the church world-wide daily. Later Pam did the technical work for all books that I published on Amazon.  Then in 2020, when we broadcast Podcasts, Pam set this up and chose a host for us so our exhortations could be presented.
 
God has the way set up for us in all that HE wants us to do.
 
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Ephesians 2:20  For we are HIS workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
 
So after you are born again, follow the Holy Spirit and do the scriptures as HE shows you and you will end up where God wants you as you are left on this earth.
 
Follow God.
 
No human can do for you that which God will do.
 
 
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Women speaking in the church

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
When God made it clear to me that I was to function in the church in the offices of apostle and prophet, I asked God,  "How can this be when Paul said let women keep silence in the churches?"
 
God said to me:  "Look at what these women were doing."
 
I Corinthians 14:34-35  Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
 
I believe God was showing me these women were disrupting the gathering of the church by asking questions.
 
Then God said to me:  Look at the 4 daughters of Philip.  They were prophets.  They would have to speak to the church to prophesy.
 
Acts 21:8-9  And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. 9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
 
To prophesy you would have to speak to the church.
 
And God reminded me of Anna and Deborah:
 
Luke 2:36-39  And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of HIM to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
 
Judges 4:4-5  And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. 5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
 
When God showed me these scriptures I agreed to serve the church as HE showed me:
 
Apostles:  Deal with scripture and help establish the doctrines of Christ in the churches.
 
Prophets:  Often carry corrections and exhortations to the churches.
 
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Rules for the gathering of the church:

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
I Corinthians 14
26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
(God showed me these women were disrupting the flow of the spirit of God.  God said to me, "Look at what these women were doing.")36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
 
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