Building your house on the word from God

When you think your prayers have failed

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Recently it appeared my prayers had failed.  I was devastated!  But even if God didn't answer my prayers on this subject, I was determined to hold onto my faith in God.  
"Though HE (God) slay me, yet will I trust in HIM."  (Job 13:15)
This is a report of this story of holding onto God even when it seems we have failed.
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God will make us the head and not the tail if we follow HIM

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
When we follow God, HE makes us above only and not beneath.  It is by the Holy Spirit leading us in the decisions of this life that we know what to do.  The Holy Spirit guides us into all truth and teaches us all things concerning the issues that are blocking our path as we set out to accomplish goals.  The Holy Spirit even shows us things to come, as needed.  (John 14:26 & John 16:13)  
Deuteronomy 28  ... 13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
 14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 
God began teaching me these things about being led by the Spirit of God as soon as I was born again in 1975. 
I know nothing more important than these godly concepts.
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They set their abominations in the house called by God's name to defile it

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Throughout the Bible, Old and New Testaments, we see men setting up things in the churches and congregations which have not been ordained by God.
And because of this, God brings HIS wrath upon them to judge that which they did.
By this the great tribulation of the end times comes upon this present world and the unruly churches before this world is destroyed by fire.
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The arrogance coming from church goers concerning Coronavirus concerns me

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Sadly, there can be much arrogance substituted for real faith in the virus problem today.  True faith comes when we hear from God individually concerning the matter at hand.  Many are showing a type of fleshly pride in saying God will not allow themselves to be hurt in this current virus problem. 
We pray and ask God for protection ... then we follow that which is spoken to us in the matter at hand ... 
These people I've been hearing, show no basis other than religious pride in their statements, being recorded in the news programs which I have heard, concerning what will happen or will not happen to themselves.  And they often go forth in a form of fleshly pride which greatly concerns me for I do not witness a true Spirit operating in them when I've heard them say the things they are saying.  There has been an absence of godly humility, thus showing others a form of stubbornness and faith in themselves, which they think witnesses God, but is actually harmful to all. 
I've witnessed this false faith many times in church member's statements through the past decades.  
It is only when God gives us a word on the situation at hand that we can operate in "true" faith. 
Examples of real faith based on a word from God by HIS Spirit are given on this Podcast.
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Following God by HIS Spirit

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
This Podcast provides examples showing what it means to follow God by HIS Spirit.  For all who are led by the Spirit are the sons of God ... and the others are counterfeits calling themselves Christians.
Few know what it means to be lead by the Spirit of God or even how to identify those ideas which are from the Spirit of God.
It is truly critical for us to know these things in the current period of time, for how do you go forward in a time when the whole world is stumbling about in chaos. You don't want to be following them.
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Shocking stories of attending church meetings during Coronavirus

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
A great deal of attending church gatherings has to do with social attachments.  People think they are worshipping God by going to church but many are doing something else and don't even know it.
Even in the midst of the Coronavirus of 2020, and the order for "social distancing", many continue to gather at their church groups.  I'm sure they consider it a lack of faith not to attend.  But often they are just craving social action in a period of extreme and unusual inactivity.
I doubt there are many "real" Christians out there in churches anyway.
For the real Christians, we know it has to do with hearing from God by HIS Word and following God. You can do that wherever you are.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.  Romans 8:14
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If we live in debt, as this world does, how can we not be swept away with the problems that come upon this world?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
The first thing God taught me as a Christian is to get out of debt.  I did this.  And I continued to live debt free.  So when Coronavirus hit, I had no debt.  This changes everything!
The way this world lives is a very hard yoke.  
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.  (Colossians 3:1-2)
Instead of following after things, let us follow after scriptures.
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Do you want to follow God and please HIM?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Are you trying to serve God or are you trying to get God to serve you?
We might start out as new Christians hoping God will serve us by giving us what we want in this present life.  Along the way we will likely change to the concept that we are to serve God.
Key prayers:  Deliver me from evil.  Help me to be free to go in the way of God.  Keep me from doing those temptations of this life.  THY will be done!
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God shows us the truth

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Twice in March 2020, God opened my eyes to see what scripture meant.  I had read these two sections of scripture for decades without understanding.  Then God allowed me to understand.  That is the way it is sometimes with Bible.  One scripture is in Old Testament and the other in New Testament.  What God showed me is revealed in this Podcast.
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Mistakes are actually sins showing us we failed to pray or we followed the wrong spirit.

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
All mistakes are sins.  We forgot God in doing that which we did.  For had we consulted with God in prayer and had we waiting until God gave us a word showing us what to do, then we would not have made that mistake.
Ideas come to us from our own flesh and desires of our flesh ... Ideas come from devils who want to destroy us ... Ideas comes from God.
We have to choose which way we will go.
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To go forth after Coronavirus, you must be prepared to follow the Spirit of God, for things will be different.

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Coronavirus was like a nuclear explosion over the entire world, changing lives completely. Things in the future will be very different.
When we step out of our houses after Coronavirus ends, safety for us, will be in our seeking God and following that which God shows us.  For it will be very different.
It sort of reminds me of the pictures we have seen of bombings of cities in WWII.  People are shut up inside during the bombings.  When they come out after the "all clear" signal, they are shocked to see many of the buildings they once knew are gone.  It is a completely different world and requires a different way of life to survive in the rubble.
If you know how to follow God and you do "that", you should be fine even in the changes.
There is no reason to waste energy complaining over the difference, for it will be different from before.  Just seek God and go that way!
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Is there any scripture in the New Testament which encourages the divorced woman to remarry?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Today divorced women in churches often look for men to marry.  They even attend singles classes at churches to try to find husbands.
The Bible presents several scriptures in the New Testament which shows us that the divorced woman commits adultery if she remarries.
But is there any scripture which encourages a divorced woman to think she can remarry after divorce?
We must learn to set our goals for this life based upon that which the Bible says in the New Testament by the Spirit of God which shows the will of God for this present life.
What does the Bible say?
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Christians starting the race, but then fogetting to seek God along the way

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Many start the race but few finish.
Along the way, other things become more interesting to some church people than the Word of God, or things can become more important to them, and their love of God and their love for the Word of God grows cold and they no longer want to read the Bible or spiritual blogs.
When this begins to happen we must recognize it quickly and pray:  God, please help me.  Please don't let me grow cold to YOU or to the Word.  Please give me the spark I need to cause that fire for the Word to light in my heart.  Please don't let me be swept away.
I believe this is something that happens to all at various points in life.
We have to fight for faith at that point in time.  And a starting place is prayer.
Jesus warned:  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.  (Mt. 24:12-13)
The honeymoon is great!  But life destroys some marriages.  We have to work to keep that fire for the Word of God burning within us as long as we live on this present earth.
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Trusting in the living God instead of in uncertain riches

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Things can change very rapidly in this present world.  In the Bible, the apostle Paul warns us to put our trust in God rather than in "uncertain riches."  (I Timothy 6)
Can you trust in the unseen, instead of in the seen? 
In the end, everything we can see with our natural eyes will be destroyed.  
If we trust in any human or in a government of men, we put ourselves in great risk.  Some are trusting in their church group and think they are trusting in God.  Usually those who are trusting in their church group tell other people about that church group.  When we speak with other people are we telling them about the living God and what God has done?  Or are we speaking about a minister or a church group?
There is still time to make an adjustment, at least I think so, although unexpected things are happening rather rapidly.
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Do we have to go to a church building or a prayer room at a church building to pray?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
During the Coronavirus news information of early March, 2020, a report came on CNN concerning closings of schools, businesses, museums, and church buildings.  The news announcer said, "So you will just have to pray "at home".
I laughed ... for to me, you pray to God wherever you are.
Later I recalled a time, before I was born again, when one of my friends was diagnosed with terminal cancer.  I must have thought I had to go to a church building to pray for Betty because I went to a chapel at First Methodist Church in Dallas.  Betty died.
I suspect many people, before they are born again, think they must go to a specific place to seek God or to pray.
Consider what Jesus said in the Bible.
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He who endures to the end

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
It is not a matter of starting the race.  We have to endure to the end.  Jesus says: Matthew 24 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.
How do we "endure"?
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Who are the really godly people?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
In the United States today, there are millions of people who identify themselves as Christians. But who are the really godly people?  Are you one of them?  If so this Podcast is for you, to help you.
People in churches today often think nothing will happen to them because they attend church.
They should learn from the examples in the Old Testament where God raised up destroyers against the children of Israel because they refused HIS word and set up idols to worship instead of worshipping the Word of God.
This time when the judgments come from God, it will be the end of this present world and terrible sights.  (Revelation 8-16)
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Give yourself to reading, to exhoration, to doctrine

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
As the wickedness of the world and the churches increases, we know we draw nearer to the return of Jesus. If you work at a secular job, you will be exposed to many concepts contrary to Bible. This world loves to be wise in it's own eyes. You have to uproot those spots that come from worldly sayings of men and bring spiritual contamination. We also encounter such on our television programs. We must be alert and cleanse ourselves from these spots of this world. 
The apostle Peter told us to do the following as we wait for Jesus.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.  II Peter 3:14
If we do this, we should be ready for Jesus when HE returns.
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Can the godly live with the ungodly?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Making choices ... as a Christian.
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Is Coronavirus the beginning of sorrows. The time comes that God brings HIS judgment upon the evil.

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Coronavirus does not fit the woes brought upon this world in the great tribulation described in Revelation 8-16,  But this plague might be part of "the beginning of sorrows".
Jesus said:  Matthew 24:6-8  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.
For nation shall rise against nation (perhaps WWII), and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.All these are the beginning of sorrows.
We have to consider time in the sight of God is different from time in the humans concepts.
II Peter 3:8   But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
This explains how WWII could have fit into this "beginning of sorrows" that was to come before the great tribulation, for in God's sight it has been a "blink of the eye" in time between WWII and now.
The apostle Paul said Jesus could not return until the apostasy came into the New Testament churches.  (II Thessalonians 2   NASB)  We are seeing that now!    
The KJV says same thing but refers to the apostasy as "the falling away".  Churches would fall away from scripture.
This sets the stage for the return of Jesus.
Also the increase of wickedness is a sign preceding the wrath of God that is to come upon the whole world in the great tribulation.
We often think, "It can't get worse," only to see an increase in vileness of humans on this present earth.
All this points to the coming of Jesus as HE will gather HIS church and take the godly to the New Jerusalem which God has prepared for them who love HIM.
But all who do wrong will be judged by God for the wrong they are doing, even when that person says he is a Christian.  So beware!
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Buried with Christ. Raised with Christ

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
Dead to sin and alive to God, after we are born again.  We are created as new creatures by the Spirit of God after we believe the Word of God.  Nothing equals this.  Nothing we can obtain or attain to on this earth can equal being born again and having the Spirit of God in us.  All Christians are sealed with the Spirit of God after they believe, according to Ephesians 1.  This Podcasts shows moments in life with the Spirit of God.
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Dealing with the idols in the churches today

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
The New Testament church began with the resurrection of Jesus.  Jesus called HIS ministers: "apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers."   
Paul is an example of one of the first of these New Testament church ministers appointed to the church after Jesus arose.  (Ephesians 4:11-12)
Idols were added to the churches as something for the people to use in worship, much as the golden calves were used as idols in the Old Testament for the people to worship.
So ministers were set up by men to be worshipped and they were called, "Reverend", priests, pope, archbishop, cardinal, and such, none of which were in the New Testament Bible.
("Priest" is Old Testament.  No minister in New Testament church in the NT Bible is called "priest.")
People were also taught many things to do at church which were not in the New Testament Bible.
And we have what we see today in churches.  All manner of idols.
God will strongly deal with these idols when Jesus returns.  In the meantime, we who are of God, must turn from idols in today's New Testament churches.
First, we have to learn to recognize these idols.
Please listen to this Podcast.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
The Internet went off a few days ago and it was like life as I know it ended.  What would I do all day?  Then I remembered to pray, "Lord, please fill my day!"  I thought of how terrible it will be in the days of the great tribulation when these things that run our lives disappear.  Those on this earth will be frantic.
A few days later, I awoke and was praying, "God, please fill my day with joy."  And I heard, "The joy of the Lord is your strength!"  
The Lord is The Word.  When the Holy Spirit brings us a word, that "Word"  is joy and strength and comfort and peace.
Examples of the Joy of the Lord.
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Staying on the Highway of God

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
God has a road for each of us to take!  We drive onto that road when we hear a word from the Holy Spirit of God and do that instruction.  And we stay on that road by continuing to do that instruction.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.  Romans 8:14
Examples are given in this podcast. 
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I don't do works of God unless God shows me to do that work

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...
When God authors a work of God, I've always found the money is there do to that work.  I do not do works from my own ideas or my own conjurings.  I have to hear from God to do that work before I do that work. 
In the day of judgment there will be a very severe penalty upon those persons who come saying they have done a work when that work was not authored by God.  (see: Matthew 7:21-23)
Therefore we must be very careful to see that those works we do for God on this present earth are actually authored by God.
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