Building your house on the word from God

That thou mayest walk in the way of good, and keep the paths of the righteous. (Prov. 2:20)

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
(Comments by Joan Boney)
 
As I awoke this morning, I was hearing this:
 
Proverbs 4
 
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil.
 
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
 
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What is good?  What is evil?
 
One problem:  Many people want to be wise in their own eyes.  This causes people to praise them.
 
If your wisdom comes from God, and you say "God told me this", then God will be praised. 
 
The devil appeared to Eve to tempt her, to get her to disobey God.
 
Genesis 3
 
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
 
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
 
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
 
(Eve added to the word of God: God did not say, "Neither shall ye touch it.")
 
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
 
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
 
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
 
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A promise of God:
 
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.
 
But many people want to glorify themselves, having people see them as being wise.
 
They do not want to have God give them wisdom.  They want to do it themselves.  They don't think they need God to help them.  They think they know what to do.
 
Proverb 14:12  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Proverbs 2 / Wisdom

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
I believe we are currently living in the end time period Jesus calls "The Beginning of Sorrows."  (Mt. 24:8)
This comes before Jesus returns to awaken the dead and to gather the elect to take them to the new heaven and new earth which God has created for them for eternal life shown to John in the following scriptures.
 
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.
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.
 
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In the period of The Beginning of Sorrows, Jesus says:
 
Matthew 24
 
3 And as HE 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?
 
4-5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in MY name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
 
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
 
(WW I & WW II covering the whole earth which had never been seen before.  Regional wars also.)
 
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences (Coronavirus of 2020), and earthquakes (50,000 killed in 2023 in Turkey & Syria), in divers places.
 
8  All these are the beginning of sorrows.
 
These are preludes to the coming of Jesus and The Great tribulation where God pours out plagues upon this world as a judgment before the end of this world.  The 7 angels bring the first 7 plagues.  Then 7 more angels pour out vials containing various "woes" upon this earth.
 
At the end of this world, God destroys this present heaven and earth with fire.
 
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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Set yourself in agreement with the scriptures in the Holy Bible.  Put yourself in the way of God.  Correct your way.  Repent of any evil before the judgment of God consumes this earth and before Jesus gathers the elect.
 
Go forward in the wisdom of God.
 
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 Proverbs 2
 
1 My son, if thou wilt receive MY words, and hide MY commandments with thee;
 
2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
 
3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
 
4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
 
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
 
As I read the Bible, I'm always looking for scripture to do.
 
For the doer of the Word is blessed. (James 1:25)
 
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6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of HIS mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
 
(Romans 12:2... And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, to Bible, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God)
 
7 HE layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: HE is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
 
(The righteous are those who seek the ways of God and do that which is right in the sight of God.  We learn by the Word of God by the examples given us in the Holy Bible.)
 
(buckler: a shield ... When we follow the scriptures and see the examples in the Bible, we are shielded from many temptations of this world as we choose to do that which we believe to be right in the sight of God.)
 
8 HE (God) keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of HIS saints.
 
(The Holy Spirit of God who lives in us searches the heart of God and brings to our mind what HE hears from God and we go that way. 1 Cor. 2:10-12  The Holy Spirit is always compatible with the Holy Scriptures and HE will not go against the scriptures.)
 
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
 
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10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
 
11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
 
(discretion: doing that which is called to your memory which is compatible with the scriptures; usually doing that which is right by the Spirit of God.)
 
12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil, from the man that speaketh froward things; 
 
(froward:  stubbornly unruly especially against the Word of God)
 
13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
 
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In the end times, Jesus says many will leave the right way because the iniquity around them in this world will be so bad.
 
Matthew 24:12-13  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many (for the Word of God) shall wax cold.  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 
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(We know evil for we know the scriptures:  Galatians 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft (superstitions), hatred, variance (to vary / debate), emulations (to try to outdo another person), wrath (to want evil to come to another), strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings (partying, usually with excess of drugs or alcohol), and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.)
 
And we know good because we know the Spirit of God.
 
Galatians 5:22-23  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith (in God and in HIS word), meekness, temperance:
 
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Proverbs 2
 
(But some leave the right way of God and go in the way of the world and in the way of the apostate churches.)
 
14  Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
 
15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
 
(froward:  stubbornly unruly)
 
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The word delivers those who will go in the way of the Word.
 
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
 
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
 
18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
 
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
 
20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good, and keep the paths of the righteous.
 
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21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
 
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
 
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And it will get much worse in the days ahead on this earth.
 
No wonder Jesus said:  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.  (Mt. 24:21-22)
 
We must learn to operate in God's wisdom, obeying the Holy Scriptures.
 
Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
 
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

If sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path. (Proverbs 1:10;15)

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
In 2022, I noticed a big change in the TV sports networks.  They began to put a major focus on gambling on sporting events!
 
In 1975, when I was born again, I saw the following concerning Abraham.
 
Genesis 14:21-23  And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
 
22-23 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, 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:
 
After I read this scripture, in 1975, I said to God:  "That's the way I want to live.  I want my provision to come from you.  I don't want them to say they are the reason I'm doing well.  I want God to be my wealth."  And I've kept that way since that time.  And there has been no "want" in my life.
 
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I enjoy watching some of the football games, both NFL and college.
 
These gambling ads appear frequently during the television presentations.
 
Even though my way is set by Abraham's statement, occasionally the gambling ad will be very enticing.
 
I can imagine that large numbers of people participate.
 
Sometimes I even find that I have to stop myself and restructure:  "I want my wealth to come from God."
 
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Today, I was rereading the writing on our Podcast from Proverbs 1 published this week.  And the following verses stood out and I thought of some of the times I've been "enticed" by that gambling advertisement (but did not enter).
 
Mostly I thought of all the people who are enticed and enter gambling.
 
And I thought of this instruction from Proverbs 1.
 
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
 
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
 
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
 
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
 
10  My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
 
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
 
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The apostle Paul says:  But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  (Phil. 4:19)
 
Surely none of us would want to exchange God's provision for our own ability to choose winners and gamble and perhaps even lose our own soul in the endeavour.
 
The wisdom of God is:
 
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:  (Proverbs 1)
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Wisdom: King Solomon and Proverbs 1

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Wisdom from God is something we greatly need to pursue and to seek at this time in our lives as we continue to wait for the return of Jesus and as we witness those things coming upon the earth in the days ahead.
 
* unusual storms at strange times of the year; 
* earthquakes; 
* Coronavirus pestilence; 
* volcanic eruptions; 
* extreme heat and forest fires; 
* governments of men working in great debt; 
* blatant and overt wickedness flaunted before our eyes on TV; 
* no shame; 
* men lying without concern; 
* moral corruption; 
* sins in church groups even to removal of doctrines of Bible from the congregation, 
* the apostate churches of the end times.
 
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God makes this promise to HIS people, HIS church today.
 
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.
 
Sometimes we simply forget to talk with God about our plans.  And we go forth in our own thinking.  It might work out and it might not when we go about it like that.  Why take the risk?  when we have the promise from God that if we ask HIM for wisdom, HE will give us wisdom?
 
I believe this series on Wisdom will help each of us to remember to seek wisdom from God.  And I believe these writings over the next month will cause us to have an understanding of wisdom and to keep in our minds the need we have for wisdom to become deeply rooted in each of our hearts.
 
We should find these writings to be very exciting, profitable and comforting as we go forward daily.
 
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King Solomon asked God for wisdom and God gave Solomon wisdom and Solomon was the wisest of men because it was from God!
 
I Kings 3
 
4 And the king (Solomon) went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
 
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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The wisdom God gave to king Solomon has lasted for centuries and even today in secular TV shows, I have heard reference made to the wisdom of Solomon.
 
Wisdom from God is greatly to be desired, more than rubies and silver and gold.  There is nothing like wisdom that comes from God.
 
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The wisdom of Solomon:
 
Proverbs 1
 
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
 
2  To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
 
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
 
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
 
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5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
 
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
 
7  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
 
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To fear God and choose HIS way is safety, prosperity, and health.  True wisdom is to choose God and that which HE shows you.
 
Fear of the Lord is to have great awe of that which God shows you and to know that to go any other direction is to risk extreme danger and is very foolish.
 
We have a sure thing when we hear a word from God and go that way!
 
I was born again in 1975 and began reading the Bible and seeking to do the Word.  I saw the information about king Solomon and wanted wisdom from God.  Also I saw that God promises to give us wisdom if we ask HIM. 
 
I wrote on each book of the Bible, "Remember to ask God for wisdom."
 
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No good comes from traveling with the evil seekers:
 
Proverbs 1:10-16    My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
 
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
 
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
 
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
 
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
 
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
 
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
 
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2 Corinthians 6
 
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
 
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
 
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.
 
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean ; and I will receive you,
 
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be MY sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
 
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At the time I was born again, so far as I know, none of my friends were Christians.  And I was changed so dramatically by God that I no longer wanted to be with those people I had been around.  I wanted to hear things of God.  I wanted to read Bible.  I wanted to go to Church and attend things of God with people of God.
 
Two Baptist women said to me, "Don't give up your worldly friends."
 
But I no longer had anything in common with my previous friends.
 
The Baptist women were thinking maybe I could lead some of my past friends to Christ.  But that is not the way I felt.  I just didn't have anything in common anymore with them.  I was very changed by God.
 
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.
 
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If we reject God's counsel:
 
Proverbs 1
 
20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
 
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
 
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
 
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23 Turn you at MY reproof: behold, I will pour out MY spirit unto you, I will make known MY words unto you.
 
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out MY hand, and no man regarded;
 
25 But ye have set at nought all MY counsel, and would none of MY reproof:
 
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
 
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
 
28 Then shall they call upon ME, but I will not answer; they shall seek ME early, but they shall not find ME:
 
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
 
30 They would none of MY counsel: they despised all MY reproof.
 
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
 
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
 
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33 But whoso hearkeneth unto ME shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
 
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Consider this:
 
Proverbs 14:12  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
 
I believe we live now in the beginning of the end times warned about in the Bible.  If so, we are told by the apostle Paul to expect these to be "perilous times".
 
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 (homosexuals / lesbians / abortionists), 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.
 
(Paul doesn't tell us to keep company with this world or disobedient church people.  Paul says to turn away from them when you see this.  And that is what I did.)
 
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And Jesus says, concerning the end times:
 
Matthew 24
 
1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
 
2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
 
3 And as he 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.
 
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
 
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
 
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
 
💥  Wars:  World Wars I & II ... spectacular in that they included most of the nations of men on this earth.
 
💥  Pestilences:  2020  Coronavirus covers entire world as we have never seen before.  NYC was empty of people and traffic as we usually see it.  On March 11, 2020, I was shocked to hear they were cancelling the major college basketball tournament, "March Madness".  Professional basketball and professional golf and professional baseball cancelled games and tournaments and entire seasons. Most things completely shut down, never before seen. And it happened all over the earth!  It reminded me of the fall of Babylon in Revelation 18.  (It was not that event but I was seeing things that were described in the writings concerning the fall of Babylon.)
 
💥  Earthquakes:  2023 Great earthquake in Turkey and Syria kills almost 50,000 people (unheard of).
 
How can these things not get our attention?
 
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And Jesus speaks of more things to come at the end.
 
Matthew 24:12-13  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 
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And Jesus tells us how really bad the time will become:
 
Matthew 24:21-22  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
 
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Churches are everywhere in USA.  How could it ever get this bad?
 
The apostasy comes into churches.  They fall away from scripture and set up other doctrines. They feel secure because they say "Jesus is Lord", but they cast aside scripture which is "Jesus".  And they have no idea they are a part of antichrist and the apostasy of the end time.
 
If we really love The Word of God, we will live by the instructions of the scriptures.
 
A quick test:  Jesus said:  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.
 
Is this what they teach and do at your church group?
 
* The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery?
 
* The divorced woman commits adultery if she remarries?
 
* The man who divorces a faithful wife is the cause of her committing adultery if she remarries?
 
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The apostasy in today's churches is rampant.
 
Do they teach the following about homosexuals and lesbians at your church group?
 
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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"without natural affection":  (2 Timothy 3:3)  ... Is it "natural" for a woman to kill her unborn child with abortion?
 
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"sex outside of marriage" ... fornication ... The apostle Paul says at the time of sexual intercourse two become one flesh, even if you have sex with an "harlot" (prostitute)
 
I Cor. 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.
 
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And it will get much worse in the days ahead on this earth.
 
No wonder Jesus said:  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.  (Mt. 24:21-22)
 
We must learn to operate in God's wisdom, obeying the Holy Scriptures.
 
Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
 
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Our kingdom is not of this world

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
💥 John 18:36  (Jesus said)  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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Hebrews 11
 
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
 
(The king had commanded that every male child be killed at birth because there were too many Jewish people in Egypt.  Moses would have been killed but his parents hid Moses in the river and Pharaoh's daughter found the Hebrew baby floating in the daubed ark and she took him to raise him as her own child.)
 
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
 
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
 
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
 
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing HIM who is invisible.
 
Like Moses, we too see HIM who is invisible.
 
Those things we can see with our natural eye will be burned up, destroyed by God, at the end of this world.
 
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.
 
Matthew 24:35  (Jesus says)  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but MY words shall not pass away.
 
We see that which is eternal.  The people of this world see that which is temporary.
 
2 Corinthians 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
 
(temporal: temporary; restricted by boundaries of time)
 
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Mark 8  (Jesus says)
 
34 And when HE had called the people unto HIM with HIS disciples also, HE said unto them, Whosoever will come after ME, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow ME.
 
35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for MY sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
 
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
 
37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
 
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Abraham is an example for us.  He wanted his "wealth" to come from God.
 
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:
 
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As those born of the Spirit of God, we try to do that which is right in the sight of God to other people.
 
We are not abusers of ourselves with mankind as are those people of this world.
 
I Corinthians 6
 
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
 
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, 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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We have inside of us the way of God as we deal with others, not wanting to take advantage of others to get what we want on this present earth.
 
We hold fast to personal integrity which comes from doing that which is right in the sight of God.  We base our way of life on what is right in the sight of God, living by scripture, living uncompromising lives, building a moral base from scriptures.
 
In pursuit of money and fame and position in this life, many lose personal integrity, compromising their way of life to get what they want.  Integrity is critical for each of us.
 
Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.  Our integrity is based on that which God teaches us from the Holy Bible and on that which God plants in our heart by HIS Holy Spirit.
 
For our kingdom is not of this world, as is theirs.
 
That which matters to us is doing that which is right in the sight of God, even when it causes us to suffer worldly loss.
 
💥 Examples: I have a bed frame which raises and lowers the bed.  One of our kittens chewed through the wiring.  We set about to have the frame fixed.  But when the man from the mattress company came to replace the motor, he found the damage was far more extensive than anticipated so we would be better off to buy a new frame.  When I found we needed to do this, all I could think of is being sure we paid the man who came but couldn't do the repair work.  When I asked Pam, she said she had already paid him for his trip to our house.  Pam and I have the same Spirit, the Spirit of God, not wanting to do harm to others nor cause them to suffer loss.  (I Cor. 6:9  (not being) Abusers of themselves with mankind)
 
Another example:  I bought a new leather sofa several years ago. After they delivered the sofa, my cat jumped on the sofa and inspected the addition.  When my cleaning lady came to work, she said my cat had damaged the new sofa with one of her claws.  I looked at one of the seats and saw the claw mark.  Most people would not notice the small scratch.  I could have called and told the furniture store I had decided not to buy the sofa.  But if I did that someone else would suffer loss.  If the furniture store sold the sofa then the customer would have a slightly damaged sofa.  Or the furniture store would suffer loss if they discovered the blemish and had to discount the price to sell the item.  This is what Paul means when he speaks of being an abuser of themselves with mankind.  Is is worth losing your soul?
 
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I Corinthians 10:12-13  Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
 
13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
 
In 2019, when I moved to Colorado, I gave that leather sofa to my contractor's son.  Tom said his son was so happy to get the sofa.
 
Do not defraud another person.  Suffer the loss.  God will repay you.
 
This is a part of developing integrity.
 
Also it shows that person and whether or not this world is that person's kingdom.
 
We must do right by other people.
 
I Corinthians 6
 
6 Now these things (in the Bible) were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
 
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
 
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
 
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
 
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
 
(murmur:   complain)
 
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
 
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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.
 
(What is right in the sight of God in this issue?)
 
2 Set your affection on things above (pleasing God), not on things on the earth.
 
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
 
(At the moment we were born again, we died to this world and the things of this world, for God gave us HIS Spirit to live in us and teach us and guide us in HIS ways.  HE delivered us from this world and caused us to follow HIS Spirit.  So our goals differ from the goals of this world.  Now we serve God doing as God instructs.  We are dead to this world but alive to God. And we hold fast to the Word of God in all our ways, doing what is shown us by God through HIS Spirit and the Holy Scriptures.)
 
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with HIM in glory.
 
5 Mortify (put to death) therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
 
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
 
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
 
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
 
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
 
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of HIM that created him:
 
11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
 
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
 
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
 
14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
 
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
 
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
 
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The Book of Proverbs is filled with wisdom given to king Solomon from God and we can learn many wonderful things by these verses in this life, seeing the way of God, the way of true godliness for both this life and the next life which is forever.
 
Our kingdom is not of this world.  We see HIM who is invisible!
 
I often pray over myself the following:
 
Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
 
When we brush against this world and the ideas of man, we often take on uncleanness of this world.  I depend on God to restore my soul to HIS ways and set me straight from the ways of men of this world.  So I ask God to cleanse my heart and spirit that I may serve God and go in HIS way.
 
After praying this and depending on God, I encounter perfect peace, as God restores me to HIMSELF and His truth and HIS way.
 
When God cleanses us, we are clean!
 
Start now with a good heart and lay your foundation in wisdom as presented by God as we spend the next month looking at the book of Proverbs and allowing God to work in us by HIS Word.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Hate the evil and love the good!

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Amos 5:15  Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
 
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There is so much blatant evil displayed today on TV.  When it appears, I usually turn that program off.  Sometimes the news presents unnecessary evil.  Often evil appears in TV programs.  And politicians are really incredibly evil in some of their talking and presentations.
 
I can tell they do not understand sins in the sight of God.
 
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 (homosexual), 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.
 
Galatians 5:19-21
 
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
 
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
 
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 
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But you must not return to these sins after you have been forgiven.
 
Hebrews 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
 
2 Peter 2:20-21  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
 
Hebrews 6:4-6  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put HIM to an open shame.
 
7-8 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
 
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Jesus says your name can be blotted out of the book of life.
 
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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John 8, is the story of the woman taken in adultery who is brought before Jesus.
 
Jesus forgave this woman.  But Jesus then said to her:  "Go ... and sin no more."  (Jn. 8:11)
 
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I can't imagine wanting to sin after you have been forgiven.
 
Aren't we ashamed of those sins we committed before we were born again?  How could we want to return to that which "damns" us?  Don't we understand how unprofitable such things were to us before?
 
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The story of Joseph:
 
Joseph's brothers sold Joseph into slavery when Joseph was 17-years-old.
 
Genesis 39
 
1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
 
2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
 
3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
 
4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
 
5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
 
6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat.  And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
 
7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
 
8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
 
9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
 
10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
 
11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
 
12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
 
13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
 
14 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
 
15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.
 
16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
 
17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:
 
18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
 
19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
 
20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
 
21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
 
22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
 
23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
 
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Romans 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
 
Renew your mind to the Bible, the Word of God.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

The wrath of God, the judgment of God, comes on this earth because of the sins of this world and the apostate churches

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
When Jesus returns in a cloud in the sky, HE will come with a voice that wakes the dead in Christ.  And Jesus will send HIS angels to this earth to gather HIS elect and take them off this earth in their new spiritual bodies.  They will be taken to the new heaven and the new earth, new Jerusalem which is prepared for them by God.
 
Revelation 21 (The New heaven and earth)
 
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.
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I Corinthians 15   (New spiritual bodies)
 
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
 
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
 
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
 
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
 
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 our present physical bodies into our new spiritual bodies.)
 
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
 
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I Thessalonians 4  (The dead in Christ are awakened by Jesus)
 
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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Matthew 24:31  (Jesus sends HIS angels to gather the elect of God)  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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Then comes The Great Tribulation which God brings upon this earth. 7 trumpets of God will sound by the 7 angels of God loosing the 7 plagues upon this earth. 7 more angels will pour out the vials of wrath upon this earth. Then God will destroy this present heaven and earth with fire.
 
2 Peter 3:10-14  (God destroys this present heaven and earth with fire)
 
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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Why does judgment come on this earth?
 
Unrepentant man is destroyed by God because of sin:
 
Galatians 5:19:21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 
I Corinthians 6:9-10  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, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
 
Judgment is coming!
 
Repent and ask God to save you and stop sinning.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Saved by The Word of God

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
No church can save you.  The church are the people who have been saved, born again by the Spirit of God.
 
We are saved by The Word of God.  When God speaks to us giving us the Word, we are then born again by that Word, saved.
 
Acts 2:47  And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
 
Acts 13:48  and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
 
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I went forward at my aunt's church (Church of Christ) when I was 15 and was baptized in water.  But I was not born again by the Spirit of God.  I didn't want to go to hell so I did what that church group said to do.  Nothing at all changed inside me.  I continued pursuing my own ambitions.  I rarely thought of God at all.
 
On August 5, 1975, I was reading a book about sin, when God spoke to me and said:  "Joan ... you know all those mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those where sins."
 
SINS ... I was so shocked!
 
And with that Word of God, I was born again.
 
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.
 
I was changed immediately, given the Holy Spirit of God to live inside me and to teach me and guide me.
 
The New Covenant Church:
 
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.
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Pam Padgett was raised in the Catholic church.  One of her classmates was killed on a motorcycle.  This is the first time Pam knew a person her age could die.
 
The following concept came into her heart:  My only hope is God.  Nothing I can do and nothing I learned in the Catholic church can save me.
 
She knew she would go to hell if she died at that time.  She was terrified and cried out to God.
 
"If there is any way you can save me, please save me.  YOU are my only hope!"
 
After praying that, she knew there was something of God in her.  It was years before she saw a scripture showing her what it was of God that was in her.
 
1 Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
 
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John 1
 
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
 
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
 
3 All things were made by HIM; and without HIM was not any thing made that was made.
 
4 In HIM was life; and the life was the light of men.
 
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
 
10 HE was in the world, and the world was made by HIM, and the world knew HIM not.
 
11 HE came unto HIS own, and HIS own received HIM not.
 
12 But as many as received HIM, to them gave HE power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on HIS name:
 
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
 
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld HIS glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Evil men who say they are pastors who see us as a way for themselves to get money

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Jesus tells us to beware of false ministers in the end time:
 
Matthew 24
 
1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and HIS disciples came to HIM for to shew HIM the buildings of the temple.
 
2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
 
(Everything we can see with our natural eyes will be destroyed.)
 
3 And as HE 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.
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Peter warns us about end time ministers who see us as "merchandise" to benefit themselves, sources of money.
 
2 Peter 2
 
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
 
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
 
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
 
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
 
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
 
6 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;
 
7 And 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:
 
 
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
 
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
 
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
 
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
 
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
 
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
 
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
 
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
 
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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Be strong in the Lord and in the power of HIS might. (Eph. 6:10)

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
A great many church people want to be strong in themselves and in that which they have learned.
 
They think they are trusting in God but actually they are trusting in their own flesh and their own learning.
 
And through fleshly pride, they think they are supposed to take care of the problem themselves, rather than simply calling on God and submitting the problem to God and letting God work in the situation as HE wills.
 
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My 97 year old cousin told me this:  "I do well during the day, but I get so lonely in the evenings."
 
I told her, each evening when you start to feel pulled down, just turn to God and ask God to help you, filling your evening, and God will help you.
 
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.
 
About 2 weeks later, she wrote to me saying:  "I do well during the day but I get so lonely in the evenings."
 
She didn't do the word of God.
 
Many in churches hear the Word of God and read the Word of God but fail to do the Word of God.
 
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In 2018, I fell in my house in Texas and had to have surgery on my left hip which was broken in the fall.
 
I was in a rehabilitation hospital for 2 1/2 months in Texas.  I was mostly alone.  When I awoke in the mornings I would often have this thought:  "How can I get through all this time today?"
 
And then I would remember to pray:  "God ... please fill the time today and help me."
 
God always helped me.  And I often was surprised that it was already dinner time!  Where did all the time go?  It flew by!
 
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Be strong in the Lord ...
 
When I come in contact with worldly thinking, I often pray:
 
Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
 
It is not that I am asking God to help me.  "I'm asking God to cleanse me!"
 
Some trust in themselves.  But I turn to God trusting in HIM to cleanse my heart and spirit.
 
God restores my soul!  (Psalm 23:3)
 
I trust in the power of God's might.  
 
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Some think themselves to be wise and to be able to figure out what to do.
 
I just ask God to give me wisdom.  Trusting in God and not in myself.
 
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.  
 
James 3:17  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 
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Psalm 111:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do HIS commandments: HIS praise endureth for ever.
 
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Neither give place to the devil. (Eph. 4:27)

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
When we do the works of the flesh, we give place to devils.
 
Ephesians 4:26  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
 
Before we are born again, we do the works of the flesh.
 
Galatians 5:19-21
 
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
 
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
 
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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After we are born again, we have the Holy Spirit of God, and then we can control our flesh by the Holy Spirit, by following the Spirit.
 
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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Galatians 5:22-25
 
22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
 
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh (keeping our flesh dead) with the affections and lusts.
 
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
 
The flesh brings to mind something we can do that is of the flesh.  But we choose to do that which is of the Holy Spirit, keeping our flesh under control of the Spirit.
 
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God will shake the heavens and the earth

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Hebrews 12
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now HE hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
 
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Revelation 21  (The new heavens and new earth)
 
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.
 
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Psalm 111:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do HIS commandments: HIS praise endureth for ever.
 
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Follow peace

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Hebrews 12:14-15  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
 
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The Holy Spirit will bring ideas to us which make for peace.
 
The apostle Peter tells us to live in peace, without spot and blameless as we wait for the coming of Jesus.  (2 Peter 3:14)
 
We do not know the day or the hour that Jesus will return so this would mean that we would have to live throughout each day in peace, keeping ourselves ready.  We do that by praying over all problems when they surface.  Pray immediately as soon as you realize there might be a problem.  Be diligent to do this.
 
This does not mean we agree with evil or approve evil.
 
We depart from evil and choose not to go around evil.
 
2 Timothy 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
 
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Jesus says:

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
John 14:6  I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
 
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Jesus, The Word, is the way, the truth , and the life.
 
💥  The Word will never fail us nor forsake us.  (Josh.1:5 & Heb. 13:5)
 
💥  God will supply all your need.  (Phil. 4:19)
 
💥  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  (Mt. 24:13)
 
💥  Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:  For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.  (Lk 21:14-15)
 
💥  Heaven and earth shall pass away: but MY words shall not pass away.  (Lk. 21:33)
 
💥  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Take therefore no thought for the morrow:  (Mt. 6:33-34)
 
💥  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.  (James 1:5)
 
💥  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  (Phil. 4:6-7)
 
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2 Peter 1
 
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.
 
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In the New Testament Church today, God speaks to us through dreams, visions, angels, and by WORD’s brought to our mind by the Holy Spirit

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
In 1982, I was returning to Dallas by plane from Hobbs, NM, when the Holy Spirit began speaking the following sentence to me over and over:
 
"The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God ... The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God ... The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God."
 
(I had no idea what that might mean.)
 
The following day, God caused me to remember something Jimmy Swaggart had said and God showed me he needed to quit performing so much (entertaining the people) and return to preaching.  I had to get this message to Swaggart.
 
God also showed me I was to send a message concerning adultery to the preacher Jim Bakker.  I did send that message by cassette tape.
 
Jim Bakker wrote me the following reply. 
 
Dear Jesus:
 
Thank you for sending your inspiring message.
 
Jesus, Tammy Faye and I want you to know we prayed for you today ...
 
(Obviously Bakker never heard the message.)
 
Later Bakker was committing adultery with a church secretary.
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The message I had for Jimmy Swaggart concerned returning to preaching rather than entertaining the congregation with so much with music.
 
But Swaggart was having sex with a prostitute at this period of time in addition to other sins.
 
I happened to visit a small Assembly of God church during that time.  The preacher said, "We should pray for brother Swaggart."
 
It shocked me!  For I know what Paul says to do in such cases in the Bible.  (I Cor. 5)
 
Very softly I said, "Swaggart should be put out of the church."  A woman sitting in front of me turned and glared at me.
 
But this is what the apostle Paul says to do in the New Testament Bible.
 
I Corinthians 5
 
1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
 
2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
 
3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
 
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,  5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
 
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
 
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
 
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
 
13 ... Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
 
(Do what the Bible says.  Counsel and prayer will not work in such cases for the violator knows adultery and fornications are sins against God.  Do what Paul says.  Put him away from you.  Do not "eat" with him.  Turn him over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, "that the flesh may be destroyed and the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.)
 
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I had been delivering some messages of correction to the church as a prophet of God during 1982.
 
I had also been going to the cities where I was on radio and speaking to the radio audience by seminars.
 
One night, God gave me a dream.  He showed me I was in great danger of being injured at the meetings and God said this to me in the dream:  "Don't go until you see Exodus 15."
 
I cancelled all meetings for the remainder of that year.
 
John 16:2-3  They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
 
3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor ME.
 
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Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
 
💥  Acts 9:3-5  And as he (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.
 
💥  Acts 3:26  (Peter said in the synagogue:)  Unto you first God, having raised up HIS Son Jesus, sent HIM to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. 
 
Acts 4:18 And they (the high priest) called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
 
19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.  20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
 
33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
 
💥  Acts 5:17-21  Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
 
19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
 
21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught.
 
25 Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
 
26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
 
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.  30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.  31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.  32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
 
33 When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
 
38-39 (Gameliel a Pharisee said.)  And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:  39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
 
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Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Ephesians 4
 
1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
 
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
 
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
 
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.
 
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After we are born again, we grow to a maturity in Christ, where instead of reacting by our flesh when another person is out of sorts, we cause the Spirit to rule over our flesh and and choose to pray for that person rather that react.
 
This makes a significant difference in keeping us in unity and peace.
 
We help the other person greatly by prayer when help is needed.
 
We see by that person's countenance when the other person is a little down and we have the power of God to help that person through prayer.
 
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Speaking and acting from an honest and pure heart

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
The wisdom that is from above is first pure.  (James 3:17)   then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 
Here is what I think this means:
 
We cannot live in dishonest feelings and feigned words which we do not believe or feel.  First we must be honest in our hearts.
 
We live in Christ serving HIM as HE wills, not trying to be something we are not.
 
I've seen people who want to be more, who want to be like someone else but they are not called to be more.  And when that happens their heart becomes contaminated by their own desire.
 
A good heart is there to serve God as HE wills.
 
Sometimes people are influenced by devils and don't even know it.  Devils whisper words into their minds.  And when devils work, evil comes.
 
The wisdom that is from above is first "pure", coming from a good heart that is in us.
 
When we live in peace with God, we probably aren't thinking much about ourselves.
 
At our best we are joyful in God in our heart and at peace.
 
We must learn to keep our heart honest and pure.  If there is any envy of another person or strife we know there is confusion and every evil work.  (James 3:16)
 
When I am at peace, total peace, doing my own assignment, purity of heart is working in me.  It is wonderful.
 
Other people, even church people, sometimes provoke us with their words and works.  We must learn to take those matters to God in prayer rather than to try to make the church person feel good about what he has done.  For to try to make him feel good about a work he does that is not authored by God will cause us to partake of his evil work.  We become dishonest when we try to make him feel good about something that is not good and when in our own hearts we really do not see his work as being good.
 
But above all we must learn to take troublesome matters to God in prayer, pouring out our heart to God.
 
Learn to feel:  "I can talk to God about this."
 
Then when the matter is settled and God shows me to do something, I do that, basically keeping order in the church and in my own life.
 
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If I allow myself to get off, then I know I can pray asking God to forgive me and to create in me a clean heart and to renew a right spirit within me.  (Psalm 51:10)
 
We must not wrest situations to our own destruction by our own reasonings.  Instead we ask God for HIS wisdom on the matter at hand.
 
We just turn to God asking HIM to fix us.  We trust in HIS working in us.
 
And live in honesty one with another.  (Speaking no feigned words.)
 
And be joyful and live in peace.
 
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Matthew 12  (Jesus says)
 
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
 
34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
 
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
 
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
 
37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified
and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
 
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Proverbs 4
 
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
 
24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
 
25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
 
26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
 
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
 
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Beware of opening doors for devils to return to your house after you have been born again

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Matthew 12  (Jesus says)
 
43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
 
44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
 
45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
 
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Recently I was speaking with a woman who is born again.  She began to think on her past life before she was born again and I saw her countenance completely change back to that previous hopeless life.  And I saw how we can let devils back into us by going back and thinking about that life we had before we were born again.
 
Philippians 3:13-15  (Paul says)  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, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
 
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded:
 
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Jesus forgave the woman taken in adultery. 
 
Then Jesus said to her:  "Go ... and sin no more."  (John 8:11)
 
After we have been forgiven, we must not return to that sin again.
 
Hebrews 10
 
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
 
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
 
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
 
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
 
30 For we know HIM that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto ME, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge HIS people.
 
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
 
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2 Peter 2
 
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
 
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Galatians 5
 
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
 
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
 
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
 
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
 
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
 
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
 
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
 
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
 
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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Devils cause people and animals to do crazy, violent things

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Throughout the Bible, God often spoke of "unclean spirits."  (devils)
 
Mark 3:11  And unclean spirits, when they saw HIM (Jesus), fell down before HIM, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
 
Luke 6:18  And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed
 
Acts 5:16  There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
 
Luke 4:36  And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power HE (Jesus) commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
 
* Some people are influenced by devils as devils bring thought to their minds and they follow those thoughts and live according to the ideas sent by devils.
 
* Some people are possessed by devil and these devils move into their being and cause them to do all manner of violent, fierce, irrational acts.
 
* Devils work with the flesh to take a person the opposite way of the Spirit of God. 
 
Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 
I Corinthians 10:20  But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
 
John 14:27  (Jesus says)    Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
 
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John 8:43-44  (Jesus said)  Why do ye not understand MY speech? even because ye cannot hear MY word.
 
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
 
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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.
 
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Jesus casts unclean spirits (devils) out of humans.
 
Mark 5
 
1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
 
2 And when HE (Jesus) was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
 
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
 
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
 
(devils:  great strength and uncontrollable)
 
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
 
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped HIM,
 
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
 
8 For HE (Jesus) said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
 
9 And HE (Jesus) asked him, What is thy name? And he (The unclean spirit) answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
 
10 And he besought HIM (Jesus) much that HE would not send them away out of the country.
 
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
 
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
 
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
 
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John 10:10  (Jesus said)  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
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Matthew 8
 
28 And when HE (Jesus) was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met HIM two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
 
29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
 
30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
 
31 So the devils besought HIM, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
 
32 And HE said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
 
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Luke 8
 
26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
 
27 And when HE (Jesus) went forth to land, there met HIM out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
 
28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
 
29 (For HE had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
 
30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
 
31 And they besought HIM that HE would not command them to go out into the deep.
 
32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought HIM (Jesus) that HE would suffer them to enter into them. And HE suffered them.
 
33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
 
34 When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.
 
35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
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Violence and fierceness of the last days, the end times. Devils will destroy you if you allow them to do so.
 
1 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
 
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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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1 Timothy 4:1  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
 
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2 Timothy 3:1-5  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
 
13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
 
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Jesus says:
 
Matthew 24:12-13  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 
(Love of many for the scripture, the Word of God, will wax cold in last days.)
 
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The apostate churches of the last days:
 
II Thessalonians 2:3-4   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, God said to me:  "The falling away are not people leaving the churches.  The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures."
 
NASB   6 And you know what restrains him now, so that he will be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only HE (Jesus, The Word) who now restrains will do so until HE  (The Word) is removed.
 
The scriptures keep antichrist out of the church until the churches fall away from the scripture.  Then antichrist comes into those churches who change portion of scripture to another doctrine.
 
When Jesus returns, HE will destroy the apostate churches.
 
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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At all times seek righteousness and follow the way of God as you live on this earth.  For when we go a way opposite to God, we open doors for devils to enter into "our house" and even welcome devils,
 
Ephesians 4:27  Neither give place to the devil.
 
Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
 
Ephesians 4:26   Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

There is power in the Word of God for us who believe that Word and do that Word

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Some people spend years trying to change without success.  Some go to psychologists for help without any real change.  Some read self-help books hoping to change.
 
Power is in the Word of God and when God speaks to us we experience instant change for God gives us a new heart and a new Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and our flesh, the old man, is put to death, while the new creature from God appears in us.
 
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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2 Peter 1
 
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.
 
The Bible is filled with promises made by God to us, the believer.  In both the Old and New Testament we have been given exceeding great and precious promises from God.
 
Here are some of these:
 
💥  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.
 
💥  Philippians 4:6-7  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.
 
💥  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.
 
💥  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.
  
💥  Isaiah 26:3-4  THOU wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on THEE: because he trusteth in THEE. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
 
💥  Philippians 4:19  But my God shall supply all your need according to HIS riches in glory by Christ Jesus (The Word).
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Put on the whole armor of God so you can stand against the wiles of the devil

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Ephesians 6
 
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of HIS might.
 
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
 
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
 
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
 
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
 
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
 
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
 
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
 
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
 
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Dress in:
 
* truth:  The Word from God.
 
* righteousness:  Doing and saying that which God gives us for then our righteousness is authored by God.
 
* peace:  We must keep ourselves in peace continually by taking all cares and concerns to God in prayer.  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.  (Discuss all concerns with God in prayer.)
 
* shield of faith:  Surrounding our mind with faith in the Word of God; establishing ourselves and our thinking by the Word from God on the issues of this present life.
 
* helmet of salvation:  Knowing our salvation is in Jesus, The Word, and what HE says and has done. Keeping the Word of God as a helmet shielding our mind.  (Not drunk with fleshy feelings that have no power.)
 
* the sword of the Spirit:  That which the Holy Spirit has brought to our mind which is truth in the issue, the Word of God.)
 
* prayer:  watching with all perseverance and supplication for all saints
 
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2 Timothy 3  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
 
We must dress properly with the whole armor of God that we can stand against the wiles of the devil.
 
We must be sober, alert, prepared ... not just going out drunken with our own thoughts or thoughts of others. (Drunk with fleshly feelings that have no power.) 
 
The Word of God never fails.  Dress with the whole armor of God.
 
It will be pretty serious times when Jesus says this about the end times:  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.  (Mt. 24:22)
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

Born by the will of God with the Word of truth from God

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...
James 1:18  Of HIS own will begat HE us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of HIS creatures.
 
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(Comments by Joan Boney:)
 
My mother always loved reading horoscopes.
 
Before I was born again, I gave her a set of horoscope drinking mugs to please her.
 
After I was born again, I visited her in the town where she lived and when I opened her kitchen cabinet, I noticed those horoscope mugs.  I took a paper bag and began removing the mugs and putting them into the paper bag.
 
My mother was watching me and when she realized what I was about to do, she became slightly agitated and said, "Stop.  What are you doing?  I want to keep those.  You gave them to me."
 
I paid no attention at all and I continued removing the mugs and putting them into the garbage bag.
 
I took the mugs to the garbage dumpster, broke the mugs so no one else could use them and threw them into the dumpster.
 
I returned to my mother's house and went to my bedroom and got my Bible and returned to the living room where my mother was sitting and I opened the Bible and read aloud the following scripture to my mother.
 
Deuteronomy 18
 
9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
 
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
 
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
 
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
 
13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
 
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My mother sat there quietly for a few seconds after I finished reading these scriptures.  Then she said, "Well ... I guess we'd better not do that any more."
 
(With that she was born again, changed by God into a new creature.)
 
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.
 
After I returned to Dallas, my uncle wrote to me and said, "Your mother's changed!  She's really changed!"
 
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.
 
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When Pam Padgett was in High School one of her classmates was killed on a motorcycle.
 
Pam had never before considered that someone her age could die.
 
As she thought about this, she realized that her only hope was God and that none of the rituals taught in the Catholic church could save her.  Only by God could she be saved. (The Word of truth.)  And if she died at that second, she would go to hell.
 
Pam was terrified.  And she cried out to God.  "Please help me.  If there is any way I can be saved, please save me."
 
After praying Pam realized there was something of God, in her.
 
A few years later, she was reading the Bible and saw a scripture and knew this is what was in her.
 
I Corinthians 3:16   Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?  
 
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In 1975, I was reading a book about sin.  God spoke to me and said:  "Joan.  You know all those mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."
 
"Sins?"  I thought they were mistakes.
 
(With that Word of truth, God caused me to be born again.)
 
I went forward at church when I was 15 and was baptized ... but nothing changed in my life.  I continued to pursue my own ambitions.  I don't ever remember thinking about God or the Bible.
 
But after receiving this word from God, I was very different.  Now I wanted to read the Bible.  I wanted to hear about God.  I no longer wanted to be with the worldly people I had been with before this word came to me.  And all I wanted to talk about was God.
 
After this happened, I said to my best friend, "Oh by the way Donna, I don't think I've been a Christian until now."  She was very excited and said, "Joanie ... come back here.  What did you just say?  I repeated, "I don't think I've been a Christian until now.  God spoke to me and now I think I am a Christian although I thought I was a Christian before, I don't think I was until now."
 
God speaks to us and even calls us by name, and that changes everything immediately.
 
Then we are "dead" to the world and alive to God, that we may serve God instead of serving our own selves and devils.
 
After God spoke to me, I was baptized a second time.  As the minister lowered me into the water, I heard, "This is like being buried with Christ."  As I came out of the water, I heard, "This is like being raised with Christ."
 
Colossians  3
 
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.
 
Born again:  Dead to this world.  Alive to God. God opens our eyes by giving us the Word of truth and this Word causes us to be a new creature.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

We pray. Then how do we know which ideas are from God?

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
The first thing God gave me to recognize ideas that HE brought to me was this:
 
God's yoke is easy and HIS burden is light.
 
If the plan or idea that comes is overly expensive and very difficult to do, I pray again about that matter for I do not believe it is a plan from God when it is a heavy burden.
 
Matthew 11  Jesus says
 
28 Come unto ME, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
 
29 Take MY yoke upon you, and learn of ME; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
 
30 For MY yoke is easy, and MY burden is light.
 
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Here is a promise from God for us if we lack wisdom concerning how to do something.
 
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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James 3 shows us how to recognize the ideas that come from our flesh and from devils and also wisdom that is from above:
 
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
 
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
 
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
 
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
 
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

God spoke to Abraham and he followed God. God speaks to us today and we follow God

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 
Genesis 12
 
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
 
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
 
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
 
4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
 
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God speaks to us today causing us to be raised from the dead of this world.  God gives us a new heart, HIS heart.  And God gives us a new Spirit, HIS Holy Spirit.  And thereby we are made to be new creatures so we can serve God in HIS holiness and righteousness.
 
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.
 
To think on the past is to return to death.  So we go forward, "pressing on" in the Word of God, thinking on that Word and doing that Word.  As God intended us to do when God caused us to be born again.
 
Hebrews 10:38  God says:  Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, MY soul shall have no pleasure in him.
 
So we work to keep the past dead and buried! 
 
And we go forward in Christ, The Word.
 
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Pam Padgett worked for Fed Ex as a computer programmer for over 20 years.
 
When it was time for her to retire, God led her by The Word bringing the follow to her attention:
 
Micah 2:10  Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
 
Pam took an early retirement from Fed Ex.  One month later God told me in a dream to start a blog.  I called Pam immediately and asked her to do the computer work required to set up a blog. (March 2012)
 
Then in 2015, I was lead by God to publish books on Amazon and Pam did the computer work.
 
Then in February, 2020, I was shown to record and publish Podcasts, and Pam set this up and helped me buy recording equipment and microphone and she did all the technical work for the Podcast.
 
And in 2019, when I could no longer live alone, Pam brought me into her house to live and we continued the ministry work, blog-books-podcasts, from her home.
 
God had another work for Pam at that point in time and she followed God out of her secular work and into the ministry of "helps".
 
I Corinthians 12:28  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 caused me, Joan Boney, to be born again by HIS Word.
 
Shortly after I was born again in 1975, in the night while I was asleep, I was transported into heaven.  I was with God and Christ and the Holy Spirit.  (I saw no physical images.  It was all spiritual.)  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 days after this, the exact same thing happened a second time.
 
I am ordained apostle and prophet and I think being taken into to heaven had to do with this calling on my life.  I was certainly on fire for things of God after that.  All I wanted to do is read the Bible and learn about God and do scriptures.
 
For the next 5 years God taught me Bible.
 
On the night of January 10, 1980, while I was sleeping in the night a very strong trumpet-like voice spoke 3 words into my ear:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"
 
When I found KWJS to be a radio station, I said to God, "Are YOU telling me to go on radio?  I wouldn't know how to do that."
 
And immediately the Holy Spirit spoke to my mind, "Call the radio station manager."
 
I called the manager at KWJS that same morning.  I said to him, "God might be showing me to go on radio.  How would you do that?"
 
He 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 day and put it into the mail.
 
Within 5 days I was broadcasting exhortations for the church on radio KWJS.
 
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The pattern is the same:  God speaks.  We hear and believe it is God.  And we do that which is appropriate with the message we heard spoken by God.
 
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John 10  Jesus says:
 
27 MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME:
 
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
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* For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

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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