Building your house on the word from God

(This podcast was previously published on September 28, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Deuteronomy 14:2  For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto HIMSELF, above all the nations that are upon the earth.   The children of Israel were chosen by God to be HIS people in the Old Testament.   Noah found grace in the sight of God and God saved Noah from the great flood.   Abraham was chosen by God and was given promises concerning the nations that were to come from him.   Genesis 12:1-4  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: 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:  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 God gave promises to both Isaac and Jacob, Abraham's son and grandson.   God spoke to them also and made HIMSELF known.   To Isaac, God said:  Go not down into Egypt; dwell into the land which I shall tell thee of:  Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;  And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed MY voice, and kept MY charge, MY commandments, MY statutes, and MY laws.  (Genesis 26:2-5)   God revealed HIMSELF to Jacob:  And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.   And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.   And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;  And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.  And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.  (Genesis 28:10-15)   Later Jacob was renamed by God as Israel.  HIS 12 sons were the children of Israel, the 12 tribes of Israel.   To Joseph, one of the 12 sons, God revealed HIMSELF by dreams.  His brothers hated Joseph because the dreams showed Joseph ruling over them.  So they sold Joseph into bondage and Joseph was taken down into Egypt before the great famine came on the earth.  God gave wisdom to Joseph and therefore all that Joseph did prospered above all men.  Pharaoh saw this and made Joseph a ruler in Egypt, second only to himself.   70 men were the number of the children of Israel who went down into Egypt at the time of the great famine.   The generations of the children of Israel spent 430 years in Egypt and when they were delivered from Egypt by God, their number of men above the age of 20 was 603,550. (Exodus 38:26)   Even under the years of adversity in Egypt, God multiplied them greatly as God said he would do in HIS promises to Abraham.   In all this we see when God reveals HIMSELF to an individual, God becomes their God.   💥💥💥   In the New Testament, God chose people to Himself and opened their eyes to see things of God and caused those individuals to be born again.  And God put HIS name on them and gave each of them HIS Holy Spirit to teach them and guide them and show them things to come.  (John 14:26 & John 16:13)   The apostle Peter says:   I Peter 2   9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of HIM who hath called you out of darkness into HIS marvellous light:   (We were "chosen" by God for salvation and God "called" us out of darkness by HIS Word and God opened our eyes so we could see the Word of God and we were "born again" by the Spirit of God.)   10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.   The apostle Paul explains:  For HE saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.  (Romans 9:15-16)   God causes us to be born again as HIS own children.  We no longer serve this world as we once did but now God frees us so that we can serve HIM.  We are delivered by God and redeemed by God by the will of God. God opens our eyes to see things of the kingdom of God.  God causes us to believe the Word.   Romans 6   20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.   21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.   22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.   23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.   💥💥💥   God speaks to us individually, we are called by God, and changed into new people by God.   The apostle Paul:  And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:  And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME?  (Acts 9:3-4)   Paul was traveling with other men and they saw that bright light and heard a voice speaking from heaven but saw no man.   It was Paul (Saul) Jesus called by name.   And Paul explains that Jesus said to him:  But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;  Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,  To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in ME.  (Acts 26:16-18)   💥💥💥   Joan Boney:  I was in my bedroom when God said to me by HIS Spirit:  "Joan ... you know all those mistakes you've been making all these years.  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."  (August 5, 1975)   I was changed immediately, born again, chosen by God, even named by name by God.   💥💥💥   Pam Padgett:  A schoolmate was killed on a motorcycle.  When this happened, Pam, for the first time, realized someone her age could die.  (God opened Pam's understanding to see this.)  Also Pam knew only God could save her.  (God showed her this truth.)  So Pam called out to God asking God to save her.   Many people in Pam's circle heard of this boy being killed on a motorcycle but there is no evidence that any of those people understood they could also be killed and only God could save them.   God chose Pam among all those people and God revealed truth to Pam and cause her to turn to HIM.   Salvation is being chosen by God to salvation.   Acts 13:48  and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.   God chooses each individual and opens the understanding for that individual and then that individual believes to salvation.   It is not that we choose God but rather God chooses us.   Thus the apostle Paul says:   Romans 9:18  Therefore hath HE mercy on whom HE will have mercy, and whom HE will HE hardeneth.   We are the chosen people of God as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the children of Israel were the chosen people of God.   And God reveals HIMSELF to us who are HIS chosen as HE revealed HIMSELF to those in the Old Testament who are HIS chosen.   Acts 2:47   And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.   Understanding is from God.  God opens our eyes and then we believe and understand.  It is not of our own thinking that we understand.  God causes us to understand and to believe HIS Word.  Thus salvation is of God and we are chosen by God.   💥💥💥   Ephesians 1   Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:   2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.   3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:   4 According as HE hath chosen us in HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before HIM in love:   5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of HIS will,   6 To the praise of the glory of HIS grace, wherein HE hath made us accepted in the beloved.   7 In WHOM we have redemption through HIS blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of HIS grace;   8 Wherein HE hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;   9 Having made known unto us the mystery of HIS will, according to HIS good pleasure which HE hath purposed in Himself:   10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times HE might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in HIM:   11 In WHOM also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of HIM who worketh all things after the counsel of HIS own will:   12 That we should be to the praise of HIS glory, who first trusted in Christ.   13 In WHOM ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in WHOM also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,   14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of HIS glory.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 27, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   I never ask anyone, "Where do you go to church?"   We "are" the church.   In the Old Testament, God said:   Deuteronomy 12:30   Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.   The teacher of our Bible class once said:  "Never look into other religions or read about them.  Just study the Bible and when a wrong doctrine comes along, you will recognize it as being wrong when you know the real thing from the Bible."  I really believe that is the correct approach and that is what I have done for the past 40+ years.  I just keep reading the Bible.   💥💥💥   Deuteronomy 12:32  God says:  What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.   There is one doctrine of Christ for the New Testament church and we find that doctrine in the New Testament Bible.   💥💥💥   A divorced woman told Pam Padgett that she was Messianic Jew, believing in Jesus.   Then this same woman told Pam that she had a new boyfriend.   Pam explained that as a divorced woman, if she should remarry, she would commit adultery, according to the Bible.   This Jewish woman said, "Oh, we have our own doctrine at our church."   When I heard this story, I shouted out, "There is only one doctrine and that is the New Testament Bible."   I Corinthians 7   10-11 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:  But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.   39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.   Romans 7:2-3  For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.  So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.   Mark 10   Jesus says:   11 Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.   12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.   💥💥💥   Ephesians 4   4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;   5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,   6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.   💥💥💥   The doctrine of Christ is the New Testament Bible.   II Timothy 3   16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:   17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog  

(This podcast was previously published on September 26, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Deuteronomy 12:5  But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put HIS name there, even unto HIS habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:   In the New Testament church today, God chooses where HE will put HIS name.   Acts 2:47   And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.   God opens the eyes of those persons whom HE has chosen and gives those individuals understanding causing them to be born again as a new creature, a Christian.   We recognize them by the Spirit of God which is in them for we have that same Spirit in us.   Acts 13:48  And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.   Salvation is of God, of the will of God.   When God chooses that individual for salvation, God opens that person's eyes and all of a sudden he sees the truth of God.   It is all of God by the will of God.   There can be a group of people sitting together and all of a sudden one in the group sees.   That is the way it was with Paul on the road to Damascus.  There were other men traveling in the group with Paul.  But it was Paul's life that was changed forever when Jesus spoke from heaven.  Though all the men saw light around them and all the men heard a voice from heaven, it was Paul who was called by Jesus and changed forever.  Jesus even said:  "Saul, Saul" ... calling him by name.   Acts 9   1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,   2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.   3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:   4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME?   5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.   6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? (Instantly changed.)   And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.   7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.   We see an instant change in Paul.  Paul was enroute to Damascus to try to find Christians so he could bind them and carry them to prison.  But when the voice from heaven spoke, Paul was changed immediately from that person that he was before hearing that voice.   There was no learning involved.  It was instant change.  Paul was born again.   II 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.   💥💥💥   We are not chosen by God because we are worthy.  We have done no good work causing us to be chosen by God.   We are chosen by God because it is the will of God for us to be saved and it is the will of God that HIS name would be placed on us by HIS Spirit.   💥💥💥   I was reading a book about sin when God spoke to me and said, "Joan ... you know all these mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."   I was very shocked.  And I was changed immediately.   I thought I was changed by that book I was reading so I went to a Christian book store and bought several copies of that book and gave these books to many people thinking they would also be changed as I had been changed.   But it was not that book that changed me.  God changed me by HIS own will according to HIS purpose.   💥💥💥   If you were saved at the time you heard a preacher, you might have tried to get others to hear that preacher thinking they would be saved as you were.   It was not the preacher who saved us.  It was God opening our eyes to HIS truth.  We were not saved by our own will.  It was God's will for us.   We are the elect, chosen by God, in such cases.   Paul explains this in Romans 9.   6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:   7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.   8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.   9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.   10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;   11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of HIM that calleth;)   12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.   13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.   14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.   15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.   16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.   17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew MY power in thee, and that MY name might be declared throughout all the earth.   18 Therefore hath HE mercy on whom HE will have mercy, and whom HE will HE hardeneth.   💥💥💥   After God chooses to reveal Jesus, the Word, to us from heaven and causes us to be born again, we overcome the problems as we go through this present life by turning to God and hearing from God.  We go in the way shown us by God as long as we live on this earth, overcoming the problems through that Word given us by God in the situations of this life.   And Jesus says at the end of our lives on this earth:   Revelation 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of MY God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of MY God, and the name of the city of MY God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from MY God: and I will write upon him MY new name.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 25, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Peter walked on water at the Word of Jesus ... but then when Peter looked at the circumstances, faith failed Peter, but Jesus saved Peter.   Matthew 14   22 And straightway Jesus constrained HIS disciples to get into a ship, and to go before HIM unto the other side, while HE sent the multitudes away.   23 And when HE had sent the multitudes away, HE went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, HE was there alone.   24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.   25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.   26 And when the disciples saw HIM walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.   27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.   28 And Peter answered HIM and said, Lord, if it be THOU, bid me come unto THEE on the water.   29 And HE said, Come.   And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.   30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.   31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth HIS hand, and caught HIM, and said unto HIM, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?   💥💥💥   The children of Israel disobeyed God and they showed no faith in God, so a penalty came upon them.   Numbers 13   25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.   26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.   27 And they told him (Moses), and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.   28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.   29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.   30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.   31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.   (They discounted the strength of God and were looking only at the circumstances which they saw with their natural eyes.)   32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.   33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.   Because of their evil report and disbelief in God, God placed a penalty upon them.   The ones who did not believe would die in that wilderness and would not enter into the land which God promised to Abraham.   Therefore they had to wander in the wilderness for 40 years until all of that generation who showed lack of faith in God had died.   💥💥💥   Deuteronomy 2   1 (Moses says) Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.   2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,   3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.   4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:   5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.   (to the heritage of Esau)   6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.   7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: HE knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.   💥💥💥   God provides for us where HE places us today and we lack nothing as we follow God.   God speaks to us today by HIS Spirit and when we follow that which God tells us, we lack nothing in this present life.   God spoke to me by HIS Spirit in 1975 and caused me to be born again.  After that God took me into heaven and merged me into the body of Jesus, causing me to be one with the Word of God.  This same thing God did twice, on two separate nights.  Then God taught me by HIS Spirit for the next 3 or 4 years and prepared me for the work of the ministry in the offices of apostle and prophet according to Ephesians 4:11-12.   I closed my small business on July 31, 1979, to go into the ministry.   I had no where to go.   I just stayed at home and waited for the next 5 1/2 months.   On the night of January 10, 1980, in the night, what I believe to have been an angel of the Lord, spoke these three words to me:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"   By this, God put me on radio to exhort the church for the next few years, through 1984.   Then in 2012, God gave me a dream showing me to start a blog.  Since that time, to date, we have posted 14,229 exhortations which have gone all over the world with 1,077,117 page views of those exhortations.   Then God gave me a dream leading me to start presenting Podcasts in February, 2020.  To date, I have recorded 582 Podcasts with 13,003 downloads.   At every point, God showed me what to do, things I had never before even considered.   Finances were supplied largely by the sale of ministry property no longer needed in Texas.   There is no lack.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 24, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Deuteronomy 1   21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.   22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.   23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:   24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.   25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.   26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:   27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, HE hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.   28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.   29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.   30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, HE shall fight for you, according to all that HE did for you in Egypt before your eyes;   31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.   32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,   33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.   34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,   35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,   36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.   37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.   38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.   39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.   40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.   (So for the next 40 years they wandered in the wilderness until all those men who doubted had died.  After that they crossed over Jordan and entered the land and began to possess the land.  But they had to fight for the land.)   💥💥💥   I Corinthians 10:11  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.   Psalm 78   7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep HIS commandments:   8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.   9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.   (It is a terrible thing to be armed by God and to turn back in the day of battle.)   10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in HIS law;   11 And forgat HIS works, and HIS wonders that HE had shewed them.   💥💥💥   Numbers 13:30  And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.   Caleb knew God would cause them to overcome.   Our faith must also be in God and HIS ability and we must depend on HIM as we do our jobs on this present earth!   Joshua 1   5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.   6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.   7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.   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.   9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.   💥💥💥   God has given us HIS Spirit to teach us and guide us and lead us.  And we are sealed with that Holy Spirit of Jesus until the day of our redemption.   Ephesians 1   4 According as HE hath chosen us in HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before HIM in love:   5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to HIMSELF, according to the good pleasure of HIS will,   6 To the praise of the glory of HIS grace, wherein HE hath made us accepted in the beloved.   7 In whom we have redemption through HIS blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of HIS grace;   8 Wherein HE hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;   9 Having made known unto us the mystery of HIS will, according to HIS good pleasure which HE hath purposed in HIMSELF:   10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times HE might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in HIM:   11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of HIM who worketh all things after the counsel of HIS own will:   12 That we should be to the praise of HIS glory, who first trusted in Christ.   13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,   14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of HIS glory.   We must do our job as given us by God.   💥💥💥💥💥    * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 23, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   God has given to each of us an assignment to fulfill HIS purpose while we live on this earth.   In the Old Testament, God gave portions of lands to HIS people but they had to go up and possess that land though God had given it to them.   Deuteronomy 1   21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.   💥💥💥   If you are married you have that land to which you tend day and night for the remainder of your life on this earth.   Each of us need God's wisdom to care for our assignment.   And God has promised to us:   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.   Hebrews 13:5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for HE hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.   💥💥💥   God has given us all that we need to do that to which HE has assigned us.  There is no lack.  There is no want.   We are well able, through God, who has given us HIS Holy Spirit to live in us and to teach us and to guide us.   💥💥💥   I Corinthians 12   27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.   28 And God hath set some in the church (to care for the church), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.   We are well equipped by God to do all that God assigns for us to do.   💥💥💥   Psalm 23   1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.   2 HE maketh me to lie down in green pastures: HE leadeth me beside the still waters.   3 HE restoreth my soul: HE leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for HIS name's sake.   4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for THOU art with me; THY rod and THY staff they comfort me.   5 THOU preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: THOU anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.   6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. 💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 22, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   God speaks to Moses:   Exodus 33   14 And HE (God) said, MY presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.   15 And he (Moses) said unto HIM (God), If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.   16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and THY people have found grace in THY sight? is it not in that THOU goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and THY people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.   It is impossible for light and darkness to co-exist in the same room.   When the Word comes to us, we become light.  That Word separates us from the darkness.   Hebrews 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.   💥💥💥   God protects HIS people as they do HIS commandments:   Exodus 34   23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.   24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.   💥💥💥   God led HIS people through the wilderness:   Exodus 40   34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.   35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.   36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:   37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.   38 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.   💥💥💥   The children who belong to God today are led by the Spirit of God.   Romans 8:14   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 21, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Genesis 14   21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.   22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,   23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:   💥💥💥   I don't want to win a lottery.   I want my "wealth" (or what money I have) to come from God like Abraham vowed to God.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 20, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   I Corinthians 12   4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.   5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.   6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.   7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.   8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;   9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;   (There is a spiritual gift of "faith.")   10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:   11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as HE (God) will.   💥💥💥   There is spiritual gift of faith.   This is a faith that is beyond our comprehension.  We simply believe God has spoken to us.  We have no evidence except for our belief.   We certainly can't explain this to other humans, except perhaps to those who have experienced the same faith that they have heard something from God.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 19, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   The one thing that is the same between the Old Testament church and the New Testament church is this:  The ones who believed in God, believed God was speaking and they did that which God said to do.   💥💥💥   In the building of the tabernacle, we see the following testimony:   Exodus 39:32  Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.   In the Old Testament, God spoke to Moses and Moses delivered the Word of God to the people.   In the New Testament, we follow that which the Holy Spirit says to us in the issues of this present life.   When God gives us a scripture, we do that scripture.   When God brings to us a concept, an idea, we do that idea in the issues of this present life.   💥💥💥   Where do we worship God?  How do we worship God in today's church?   John 4   19 The woman saith unto HIM (to Jesus), Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.   20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.   21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.   22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.   23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship HIM.   24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth.   💥💥💥   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.   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.   Today we also see HIM who is invisible as we follow the Spirit of God, doing as God shows us to do by the Spirit.   God is invisible, being a spirit.  The Holy Spirit is invisible.  We follow that which is not seen by human eyes.  For God speaks to us by HIS Spirit and we follow HIM, believing that which we have heard was God speaking, and we believe what HE tells us. and we do that which HE tells us, thus resting in Him, in HIS Word to us.   This is the New Testament church today.  Hearing the Word God speaks by HIS Spirit and believing it is God who spoke to us and doing that which God tells us to do.   Thus we worship God in spirit and in truth.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 17, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Hebrews 1   1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,   2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by HIS Son, whom HE hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also HE made the worlds;   3 Who being the brightness of HIS glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of HIS power, when HE had by HIMSELF purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;   💥💥💥   Today Jesus sits at the right hand of God, and speaks to us, the children of God, by HIS Holy Spirit who lives in each person who believes in HIM.   By the Holy Spirit of Jesus we know what God wants us to do on this present earth in the issues of this present life.   The Spirit of Truth teaches us all things, reminds us of all that Jesus says, guides us into all truth, and shows us things to come as HE brings to our mind truths and concepts concerning this present life.   Therefore the apostle Paul says:   Romans 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.   The flesh would lead us to do the following things:   Galatians 5   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.   The Holy Spirit of Jesus leads us to do the following:   Galatians 5   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.   As we follow the Holy Spirit, the ideas brought by the Holy Spirit, we will not fulfill the desires of our flesh.   Galatians 5:16   This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 16, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   God called Moses to come up to HIM and Moses was with God 40 days in the mountain, and God gave Moses commandments for the children of Israel.   All his life, God prepared for Moses to lead HIS people.  The call of God was on Moses even from his youth.  God arranged for Moses to be taken into Pharaoh's  daughter's house as a baby where he was "learned in all the ways of the Egyptians" and he was in a very high position in Egypt.   We read the following about Moses:   Acts 7   20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:   21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.   22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.   23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.   24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:   25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.   (We see that Moses knew even then that he would be used by God to deliver the children of Israel.)   26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?   27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?   (In fact, God had made Moses to be a ruler and judge over the people of Israel and that would happen 40-years later when the time was right.)   28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?   29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.   When God revealed HIMSELF to Moses when Moses was 80-years-old in the land of Midian and called Moses and charged Moses to go back to Egypt where he would deliver the children of Israel, we see the following:   Exodus 3:10-11  God said to Moses:  Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth MY people the children of Israel out of Egypt.   11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?   But 40 years earlier when Moses killed the Egyptian and freed the man of Israel, Moses knew he would be used by God to deliver the Israelites from Egypt.   In God's time, this would happen.  Moses was called by God, appointed for a work of God, and trained by God for this work.  It was not of Moses but of God.   💥💥💥   Now in the wilderness, God takes Moses up to the mount to receive the ten commandments for the nation of Israel.   Exodus 24   12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to ME into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.   13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.   14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.   15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.   16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day HE called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.   17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.   18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.   💥💥💥   Jesus sets up the New Testament church after HE is resurrected into heaven.   Acts 2:47  And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.   We don't join the church by our own will.  God opens our eyes to HIS truth and when that happens we are born again, made into new creatures by the Spirit of God.   Acts 13:48  And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.   Salvation is of God.  God opens the eyes of those who are chosen by God to salvation.   We are all members of the body of Christ but some are set into the church by God to do the work of the church.   It is a call of God by the will of God and not by our own will that we are born again and put into the church to do specific works in the church.   We believe because God opened our eyes to believe.   Thus Paul explains:   Romans 9   16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.   17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew MY power in thee, and that MY name might be declared throughout all the earth.   18 Therefore hath HE mercy on whom HE will have mercy, and whom HE will HE hardeneth.   💥💥💥   God speaks directly to us who are being saved.   To Pam Padgett, God used a motorcycle accident where one of her high school classmates was killed, and God opened Pam's eyes for her to see her need for salvation, and she called on God and asked HIM to save her, and HE did.  But Pam's mother and sisters who heard of that same motorcycle accident had no real change take place in their lives.   (Pam was a teenager at that time.)   After she called on God, she knew something of God was in her.   Years later she saw a scripture and knew what it was from God that 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?   (Pam was also given by God a ministry office, "helps", to work in the church.)   I Corinthians 12:27-28  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.   28 And God hath set some in the church (to work in the church), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.   In 2012, God gave me a dream showing me to start a blog.  I asked Pam to set up a blog for us.  Now Pam does all the technical work for this ministry in publishing writings for blog, books on Amazon, Podcasts, Twitter.  I can do none of these technical things and without "help" we would not be able to do blog, books, Podcasts, or Twitter.  Pam was set in the body of Christ to do these things for the church.   God trained Pam in all these things even before the need surfaced.   She had a call on her life to do these works in the ministry and at one point, she was given a dream showing her I was her "supervisor", but the call from God was on her life and she was trained by God.   💥💥💥   On the road to Damascus, Jesus revealed Himself from heaven to the apostle Paul and then by a voice from heaven Jesus spoke to Paul.  Paul was changed forever but the men who traveled with Paul were not changed.   Acts 9   1-2 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,  And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.   3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:   4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME?   5 And he 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.   (With this call of Jesus, Paul's life was changed completely, instantly.  But the other men who traveled with Paul heard this same voice and were not changed.)   6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt THOU have me to do?   And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.   7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.   Paul gives more detail of this calling from heaven in the following scripture:   Acts 26   14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.   15 And I said, Who art THOU, Lord? And HE said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.   16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;   17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,   18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in ME.   19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:   Paul did nothing worthy of salvation.  Paul was persecuting the followers of Jesus at the time Jesus called him from heaven and changed him.   Salvation is by the will of God.  God speaks to the individual who is being saved and God reveals HIMSELF to that individual and God opens the eyes of the one being saved and that individual now sees things of God.   God might show HIMSELF to you at the grocery store, or at your home, or in a church meeting.  But to each who "see", it is God who causes that individual to "see".    And then he is born again and given the Holy Spirit of God to lead him and to guide him for the remainder of his life on this earth.   I believe most of us who are born again by God know that we did nothing to make us worthy of salvation.  It was simply that God chose us and revealed HIMSELF to us and never again were we the same as we had been before this happened.   💥💥💥   Matthew 16   13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, HE asked HIS disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?   14 And they said, Some say that THOU art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.   15 HE saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?   16 And Simon Peter answered and said, THOU art the Christ, the Son of the living God.   17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but MY Father which is in heaven.   18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock (the truth revealed by God) I will build MY church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.   💥💥💥   I was baptized in water when I was 15 years old.  (nothing changed in my life)   God spoke to me when I was 37-years-old and everything changed in my life.   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 was born again, my cousin (Church of Christ member) said to me:  "Well ... I believe you are a Christian.  I just don't see how you can be."   (She didn't understand what it is to be born again by God by HIS Spirit.)   💥💥💥   Hebrews 5:4  And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.   After Jesus was resurrected, from heaven Jesus set up the ministries in the New Testament church   Ephesians 4:8  Wherefore HE saith, When HE (Jesus) ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men ...  11-12   And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:   You can't put yourself into the ministry by going to Bible school.  You must be called by Jesus from heaven as Paul was called.   You can't give yourself the gifts of the Holy Spirit.  God gives individuals the gifts of the Holy Spirit as HE wills.  (I Corinthians 12)   A woman at church came to me once and said to me, "I want to do what you do."   I replied, "You do?"  (I was really surprised that anyone wanted to do this.)   Everything is by the will of God, not by the will of man.   We are born again when God chooses to reveal HIMSELF to us.   When we are set in one of the ministries, it is because Jesus choose us to do this.   💥💥💥   John 3:3  Jesus said:  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.   I Corinthians 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.   Romans 8  1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.   14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 15, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   John 14:6   Jesus says:  I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by ME.   Jesus, The Word, is the way to go to God.   When God speaks to us, we believe the Word and we agree with what God has said and we are born again and given the Holy Spirit of God when we believe the Word given to us.   And immediately God changes us into a new creature, not of ourselves nor of our own works, but by God will.   II 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.   💥💥💥   In the Old Testament God spoke to HIS people by HIS prophets.   Moses was called by God to come up to the mountain to be instructed by God.   Exodus 20   1 And God spake all these words, saying,   2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.   3 Thou shalt have no other gods before ME.   4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:   5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate ME;   6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love ME, and keep MY commandments.   7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh HIS name in vain.   8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.   9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:   10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:   11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.   12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.   13 Thou shalt not kill.   14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.   15 Thou shalt not steal.   16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.   17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.   18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.   19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.   20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that HIS fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.   21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.   22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.   23 Ye shall not make with ME gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.   24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto ME, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record MY name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.   25 And if thou wilt make ME an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.   26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 14, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Exodus 19   1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.   2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.   3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;   4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself.   (It is good for each of us to think on those things which God has done in our lives.)   5 Now therefore, if ye will obey MY voice indeed, and keep MY covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto ME above all people: for all the earth is Mine:   6 And ye shall be unto ME a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.   These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.   💥💥💥   Today, God speaks directly to each of us, HIS children, through the Holy Spirit of Jesus who lives in each born again person who is the elect of God.   Hebrews 1:2-3  God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,   2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by HIS Son, WHOM HE hath appointed heir of all things, by WHOM also HE made the worlds;   💥💥💥   1 Peter 2   1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,   2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:   3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.   4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,   5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.   (spiritual sacrifices: seeking God's will; giving up our own ways and fleshly desires in order to go in HIS ways; following the ways shown us by HIS Spirit.)   6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on HIM shall not be confounded.   7 Unto you therefore which believe HE (Jesus Christ the Word) is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,   8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.   9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;   (God chose each of us by opening our understanding to the Word, making us HIS own.  After we understood we chose Him, HIS way.  But first HE, God caused us to see, caused us to understand the truth of the Word.  Thus God chose us.  We did not choose God until after God revealed HIS own truth to us.)   that ye should shew forth the praises of HIM who hath called you out of darkness into HIS marvellous light:   (We praise God and exalt God each time we share with other people that which God has done for us.)   10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.   (God chose us having mercy on us.  Romans 9:16-18  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew MY power in thee, and that MY name might be declared throughout all the earth.  Therefore hath HE mercy on whom HE will have mercy, and whom HE will he hardeneth.)   God chose us and revealed HIMSELF to us, not of any goodness in us but because of goodness in HIM.  Therefore we are continually grateful to God for our salvation!   💥💥💥   God opened our eyes to believe in Jesus, The Word.  And God gave us HIS Holy Spirit to teach us and guide us and to remind us of everything The Word has said to us.   John 14:26  (Jesus said)  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.   John 16:13  Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of HIMSELF; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.   I Corinthians 2   9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM.   10 But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.   11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.   12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.   13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.   14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.   💥💥💥   I John 4   4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is HE that is in you, than he that is in the world.   5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.   6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.   Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.   💥💥💥   The Holy Spirit of God brings to our mind scriptures and concepts to show us what to do as we deal with the problems of this present life.  As we go in the way shown us by the Holy Spirit, we produce the fruits of the Holy Spirit by our actions and we do the will of God as we do that which the Holy Spirit shows us to do and to say.   Galatians 5:22-23  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:   Romans 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.   14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 13, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   The Old Testament and the children of God:   Moses selected men from the tribes of Israel and they assisted him in judging the people.  There were 600,000 men (plus women and children) in the wilderness so it became too much for Moses to do all the work alone.   Moses' father-in-law suggested another plan for Moses in dealing with the people.   Exodus 18   8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.   9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom HE had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.   10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, WHO hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.   11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly HE (God) was above them.   12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.   💥💥💥 13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.   14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?   15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:   (The people in the Old Testament did not have the Holy Spirit so they went to a prophet to inquire of God in the matter at hand.)   16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and HIS laws.   17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.   18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.   19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:   20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.   21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:   22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.   23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.   24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.   💥💥💥   (There were 600,000 men ... plus women and children.)   25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.   26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.   27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land. 💥💥💥   Later in the Old Testament, God set up men, and even women, to judge HIS people and to show them the way to go as they lived on this present earth.   The prophets of God, such as Moses, were used by God to judge HIS people and show them the laws of God which were right in the sight of God.   The prophets were given the Holy Spirit of God in the Old Testament, but the people and even the kings of Israel and Judah, had to come to the prophet to inquire of God and seek the will of God.   Today, in the New Testament, all who belong to God are given the Holy Spirit so we go directly to God through Jesus to inquire of the will of God.   But this was not the case of the Old Testament.   God set up judges.   Here is one of those judges set by God:   Judges 4  (Deborah: a judge over Israel)   1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.   2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.   3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.   4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.   5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.   6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?   7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.   8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.   9 And she said, I will surely go with thee:   💥💥💥   The judges of Israel were selected by God.  But after a season, the people of Israel demanded that they be given a king to rule over them as the other nations had.   God did not like this and God told them what their king would do to them but they insisted on having a king to rule, so God gave them a king.   I Samuel 8   7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected ME, that I should not reign over them.   8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken ME, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.   9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.   💥💥💥   The first king given by God was Saul.   But Saul disobeyed God.   I Samuel 15   1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over HIS people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.   2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.   3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.   Saul did not fully obey that instruction which God delivered to him by the prophet Samuel.   So God took the kingdom away from Saul.   And God anointed David to be king over His people.   After David, Solomon was king.   Then the kingdom was divided into 2 parts: Judah & Israel ...  and there were 2 kings, one over each part of the children of Israel.   Some did right in the sight of God while others did evil.   Throughout the Old Testament the prophets, selected by God, carried judgments of God to the kings and to the children of Israel.  The kings and the people came to the prophets to inquire of God during the period of the Old Testament. 💥💥💥   The New Testament Church:   All those individuals who are born again by God are given the Holy Spirit to lead them and guide them in the New Testament church and this changes everything and sets up a different order in the New Testament church today.   I Corinthians 3:16   Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?   💥💥💥   The New Testament church is set up by Jesus from heaven as follows:   Ephesians 4:8;11-12  Wherefore HE saith, When HE (Jesus) ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.  11 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:   💥💥💥   Paul was one of these New Testament apostles given to the church from heaven after Jesus arose.   Acts 9:1-9  And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,   2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.   3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:   4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME?   5 And he said, Who art THOU, Lord?   And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.   6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt THOU have me to do?   And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.   7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.   8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.   9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.   💥💥💥   Paul tells more about that which Jesus said to him in the following scripture:   Acts 26   15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord?   And HE said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.   16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;   17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,   18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in ME.   💥💥💥 Today there are still prophets in the New Testament church.  We see several examples in the New Testament Bible of prophets working in the New Testament church after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.   See Acts 11 and Acts 21 where Agabus, a prophet, comes to the New Testament  churches to do the work of God.   Also the apostle Paul took Silas, a New Testament  prophet, with him on his ministry journeys.   And in the book of Acts, we see prophets speaking to the churches to confirm the Word of God to the New Testament  church.   💥💥💥   Acts 11:27  And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.   Acts 15:32  And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.   Acts 15:40  And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.   Acts 17:4  And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.   I Corinthians 14:29  (In the gathering of the church, Paul says.)  Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.   Acts 13:1  Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.   💥💥💥   In the New Testament Bible, there are no such things as: pope, cardinals, archbishops, priests, vickers, ministers of music.  No minister called himself "Reverend" in the Bible.  Ministers in the New Testament  Bible identified themselves as apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher.  They did not wear special garments as in the Old Testament.   💥💥💥   And in the New Testament church, we have elders/bishops (the same office), and governments inside the church caring for the church: (as follows)   I Corinthians 12:27-28   27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.   28 And God hath set some in the church (some are set to work in the church and care for the church), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.   💥💥💥   Titus  1  (elders/bishops)   4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.   5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:   6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.   7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;   (elder and bishop are titles used interchangeably and are the same office in the church)   8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;   9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.   I Timothy 3   1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.   2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;   3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;   4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;   5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)   6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.   7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.   💥💥💥   1 Timothy 3  (deacons)   8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;   9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.   10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.   11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.   12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.   13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a all good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.   💥💥💥   Today there are many denominations of churches set up by men by their own will, bringing division to the body of Christ as Paul told us in I Corinthians 3.   I Corinthians 3  (Paul says)   1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.   2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.   3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?   4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?   (One says, "I'm Methodist."  Another says, "I'm Baptist."  dividing the body of Christ by their denominations.)   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.   💥💥💥   And there is the end time apostasy today in the church groups where they have fallen away from specific scripture and have set up their own church doctrines which are opposite from the doctrine of Christ in the Holy Bible.   The apostle Paul said this apostasy in the church where antichrist reigns in the churches had to happen before Jesus could return.   II Thessalonians 2:3-4   3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;   4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.   (In 1982, I was reading the above scripture and God explained to me:  "The falling away are not people leaving the church groups.  The falling away are the church groups leaving the scriptures.")   Paul said this would come in the end time churches:   Paul speaking to the elders of the church at Ephesus.   Acts 20:29-30  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.   Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.   💥💥💥   God will destroy the antichrist churches of the apostasy when Jesus returns.   II Thessalonians 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:   💥💥💥   When Jesus returns, HE will raise the dead in Christ and HE will send HIS angels to gather the elect of God who are still alive on this present earth.   I Thessalonians 4   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.   Matthew 24   31 And HE (Jesus) shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 12, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...    These Old Testament examples teach us to follow God.  They allow us to see the work of God on behalf of HIS children.  And these examples show us God is always giving information in the problems of life to HIS children.   I find these examples to be strengthening and faith building.   The children of Israel had to fight in many battles, and so do we today.  For to enter in to that land promised by God, we will have many who stand up against us, even people in our own church groups.   But we will learn that the Word from God is all that matters.   Proverbs 21:30-31  There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD. The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.   All that matters is, "Did God tell me to do this thing?"   💥💥💥   The apostle Paul explains:   I Corinthians 10   5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.   6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.   Exodus 17   1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.   2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink.   And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?   3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?   4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.   💥💥💥   There are many problems in this life and we learn to turn to God for answers to each problem.   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 (The Word which is given by 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. 💥💥💥   Exodus 17   And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.   6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.   And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.   7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?   (God is not pleased when HIS people murmur, complain.  Instead we learn to take each problem to God and to wait patiently for God to bring us HIS Word to deal with the issue of this world.)   💥💥💥   The children of Israel began the first of many wars which they will wage by the commandment of the Lord against the other nations so they can enter the land promised to them by God and live in those lands.   In this present life, we, too, go through many "wars" so that we can do the will of God on this earth.   II Corinthians 10:4-5  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;   💥💥💥   Exodus 17   8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.   9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.   10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.   11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.   12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.   13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.   14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.   💥💥💥   The children of Israel overcome through God as they begin their trip through the wilderness before they reach the promised land.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 11, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Exodus 16   1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.   2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:   (murmured:  complained against)   3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.   4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in MY law, or no.   5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.   (They were not permitted to gather food on the Sabbath nor do any work at all in cooking food on the Sabbath, not even to light a fire for cooking in their tents on the Sabbath.  So they had to gather food the day before the Sabbath and cook food the day before the Sabbath.)   6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:   7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that HE (God) heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?   (When I start to complain about something, I am often reminded that God hears this and I often stop myself from complaining about the situation and start praying instead.)   8 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against HIM: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.   9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for HE hath heard your murmurings.   10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.   💥💥💥   Exodus 16   11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.   13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.   14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.   15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.   16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.   17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.   18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.   19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.   20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.   (God was going to provide their daily needs each day. But they didn't trust God so some of the children of Israel provided for themselves, just in case ... and it stank and bred worms in the left over bread.)   21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.   💥💥💥   22  And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.   23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.   24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.   25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.   26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.   27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.   💥💥💥 28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep MY commandments and MY laws?   29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore HE giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.   30 So the people rested on the seventh day.   💥💥💥 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.   32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.   33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.   34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.   35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 10, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   From the beginning of my being born again and changed into a new creature by God, HE showed me that no man would stand before me all the days of my life.  I would overcome all through HIM and through turning to HIM and by doing that which HE said.   I lived in Lubbock, Texas, in a house owned by Jesus Ministries.  It was tax exempt.   When I left Lubbock, and put the house up for sale, the Lubbock tax assessor put the house into a taxable status, removing us from tax exempt status on the house that was for sale.   But the house was still owned by our ministry group which was declared non-profit by the USA government and the State of Texas, yet the city of Lubbock tried to change our status.   They wanted us to prove to them that we were tax-exempt even though they had the papers saying we were tax-exempt from both the USA government and the State of Texas.   They were trying to charge us $10,000 per year property taxes while the house was for sale.   We could not pay such as a non-profit tax exempt ministry.   I was furious with the tax assessor.   God calmed me down that night, and when I awoke the next morning, I knew exactly what to do.  I believe God planted this in my heart that night.   I sent the following to the tax assessor of Lubbock, Texas.   💥💥💥   Jesus Ministries History   Jesus Ministries:   Joan Boney ... apostle and prophet of Jesus Christ according to Ephesians 4:11-12   - apostle:  anointing by God to deal with scripture and especially doctrines in the church according to Bible.   - prophet:  bringing correction to church through the Spirit of God, as needed, and preparing church for the second coming of Jesus.   ***** * Radio:  1980-84   Dr. Joan Boney - NYC - Washington, DC - Philadelphia - Pittsburgh - Detroit - Minneapolis/St. Paul - Oklahoma City - Dallas/Ft. Worth - Houston - Denver - Seattle - Eugene, Oregon - Bakersfield, California - Los Angeles - Phoenix   * Radio: (2007-2008) - Lubbock, TX   * Meetings: - Church meetings in radio cities coast to coast for radio audiences - Also  guest speaker at various churches around USA & in France, Switzerland, Brussels, and  Christ For The Nations, Wolfenbüttel, Germany   * Internet blog:  Jesus  Ministries Exhortations Beginning March, 2012 Continual daily publications to current date (2019) ...  1,072,408  page views   * Podcasts  Beginning February, 2020  12,532 downloads to date   *  Books:      Published on Amazon     Paperback & e-books     2015 to current   Dr. Joan Boney - Dealing With Destructive Thoughts - Faith in God - Prayer to God - Taking Thoughts Captive - Righteousness, Prosperity, & Good Success - Following God by His Spirit - Preparing Yourselves for the Return of Jesus - Psalms - Great is Thy Faithfulness - The New Testament Church - The Prophet in Today's Church - Overcoming Through God - Faith Building Moments - Building Your House On The Word of God - Escaping The World God's Way - Promises From God to the Church - Dreams From God - Holy Bible:  New Testament - Spiritual Warfare - Dreams, Visions, Angels, & The Holy Spirit  - Destruction In Today's Churches - Attending Church!   - Exhortations for the Church  (12 volumes)   New Series:   God In HIS Image       - Adam through Joseph - Moses deals with Pharaoh   Available through Amazon in E-book and paperback *  Secular Books: e-books & paperback (Amazon) Pam Padgett & Joan Boney - Handicap Helps - Graphically Illustrated Guide to Kindle Fire 8   *** All books published and distributed world-wide through Amazon.com (Daily a free E-book, from this ministry, is offered on Amazon.) *****   After reading this, the Lubbock Tax Assessor declared the for-sale property non-profit and returned us to tax-exempt status.   The house was on the real estate market for 1-1/2 years and then sold May, 2020.   💥💥💥   Another example:  From August 4, 2021   A woman from the office of my eye doctor called to say they need me to come in for glaucoma testing and to take a "Field Test."  But I had just been to this doctor in April, 2021, and it was very confusing to me to think of going back so soon.   (When something seems wrong to me, I have learned to question the matter)   So I told this woman I did not want to take a Field test.   (When I was in the hospital, after an accident in 2018, I learned that patients have a "right of refusal" concerning testing or medications.)   She said it was a part of the Medicare package.  She then said, "So can we make an appoint for you?"  I said, "No."   Then she said they would not fill any more prescriptions for the eye drops that I take for glaucoma unless I made an appointment.  I felt something was wrong with this office.   After the phone call I began praying.  I felt disturbed every time I thought of returning to that doctor.   The day after the phone call, I awoke knowing what to do.  (Often God plants in my heart what to do in such matters.)   I wrote the following letter to this eye doctor.   Dear Doctor:   This week, I received a call from your office and was told you would not fill any more prescriptions for me unless I came in for tests and took Field test.   I have called other doctors and each of three have told me I have "right of refusal" for such things as Field test and they will treat me even if I do opt out of this test.   Therefore I have decided to change from you though I have enjoyed you personally.   Please send my records to following doctor:   Thank you:   Signed: Joan Boney   (When I was in hospital in Lubbock, Texas, in 2018, I learned that medical patients have "rights" and we can refuse certain medicines or procedures.  The knowledge of this has been very helpful to me.  I have found medical people often try to bully you into doing something, often by fear.  And sometimes they try to trick the patient.  I have declined several times such things as medications when I do not feel such the right thing for me.  Of course, I am praying and asking God what to do and if God told me to do something I would likely do it.  And I have faith in God's ability to communicate with me when something is really needed.)   💥💥💥   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.   Joshua 1:5   There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.   (I believe both of the above promises are valid for each person who is born again and has access to God and HIS wisdom.  If something feels wrong to me, I pray.  And if it continues to feel wrong, I decline doing this thing.)   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 9, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Without problems, would we see the victories of God?   The children of Israel greatly rejoiced when God brought them through the Red Sea and when God drowned Pharaoh and his men in the Red Sea.   Exodus 15   1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for HE hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath HE thrown into the sea.   2 The LORD is my strength and song, and HE is become my salvation: HE is my God, and I will prepare HIM an habitation (making myself ready for God to live in me); MY father's God, and I will exalt HIM.   3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is HIS name.   💥💥💥 4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath HE cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.   5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.   6 THY right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: THY right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.   7 And in the greatness of Thine excellency THOU hast overthrown them that rose up against THEE: THOU sentest forth THY wrath, which consumed them as stubble.   8 And with the blast of THY nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.   9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.   10 THOU didst blow with THY wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.   (One puff from GOD and they, the enemy, were finished.)   11 Who is like unto THEE, O LORD, among the gods? who is like THEE, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?   12 Thou stretchedst out THY right hand, the earth swallowed them.   13 THOU in THY mercy hast led forth the people which THOU hast redeemed: THOU hast guided them in THY strength unto THY holy habitation.   14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.   15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.   16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of THINE arm they shall be as still as a stone; till THY people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which THOU hast purchased.   17 THOU shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of THINE inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which THOU hast made for THEE to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which THY hands have established.   Isn't it the same with us, the born again church today?  Doesn't our faith in God increase as we read these Old Testament examples which show God dealing with HIS people?   God will deliver the New Testament church which is born again and take them to the new heaven and the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness which HE has created for the elect of God.   Revelation 21   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.   💥💥💥   These bodies we have now will not go into heaven with us.  We will be changed into new spiritual bodies.   I Corinthians 15   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 quickly we will be changed into our new spiritual bodies.)   These current bodies experience physical pain and sorrow, emotions of the flesh.   In the new heaven and new earth, the "new" Jerusalem, there will be no more pain nor sorrow because we will not have these fleshly bodies whereby pain and sorrow occur.   💥💥💥   Exodus 15   18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.   19  For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.   (A man once said to me that Pharaoh didn't drown because the Cecile B. Demille movie, "The Ten Commandments", showed Pharaoh standing on the banks when the Red Sea came back to normal.  I took a Bible and read to him Exodus 15:19  For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them;   Then I said, "Now what do you think?"  He replied, "Pharaoh died in the Red Sea."  You cannot get your Bible doctrine from such things as Hollywood movies.)   💥💥💥   Exodus 15   20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.   21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for HE hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath HE thrown into the sea.   Seeing their enemies, the Egyptians, destroyed caused them to rejoice greatly.   Their problems on this earth were now ended!   They started forth in peace and joy ... through the wilderness.   💥💥💥 Then immediately there was a problem in the wilderness.   Exodus 15   22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.   23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.   24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying,  What shall we drink?   (Murmured: complained)   The children of Israel should have known it was GOD leading them for they witnessed the miracles of GOD which HE performed in Egypt to get them free from the Egyptians.  None but GOD could do such things.   GOD was leading them through the wilderness by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night to show them exactly where to go.   Wouldn't GOD be able to provide for HIS people in the wilderness?   Don't we today have faith in GOD based on those things we have seen GOD do for us in the past?   25 And he (Moses) cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet:   There HE made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there HE proved them,   26 And said,   If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in HIS sight, and wilt give ear to HIS commandments, and keep all HIS statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.   27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.   💥💥💥   These Old Testament examples teach us today:   We go forth on this earth in great peace and joy in God ... Then a problem surfaces ... We are troubled ... We call on God for help ... God shows us what to do in the problem ... We do that which God shows us and it works and we again rejoice that God helped us in the problem ... We are again going forward in peace and joy, resting in God ... Then a problem surfaces ...   Thus the apostle Paul says:   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 (The Word).   Psalm 23   1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.   2 HE maketh me to lie down in green pastures: HE leadeth me beside the still waters.   3 HE restoreth my soul: HE leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for HIS name's sake.   4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for THOU art with me; THY rod and THY staff they comfort me.   5 THOU preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: THOU anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.   6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 8, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   God set everything perfectly for the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt.   (600,000 men plus women and children)   God is going to lead them to the point where their back is to the Red Sea.  Then Pharaoh starts chasing them with his 600 chariots and there is no where for them to go to escape Pharaoh because the Red Sea is to their back!   God will use the Red Sea to destroy Pharaoh and his men and to save the nation of Israel.   💥💥💥   Exodus 14   1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.   3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.   4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD.   And they did so.   💥💥💥   Exodus 14   5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?   6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:   7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.   8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.   9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.   💥💥💥   God is going to kill Pharaoh and his army:   Exodus 14   10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.   11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?   (The children of Israel "murmur", complain, against Moses but really their complaint is against the Lord for it was HE who led them out of Egypt.)   12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.   (They forgot how Pharaoh commanded that their male babies be killed as soon as they were born!)   💥💥💥 13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which HE will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.   14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.   The children of Israel had just witnessed the great wonder of God where God destroyed all the first born of the Egyptians.   We should think on some of the things God has done for us in our lives so our faith in God can be increased and so we can endure when the trials of this life try us.   God has led me faithfully since I was born again in 1975, and even before I was born again.   As I think of the things God has done, I am greatly helped.   💥💥💥   Exodus 14   15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto ME? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:   16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.   17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get ME honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.   18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten ME honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.   💥💥💥   Exodus 14   19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:   20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them (the Egyptians), but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.   💥💥💥   Exodus 14   21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.   22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.   (As the children of Israel entered into the dry land between the two banks of water in the Red Sea, the wall of water was on their right and left hand with Pharaoh and his chariots pursuing behind them.  There was no way for them to go but forward, through the Red Sea.)   23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.   24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,   25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.   💥💥💥 26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.   27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.   28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.   29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.   💥💥💥   Exodus 14   30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.   31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.   💥💥💥   I Corinthians 10   1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;   2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;   3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;   4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.   5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.   6 Now these things 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.   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.   12 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.   14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 7, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   2 Peter 2:9  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:   💥💥💥   In Genesis 15, God promises Abraham a great nation would come from him and they would serve in bondage but in 400 years they would be delivered with great substance.   Genesis 15:13-14   And HE (God) said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;   14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.   God told Abraham they would be afflicted in Egypt 400 years.  But in Exodus we read they came out of Egypt in 430 years.   What God explained to me is this:  The children of Israel were afflicted by the Egyptians 400 years.  But in the early years when Joseph was living, the children of Israel lived in peace and they were not slaves until after Joseph's death and after a new Pharaoh came who knew not Joseph.   💥💥💥   God delivers HIS people from Egypt:   Exodus 12   30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.   31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.   32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.   33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.   💥💥💥   Exodus 12   34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.   35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:   36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.   💥💥💥 37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.   (When the children of Israel came into Egypt during the famine, there were approximately 70 men.  As they leave Egypt 430 years later, there were 600,000 men, plus women and children.  God told Abraham HE would greatly bless his seed.  And they will grow even greater as a nation in the years to come.)   38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.   39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.   40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.   (From time Joseph was taken into Egypt until God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt.)   41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.   42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.   (And it is important that we of the New Testament church today remember what great things God did for the children of Israel when God brought them out of Egypt to go to the land which God had promised to them.)   God will deliver us, the elect of God, from this present world when Jesus returns through the clouds.   Matthew 24:31   And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.   💥💥💥   Exodus 13   17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:   18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed (able-bodied) out of the land of Egypt.   19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.   Joseph, by faith that God would deliver HIS people from Egypt, made them promise to carry his bones out with them.  This statement by Joseph was an act of faith in God.   💥💥💥   2 Peter 2   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:   💥💥💥   Exodus 13   20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.   21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:   22 HE took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.   💥💥💥   Today God leads us by HIS Holy Spirit who lives in each of the born again children of God.   I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?   Jesus says:   John 14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.   John 16:13  Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.   1 Corinthians 2:9-14   But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM.  10 But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.   11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.   12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.   13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.   14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 6, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Exodus 11:1  And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.   💥💥💥   Exodus 11   4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:   5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.   6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.   7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.   The passover of the angel of death who saves the firstborn of Israel but kills the firstborn of the Egyptians:   Exodus 12   1  And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,   2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.   3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:   4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.   5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:   6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.   7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.   8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.   9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.   10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.   11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.   (Be ready to go.)   12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.   13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.   (New Testament: Blood of Jesus our passover.)   We think of the blood of Jesus today for by HIS blood we are saved in this time of the New Testament church.   💥💥💥   Exodus 12   21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.   22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.   (Do what God shows you.)   23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when HE seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.   💥💥💥   Exodus 12   28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.   29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.   30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.   💥💥💥   2 Peter 2   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:   💥💥💥   At the end of this present world:   I Thessalonians 4   13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.   14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.   15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep.   16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:   17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.   18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.   (We will meet the Lord "in the air" because this present heaven and earth will be destroyed by God by fire and will not be here anymore.)   💥💥💥   2 Peter 3   10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,   12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?   13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.   14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.   💥💥💥   We will be given new spiritual bodies:   I Corinthians 15   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 into our new spiritual bodies.)   53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.   💥💥💥   We will be taken to the new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.   Revelation 21   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.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 5, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   In the previous Podcast, we saw the first plague that was sent upon Egypt by God:  the rivers and waters were turned to blood  (Exodus 7)   After this, one by one, God brings the other plagues upon Egypt.   * Exodus 8:1-2   And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let MY people go, that they may serve ME.  2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:   3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:   4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants. 💥💥💥   * Exodus 8:16  And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.   17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.   💥💥💥   * Exodus 8:20-23  And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let My people go, that they may serve ME.  Else, if thou wilt not let MY people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.   22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which MY people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.   23 And I will put a division between MY people and thy people:   💥💥💥   *  Exodus 9 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let MY people go, that they may serve ME.   2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,   3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.   4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.   5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.   6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.   💥💥💥   Exodus 9  And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.   10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.   💥💥💥   Exodus 9  And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let MY people go, that they may serve ME. 14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like ME in all the earth. 15 For now I will stretch out MY hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. 16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee MY power; and that MY name may be declared throughout all the earth.  17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against MY people, that thou wilt not let them go?   18  Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.   19  Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.  20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:  21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.   22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.   23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.   24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.   25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.   26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.   33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.   34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.   35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.   💥💥💥   Exodus 10   1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these MY signs before him:   2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.   3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before ME? let my people go, that they may serve ME.   4 Else, if thou refuse to let MY people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:   5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:   6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.   7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?   💥💥💥   Exodus 10   12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.   13  And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.   14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.   15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.   💥💥💥   Exodus 10   21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.   22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:   23  And they saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 💥💥💥   So far:  The plagues sent by God upon Egypt:   # 1.  Rivers, seas, and all waters turned to blood # 2.  Frogs # 3.  Lice # 4.  Flies # 5.  Disease upon the cattle, horses, asses, camels, oxen, sheep # 6.  Boils upon man and beast # 7.  Rain, hail, and fire # 8.  Locust # 9.  Great darkness   There will be one more plague from God and then Pharaoh will let them go.   Exodus 10   27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.   28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.   29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.   Exodus 11   1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.   2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.   3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people. 💥💥💥   At the end of our present world, God will bring The Great Tribulation, the plagues and woes of God, upon this world.   Part 1:  Seven angels sound their trumpets and plagues from God follow:   # 1. Hail and fire mingled with blood. (Revelation 8) # 2. Great mountain burning with fire cast into the sea. (Revelation 8) # 3. Star from heaven fell burning into the third part of the rivers and waters. (Revelation 8) # 4. Third part of the sun and moon and stars were smitten. (Revelation 8) # 5. Locust  (Revelation 9) # 6. 1/3 of the men of the earth killed.  (Revelation  9) # 7. Time would be no more.  (Revelation 10:5-6)   Part 2:  Vials of the wrath of God poured out on the earth   # 1. Grievous sores on the men who had the mark of the beast.  (Revelation 16) # 2. Blood:  death in the seas (Revelation 16) # 3. Blood:  rivers and fountains of water  (Revelation 16) # 4. Sun scorches men of this earth (Revelation 16) # 5. Great darkness upon the earth (Revelation 16) # 6. Devils working miracles  (Revelation 16) # 7, It is done:  voices, thunders, lightnings, a great earthquake, cities of the nations fall, every island fled, and the mountains disappeared, great hail which was exceedingly great.  (Revelation 16)    Some of the elect of God will be on the earth at the time of the great tribulation:   Jesus says:   Matthew 24:21-22   21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 4, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Exodus 6   1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.   2  And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:   3  And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by MY name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.   4  And I have also established MY covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.   5  And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered MY covenant.   6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:   7 And I will take you to ME for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.   8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.   9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.   10  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,   11  Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.   12 And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?   13  And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.   💥💥💥   28  And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,   29  That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.   💥💥💥   Exodus 7   1  And the LORD said unto Moses,   See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.   2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.   10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.   11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.   12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.   They try to copy of people of God today in the churches.  But they fall short because:   I John 4   4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is HE that is in you, than he that is in the world.   5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.   6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.   💥💥💥   Exodus 7   13 And HE (God) hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.   14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.   15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.   16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let MY people go, that they may serve ME in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.   17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.   18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.   19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.   20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.   21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.   25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.   This is the first plague sent by God upon the Egyptians.   💥💥💥   At the end of this present world, God send's HIS judgments upon this world in the form of "The Great Tribulation."   These "woes" will be worse than anything ever to strike this world.  (Revelation 8; 9; 16)   Some of those things that will happen in the end times are as follows:   Acts 2:16-21  But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;  17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:   19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:   20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:   21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.   💥💥💥   Revelation 6   12 And I beheld when HE (Jesus) had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;   13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.   14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.   15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;   16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of HIM that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:   17 For the great day of HIS wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?   💥💥💥   I Thessalonians 5   1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.   2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.   3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.   4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.   5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.   6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.   7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.   8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.   9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 3, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   In the New Testament, Jesus shows us the Word will divide us from those who have not been given God's Word on the matter at hand.   Matthew 10   Jesus says:   34  Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.   (Hebrews 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.)   Think of the Word of God as a sword which cuts through the flesh of man and separates.   35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.   36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.   37 He that loveth father or mother more than ME (the Word) is not worthy of ME: and he that loveth son or daughter more than ME is not worthy of ME.   38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after ME (the Word), is not worthy of ME.   39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for My sake (for the sake of the Word)  shall find it.   The Word of God divides us from those people who have not heard from God.   But the Word of God also joins us with those people who have heard from God.   We know the Word from God is good and it is sometimes shocking that others, especially when in our church group, fight against that Word we bring from God.   Pam Padgett encountered this when she told a divorced woman from her church group that if she remarried she would commit adultery.   This woman said, "I don't care what the Bible says.  I know what I believe."   Pam was so shocked to hear that a Christian didn't care what the Bible says.   But many who attend churches are not born again and God has not revealed HIMSELF to such who live this way.   💥💥💥   Moses and Aaron bring the Word of God to Pharaoh:   Exodus 5   1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let MY people go, that they may hold a feast unto ME in the wilderness.   2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey HIS voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.   3 And they (Moses & Arron) said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest HE fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.   4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.   5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.   Those who are not of God see the Word exactly opposite from those persons who are of God.  The Word is a sword dividing us from the unbelievers.   John 3:3   Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.   I Corinthians 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.   But sometimes when we carry the Word of God to them and speak that Word, God will open their eyes and they will be saved by that Word.   In the case of Pharaoh, God had already told Moses Pharaoh would not let them go.  But after God showed HIS miracles Pharaoh would let them go.  So Moses knew the end from the beginning by that Word which God had revealed to him.   💥💥💥   Exodus 5   6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,   7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.   (So Pharaoh greatly increases the daily work load of the children of Israel because of that which Moses and Aaron have carried to him.  This is persecution "for the word's sake.")   8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.   9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.   💥💥💥 10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.   11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.   12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.   13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.   14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?   15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?   16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.   17 But he (Pharaoh) said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.   18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.   19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.   💥💥💥 20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:   21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.   💥💥💥 22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast THOU so evil entreated this people? why is it that THOU hast sent me?   23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in THY name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast THOU delivered THY people at all.   God answers Moses:   Exodus 6   1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.   2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:   3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by MY name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.   4 And I have also established MY covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.   5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered MY covenant.   6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:   7 And I will take you to ME for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.   8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.   9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.   💥💥💥   Focus on that which God says:   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 2, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Exodus 1   7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land (of Egypt) was filled with them.   8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.   9 And he said unto his people (to the Egyptians), Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:   10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.   11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.   12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they (the Egyptians) were grieved because of the children of Israel.   13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:   14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.   💥💥💥   Exodus 1:15-17  And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:   16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.   17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.   💥💥💥   During this period of time, Moses was born.   When Moses could no longer be hidden, he, as a baby, was placed into  "an ark of bulrushes, and daubed with slime and with pitch, and she put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink."  (Exodus 2:3)   Pharaoh's daughter came upon the ark and took Moses into her house to raise Moses as her own son.   Exodus 2   10 And the child grew, and she (the woman who had been nursing the baby Moses who was Moses' real mother) brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.   11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.   12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.   13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he (Moses) said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?   14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.   15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.   💥💥💥   The purpose of our review of the Old Testament is to focus on that which God said to HIS elect.   Now God is going to reveal HIMSELF to that man that HE has chosen, the elect of God, the man Moses.   Exodus 2  (Moses lives in the land of Midian for 40 years and is given a wife and has two sons.  Then the king of Egypt dies.)   23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.   24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered HIS covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.   25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.   💥💥💥   Exodus 3   1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.   2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.   3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.   4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.   5 And HE (God) said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.   💥💥💥   God identifies HIMSELF to Moses:   6 Moreover HE (God) said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.   7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of MY people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;   8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.   9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto ME: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.   10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth MY people the children of Israel out of Egypt.   11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?   12 And HE (God) said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.   💥💥💥 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is HIS name? what shall I say unto them?   14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and HE said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.   💥💥💥 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is MY name for ever, and this is MY memorial unto all generations.   16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:   17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.   18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.   19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.   20 And I will stretch out MY hand, and smite Egypt with all MY wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.   21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:   22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.   Exodus 4   1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.   2  And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.   3 And HE (God) said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.   4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:   5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.   6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.   7 And HE (God) said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.   8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.   9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.   10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.   11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?   12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.   13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.   14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and HE said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.   15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.   16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.   17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.   18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.   💥💥💥   God speaks today to us, to HIS elect, to HIS children.   Jesus says:   John 10:27-30  My sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME:   28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of MY hand.   29 My Father, which gave them ME, is greater than all; and no (none) is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 31, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Genesis 27  (After the death of Sarah)   1-2 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.  And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.   3-4 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. 4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah (Abraham's wife after Sarah's death.)   5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.   (Isaac was the child of the promise.)   6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.   Genesis 25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.   💥💥💥   Isaac had two sons. Jacob was the child of God.  Jacob had a twin brother, Esau,  who was the elder. Even before the children were born, God chose Jacob, the younger son and later spoke to Jacob directly, identifying HIMSELF to Jacob.   (Romans 9:10-13   And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;  11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of HIM that calleth;)  12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.)   Genesis 25:20-23   And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. 21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.   23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.   Rebekah knew God had chosen her younger son, Jacob over Esau.   💥💥💥   Genesis 26   34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:   35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.   Genesis 27:46   And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?   💥💥💥   Genesis 28   1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.   2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.   3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;   4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.   5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.   Esau is going to try to please his mother and father by copying what Jacob, the elect of God, has done.   So Esau, thinking by his fleshly mind, goes to the granddaughter of Abraham to marry her, a granddaughter of Abraham, whose father was a son of Abraham, Ishmael! (The natural man who tries to copy the elect of God is always off in his thinking, like a radio station which is a little off the center of the sound dial.)   6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;   7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;   8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;   9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.   For Esau reasons this woman, the grandaughter of Abraham, will please his father Isaac and his mother Rebekah.  But Ishmael was not even allowed to continue in Abraham's household, so his daughter would not please Isaac and Rebekah.   Concerning Isaac and Ishmael ...   Genesis 21:8-12  And the child (Isaac) grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.   12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.   So Ishmael, the son of Hagar, was cast out of Abraham house.  But Esau seems to miss this fact and he marries a daughter of Ishmael thinking this will please Isaac and Rebekah.   I Corinthians 2:14   But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.   Esau was "the natural man" and he could not please God.  Neither can we please God unless we are born again by God and given the Holy Spirit to live in us and guide us and teach us, for the Spirit of God searches the heart of God to reveal the will of God to us.  (I Corinthians 2)  So when we hear from the Spirit of God and follow HIM, we please God.   John 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.   We cannot understand the things of God until we have been born again by God and created as a new creature who is led by the Holy Spirit of God who is given us by God.   II 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.   When we are born again it is by the will of God and God speaks to us and reveals HIMSELF to us, changing us into new creatures who now have the Holy Spirit of God living in them to guide them in ways of God.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 30, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   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 (in the sight of the Egyptian), and he served him: and he (the Egyptian) made him (Joseph) overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his (Joseph's) 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 (the Egyptian) 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.   💥💥💥   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.   Romans 8:28   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to HIS purpose.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 29, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   God speaks to HIS Children showing HIS election to HIMSELF.   We see that God spoke to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob.   Next in line is Joseph.  Of the 12 children of Israel, it was Joseph who was chosen by God.  And to Joseph, the elect of God, God spoke through dreams to show Joseph HIS calling.   Genesis 37   Dreams:   5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.   6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:   (This is the Word of God that Joseph speaks to his brothers and father.)   7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.   8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.   9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.   10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?   11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.   💥💥💥   God speaks to us by thoughts brought by the Holy Spirit, by dreams, by words carried by angels,   God speaks and when the word comes to us often that Word of God divides us from those persons who are not of God.   Jesus explains:   Matthew 10   34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.   35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.   36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.   37 He that loveth father or mother more than ME is not worthy of ME: and he that loveth son or daughter more than ME is not worthy of ME.   38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after ME, is not worthy of ME.   39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for MY sake shall find it.   💥💥💥   God speaks to Joseph by 2 dreams.   And Joseph's brothers hated Joseph and envied him.   Jacob (Israel), Joseph's father, sent Joseph to see how his brother's were doing in caring for the herd.   The brothers were going to kill Joseph.   But this happened:   Genesis 37   18  And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.   19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.   20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.   21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.   22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.   23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;   The brothers killed an animal and dipped the coat of many colors into the blood of the animal and took the coat to Joseph's father to make his father think an animal had killed Joseph.   His father had given Joseph a coat of many colors because Joseph was his favorite son among the 12 sons.   24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.   25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.   26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?   27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.   28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.   💥💥💥   No matter how terrible things look, God uses these things to accomplish HIS purpose by HIS elect.   Romans 8:28   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to HIS purpose.   💥💥💥   As we share those dreams God has given us and as we share the words God has spoken to us we help the body of Christ and often even cause others in the body of Christ to remember things God has done for them, thus causing them to have their faith in God increased.   We see the working of God in the testimonies which we and others give to the people of God.   Philemon v. 6   That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on July 21, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Psalm 145:11-12   and (we) talk of THY power;   To make known to the sons of men HIS mighty acts,   💥💥💥   Comments by Joan Boney:   We can check ourselves, and others, by the above scripture:   * Are we talking about that which God has done in our lives?  Are they telling us that which God has done?   * Are we showing the works of God when we speak?  Are they showing the works of God by their words?   💥💥💥   Examples:   # 1.  I saw the British Open Golf Tournament in July.   Are we talking about what God has done?  NO Are we showing the works of God?  NO   💥💥💥   # 2.  As I looked at my 25 year old car, I was thinking about having new upholstery put on front seat, and I had the following bought to mind:  "Or you could just buy a new car."  I could buy a new car.  I had sold my house in Texas and had the cash in the bank from the sale of the house.   Are we talking about what God has done?  YES  Are we showing the works of God?  YES   Matthew 11:30   God's yoke is easy.  God's burden is light.   John 16:13  The Holy Spirit "guides you".   💥💥💥   # 3.  I began having trouble finding food to eat.  Nothing seemed to taste good.  I was 83 when this happened.  I began praying asking God to help me and show me what to do.  I began thinking about buying an outdoor grill.  I had the money so I could pay cash.  Several times in the next few weeks, I thought of a grill.  I bought a grill.   Are we talking about what God has done?  YES Are we showing the works of God?  YES   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.   💥💥💥   #  4.  Pastor wanted to build a new church building.  I asked him:  What did God say to you about this?  Did God show you to build a new building?  Pastor did not answer me at all.  Two times pastor asked me to come see his building and "bless" his building.  Pastor's wife said they really wanted me to come see their work that they were planning.  Never did either of them mention anything about God.   Do we have any evidence that God is leading them to do this?  NO   💥💥💥   # 5.   I had a dream:  A woman was singing.  I said, "It's a little voice, but it is a nice little voice."  Then in the dream there was a blog and I saw it was a way to communicate with the church.   Blog:  no cost to publish Blog:  goes all over the world instantly Blog:  no censor of materials written  (complete freedom in writing)   Do we have any evidence that God led me to start a blog?  YES   💥💥💥   # 6.  Man comes to our house to do extermination work.  He identifies himself to me as a Christian.  Then this man says, "You could always pray that the mice would go to the house of neighbor that you hate."  I replied:  "I don't have any neighbors that I hate."  Later he began telling me that he goes on ministry trips to different cities each summer.  I asked:  "And how did God tell you to do this?"  He had no answer to this question.   Is he talking about what God has done?  NO Is he showing the works of God?  NO   💥💥💥   #7.  I saw a new TV series that has potential.   Are we talking about what God has done?  NO Are we showing the works of God?  NO   💥💥💥   # 8.  An announcement was made at church of a ministry trip with the singles class at church.  As a young woman, Pam Padgett signed up for this trip.  There was no mention of "how" they were to "minister".  The church was several hundred miles away, on the other side of the state.   No one knew what they were to do to "minister" when they arrived at the church.   Is there evidence that God authored this trip?  NO   💥💥💥   # 9.  In 1982, I was reading the following scripture from 2 Thessalonians 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first,   As I read this scripture, I heard these words which I believed to be information from God:  "This falling away are not people leaving the churches.  This falling away are the churches leaving the scripture."   Today is there evidence of churches having left portions of scripture and having set up new doctrines opposite to the instruction of the Bible in their groups?   YES   Was this information given to me in 1982 likely a word of knowledge from God based on the evidence seen today in churches?   YES   💥💥💥   The apostle Paul said:   I Thessalonians 5:21  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.   Do you do that concerning the things you say to others?  Do you evaluate what others say to you?   💥💥💥   One of our neighbors told Pam Padgett to tell me "hello" and also to tell me how much she enjoyed hearing the story of my old car.   Evaluation:  This neighbor didn't mention the scriptures which I sent to her concerning homosexuals and lesbians though I sent many scriptures on this subject to her:  Romans 1:26-28; Genesis 13:13; Genesis 19; I Kings 14:24; I Kings 15:12; I Kings 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7   A few days before this neighbor told this to Pam, I became aware of how much deception people carry to us and I began praying for God not to let me to be deceived or deluded.   After hearing the message from this neighbor, I was at first glad ... but then I was reminded that she said nothing about enjoying what I wrote where I shared those scriptures concerning homosexuals and lesbians!   I believe this tells the truth about this woman.  She does not delight in the scriptures, the Word of God.  But she wants to delight in that which she sees humans do.     Many church-going people are like this.   We need to pray that we not be deceived nor deluded by people.   For these are indeed "perilous times".   2 Timothy 3   1-4 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;   5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.   (They tell you where they go to church.  They love their buildings and delight in their stained glass windows and in their pastors, but they do not love the Word of God!)   7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.   8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.   13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.   14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;  (God teaches us.)   15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.   16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.   💥💥💥   And Jesus says:   Matthew 7:21-23  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.   22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?   23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 28, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   The linage from Abraham to Moses is very interesting to those who are interested in the elect of God.   For there is an elect of God which will be taken by Jesus into heaven when Jesus returns to gather the elect of God from off this earth.   Matthew 24:31 And HE (Jesus) shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.   💥💥💥   Abraham was chosen by God to be the father of many nations.   When the apostles of the early church saw God give the Holy Spirit to the Gentiles, they could trace the promise of the Gentiles back to Abraham, for God said Abraham would be the father of "many nations."   Acts 13:48  And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.   Acts 26:20   But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.   Galatians 3:14  That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.   I Corinthians 12:13  For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.   Isaiah 62:2  And the Gentiles shall see THY righteousness,   Isaiah 49:6  And HE said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be MY servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be MY salvation unto the end of the earth.   Abraham:  "A father of many nations"  (including the Gentiles)   💥💥💥   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;   💥💥💥   Genesis 15   1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.   2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?   3 And Abram said, Behold, to me THOU hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.  (Eliezer at this point in time)   4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.   5 And HE (God) brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and HE (God) said unto him, So shall thy seed be.   6 And he (Abram) believed in the LORD; and HE (God) counted it to him for righteousness.   💥💥💥   Genesis 17   1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before ME, and be thou perfect.   2 And I will make MY covenant between ME and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.   3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,   4 As for ME, behold, MY covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.   5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.   6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.   7 And I will establish MY covenant between ME and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.   8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.   9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep MY covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.   💥💥💥   Genesis 17   15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.   16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.   17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?   18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!   19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish MY covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.   The child of the promise of God is named by God as Isaac.   So the linage of the elect of God, the children of God, will go through the promised son, Isaac.   💥💥💥   Isaac had 2 sons by Rebecca:  Jacob (the younger) and Esau (the elder).   Romans 9   10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;   11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of HIM that calleth;)   12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.   13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.   💥💥💥   Genesis 26  God speaks to Isaac   1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.   2 And the LORD appeared unto him (to Isaac), and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:   3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;   4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;   5 Because that Abraham obeyed MY voice, and kept MY charge, MY commandments, MY statutes, and MY laws.   (If we want to be blessed by God, then we obey God's voice and keep the commandments, the statutes, and the laws of God as set forth in the New Testament Bible.)   6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:   Genesis 26   12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.   (Sow in the land that is given to you by God.  God gave me the land of radio, blog, books, and Podcast.  I sow in that land.  What is the land given to you by God?)   13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:   14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.   Genesis 26   23 And he (Isaac) went up from thence to Beersheba.   24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for MY servant Abraham's sake.   25 And he (Isaac) builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well. 💥💥💥   Isaac had 2 sons:  Jacob (the younger) and Esau.   Jacob, the son of Isaac, is the elect of God, chosen by God.   God named Jacob, Israel.  And through Jacob will come the 12 sons of Israel, the 12 tribes of Israel.   (Jacob will be renamed "Israel" by God.)   💥💥💥   Esau, Jacob's brother, marries a daughter of Canaan and this woman greatly grieves Isaac and Rebecca.   Genesis 27:46   And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?   So Isaac and Rebecca send their son Jacob (the elect of God)  to their own people so he can choose a wife of the daughters of their people rather than from the daughters of Canaan who grieve them.   Genesis 28  (God speaks to Jacob as he travels to get his wife.  We see God showing that Jacob is HIS elect because HE speaks to Jacob.)   10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.   11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.   12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.   13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;   14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.   15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.   16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.   It is one thing for your father on earth to say, "God spoke this to me."  But when God speaks directly to you by either word or by dreams, it is another thing, for now God has chosen you and you know God because HE spoke to you.   💥💥💥   Now we have 3 generations of the elect of God:   Abraham, Isaac, Jacob   God renames Jacob as "Israel" ... and by Jacob's 12 sons come the children of Israel, and one of those 12 sons is going to be that elect of God.   Genesis 35  (God renames Jacob)   9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.   10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and HE called his name Israel.   11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;   12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.   13 And God went up from him in the place where HE talked with him.   God promised Abraham the land.  God promises Isaac the land.  God promises Jacob the land.   And they wait having faith in God not seeing the promise but later it comes.   Hebrews 11   13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.   14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.   15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.   16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for HE hath prepared for them a city.   💥💥💥   Genesis 37   1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.   2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.   3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.   4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.   (Notice in verse 2 we read these are the generations of Jacob ... but only Joseph is named though there are 11 other sons, the 12 tribes of Israel.)   Now we have 4 generations of the elect of God:  Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) , Joseph   Genesis 46   1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.   2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.   3 And HE said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:   4  I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.   5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.   6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:   💥💥💥   The children of Israel  (The 12 sons of Jacob who is now Israel)   Genesis 46   And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons:   Reuben Simeon Levi Judah Issachar Zebulun Gad Asher Dan Naphtali   19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife;   Joseph, and Benjamin.   (Joseph is the elect of God.)   Romans 9:6-9   Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:  Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.  That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on September 1, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   God has spoken to me many times.  I've never had God say to me, "I am God speaking."  HE just brings truth to my mind and opens my eyes to see truth.  Mostly I do realize that which was spoken was not coming from me but from God.   I think it might help you to re-read those times God spoke to Pam Padgett.  God might use these examples to show you HE has been speaking to you but you failed to recognize it was God.  (We recently re-published that Podcast on July 16, 2026.)   On this Podcast we are going to focus on that which God has spoken to you.   Consider this question:   What has God spoken to you?   Again I encourage you to sit down and make a list of those Words which you believe to have been spoken to you by God.   For when we are children of God, God speaks to us, HIS children.   Just ask God to bring to your mind those things HE has said to you.   After you list things you believe God spoke to you, we would enjoy it very much if you shared those things with us.  If you would send an email we  could put these in with other words spoken to other people of God and that would edify the body of Christ.   Send these by email to: [email protected]   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 27, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   What can be more important for a parent than the mate their child marries?   (Much prayer and help is needed from God in this matter if you are a parent.)   Isaac was the child of the promise of God.   Abraham knew it would be bad if Isaac married one of the daughters of Cannan.  So Abraham instructed his servant and sent his servant to bring from his people a wife for Isaac.   💥💥💥   Genesis 24   1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.   2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:   3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:   4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.   5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?   6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.   7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; HE shall send HIS angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.   (Abraham had strong grounds upon which to have faith that God would lead in this matter.)   8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.   9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.   💥💥💥 10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.   11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.   12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.   13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:   14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that THOU hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that THOU hast shewed kindness unto my master.   (A woman showing kindness to the servant and also to the animals would be a woman with a good and kind disposition, caring for both man and helpless beast.)   💥💥💥   One of our church members had a twice divorced 50 year old son who wanted to find a wife and have children.  I felt I had counsel from God on this matter.  I told her:  Tell him a woman who would have sex with him before marriage would not be a suitable wife.   💥💥💥   Genesis 24   15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.   16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.   17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.   18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.   19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.   (She considered both man and beast.)   20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.   (She went immediately to care for the 10 camels, showing a diligence and also that she was not a lazy woman.)   💥💥💥 21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.   22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;   23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?   24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.   25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.   26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.   27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of HIS mercy and HIS truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.   28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.   29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.   30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.   31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.   32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.   33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand.   (Abraham's servant acted with urgency and honor in his assigned task.)   And he (Laban) said, Speak on.   34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.   35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and HE hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.   36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.   37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:   38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.   39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.   40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send HIS angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:   41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.   42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now THOU do prosper my way which I go:  43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;  44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.   45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee. 46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.   47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.   48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.   49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.   50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.   51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.   52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.   53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.   54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.   55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.   56 And he (Abraham's servant) said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.   57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.   58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.   (Rebekah saw the way God was working in this matter and she didn't hesitate to go.)   💥💥💥 59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.   60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.   61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.   💥💥💥 62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.   63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.   64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.   65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.   66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.   67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.   💥💥💥   The apostle Paul shows us that at the time of sexual intercourse the two become one flesh:   I Corinthians 6   15 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.   We see how the two become one flesh in this scripture.  Marriage is honorable.  But fornication for the New Testament church is not honorable.   Therefore Paul warns:   I Corinthians 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.   While there are no examples of marriage "ceremonies" in the Bible, the following scriptures certainly provide information as to the vow that should come in the marriage today.   Mark 10  Jesus says:   6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.   7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;   8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.   9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.   Genesis 2   18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.   21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and HE (God) took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;   22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made HE a woman, and brought her unto the man.   23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.   24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.   (Prior to the marriage, both the man and woman should be instructed on each of the above scriptures.)   And the following roles for the man and woman are important:   Genesis 3  (Because of the transgression)   16 Unto the woman HE (God) said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.   17 And unto Adam HE (God) said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;   18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;   19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.   💥💥💥   Do you have the faith to pray asking God to choose the right mate for your child?   And then to pray asking God to teach you to love that mate properly and continue in prayer as to your own role in godliness toward the mate and your child.   This is a choice that I would want God to make.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 26, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Pam Padgett is a member of the body of Christ, chosen by God and given the Holy Spirit by God.   I wanted you to see how God speaks to Pam for this is a very good example for you to know that God speaks to all of those who are the elect of God, not just to HIS chosen ministers.   💥💥💥   Pam says:   In 1970 a boy in my class died in a motorcycle accident.  For the first time I realized that someone my age (14 years old) could die.  I also strongly "knew" that if I died that day I would go to hell, and that my only hope was God.   Nothing I or anyone else could do would save me.  God was my only hope.   So I started to pray, but realized I didn't know who to address this prayer to.   We had been taught in the Catholic church that there is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, but I didn't know which one to pray to and it was very important to me that this prayer be heard.   So I started my prayer by saying "I know there is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, but I don't know which one to pray to.  So please get this prayer to the right one."   Then I asked that, if there was any way possible to save me, to please do so.   💥💥💥   After I prayed, my eyes were drawn to the following scripture which was written on a bookmark.  It strongly stood out to me and comforted me.   Matthew 11:28-30  Jesus says ... Come unto ME, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  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.  For MY yoke is easy, and MY burden is light.   Now I know it was God giving me the understanding that God is my only hope, and drawing my attention to Matthew 11:28-30.   💥💥💥   A short time after I turned to God asking Him to please save me, I began to realize that there was "something of God in me".   One example is when I was talking with a few girls at school before class began.  One of the girls said "You could never guess where I went yesterday afternoon."   I knew within me where she had gone.  I said "You went to the cemetery, to Tommy's grave."  (Tommy was the boy in our class who had died in the motorcycle accident.)   She said that was correct and that I must have seen her there.   I told her that I had not seen her, but they had gone on talking about other things and didn't seem to hear.   But it was obvious to me that there was no way I could have known that she had gone to the cemetery.  It had to be that God had given me this information.   I now believe this was a word of knowledge from God.   I Corinthians 12:8  For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;   💥💥💥   During my senior year of high school, when my family returned home from visiting my sister at her college, a friend of my mom called her.  This friend's husband owned the wrecker service in our small town.  She told my mom that there had been a serious car accident involving some of the boys from our high school, but she didn't know who the boys were.   That night I was given a dream in which I was shown who had been in the accident and that Steve had been killed in it.  Steve was in my class.   The next morning my mom spoke with her friend again on the telephone and learned who had been in the accident.  My mom came to my room to tell me, but before she said anything I told her that I knew that Steve had been killed in the accident.   I think my mom assumed I had overheard her talking with her friend, but I knew that God had told me this by the dream.   💥💥💥   Although I knew there was "something of God in me" after I asked God to please save me, I didn't know what that was.   A few years later God explained to me that it was the Holy Spirit in me as I read the following in I Corinthians.   I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?   I Corinthians 6:19   What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?     💥💥💥     A scripture that stood out to me as a young Christian is the following, helping me to trust in God, not in my own works.   Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.   💥💥💥   During the last months of college I rented a room in the home of a woman, named Cindy.  I had met her in the singles group at the church I attended at the time.  Cindy had been divorced twice and had a young daughter.  At first she seemed content to remain single and raise her daughter.  But then she began to look for another husband.   I spoke with her and shared scriptures with her warning that she would commit adultery if she remarried.  It was a big shock when she replied "I don't care what the Bible says.  I know what I believe."   But God says:   Romans 7:2-3  For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.  So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.   I Corinthians 7:10-11  Paul says:  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.   I Corinthians 7:39  The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.   Shortly after this, I graduated and moved from Cindy's house to a town about 30 minutes from where this church group met.  I no longer attended the singles group meetings although I still attended the Sunday morning service and sat with those in the singles group, visiting with them before and after the service.   Someone told me that Cindy had become engaged to marry a man who also attended the singles group, Terry.   I went to Terry and shared scripture with him warning of the adultery that would be committed if he and Cindy married since she was divorced.  Terry said he would consider these things, but he didn't stop the wedding plans.   Matthew 5:32   But I (Jesus) 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.   Then I heard that another woman I had met in the singles group, Lisa, was going to be maid of honor at Terry and Cindy's wedding.   I went to Lisa and shared scripture warning of the adultery that would be committed by this marriage.  Lisa said she knew this was wrong but that they would get married anyway, so she was going to be maid of honor.   I Timothy 5:22 ... neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.   💥💥💥   Then something strange began to happen when I went to the Sunday morning church service.   One Sunday morning I got to the church a little early and sat in the area where those in the singles group sat, but none of the singles came to sit in that area.  As the service was about to begin, I turned and saw that those in the singles group were sitting in an area behind me.   The next Sunday morning I sat in what I thought was the "new" singles group area, but those in the singles group sat in the "old" area.   The following Sunday morning I got to the church building shortly before the service began.  I went to where those in the singles group were sitting and sat down.   Without saying a word, they got up and moved away from me to sit another area of the church auditorium.   Now it was obvious to me that those in the singles group did not want to associate with me, but I didn't know why.   I cried out to God, asking what was going on?  Had I done something wrong?   💥💥💥   A few weeks later a woman I didn't know very well came to me after the Sunday morning service.   She said she had a word from God for me.   The word she delivered was that God knew how those in the singles group were treating me, and that I needed to know it was because I had spoken to the various people involved in Cindy and Terry's wedding, and that this is what HE (God) had wanted me to do.   It was so comforting to receive this word, for I then knew why this had happened and that I had done what was right in the sight of God.     💥💥💥   In approximately 1983 while sitting in the Metrochurch auditorium waiting for the Sunday morning service to begin, I heard the following:   "What are you doing sitting here?  I told you to get out.  Now get out."   I became convinced this was from God and asked God when HE had previously told me to leave this church group.  I was reminded of the "Poison Gas Dream" which Joan Boney had shared with us and warnings she had given to us about those church groups that corrupt the Word of God.   The Poison Gas Dream   (Given to Joan Boney in1979)   Destruction was everywhere.   In this dream, a meeting was going on. A man was speaking to a room filled with people. I went in and began to listen.   A second man rushed into the room and said: "Stop ... Wait ... Can't you see ... It's too late ... It's already begun."   The first man resumed speaking.   I looked out the window to see what had "already begun."   There was a tall pole with a yellow civil defense speaker at top of the pole. A gas was coming out of the speaker. I knew it was poisonous and would kill the people. It was coming directly toward us!   The shocking thing was the speaker that was set there for the purpose of warning us was being used as the instrument which dispersed the gas that was poison and would kill us!   I looked at the man seated next to me. He had a big grin on his face and was looking directly at the man who was speaking to the group. But then I saw this man was a corpse, though he looked alive. He was already dead!   I looked about the room at the other people and realized they were all dead.   As I sat back in my chair and listened to the man speaking I began to feel sleepy and I knew as I sat there among them this was killing me too.   Dream ends.   (Comments by Joan Boney) God was showing me the anarchy in the church groups, at the time of the dream, 1979. And it is much worse today.   💥💥💥   After God showed me this, I left that church group.   Metrochurch was approving and performing marriage ceremonies in which the woman was divorced.  Many scriptures in the Bible show us that if a divorced woman remarries she commits adultery and the man who marries her commits adultery.   Matthew 5:32   But I (Jesus) 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.   Romans 7:2-3  For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.  So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.   I Corinthians 7:10-11 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.   I Corinthians 7:39  The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 💥💥💥   Here is another example of God speaking to me.   When my mom was very ill in an intensive care unit, I asked God if I should go to Oklahoma to be with her and help her.  (I lived in Colorado, approximately 600 miles away).  The Holy Spirit spoke the following to me, and because of this, I did not go to Oklahoma:   "To go there would be like stepping into a hill of fire ants.  And your mom has everything she needs."   I believed this word and did not go to Oklahoma.   When my mom recovered enough to go home, I spoke with her on the telephone.  She told me of several people who had come to the hospital to see her.  I realized that what these people tend to say and do is a grief to me.  It is like being stung by fire ants, very painful and requiring me to need healing by God from the poison of their words and works.   My mom also told me of the wonderful care she had received.  She had everything she needed.   💥💥💥   One day my sisters called to tell me my dad was very ill and not expected to live more than a few days, and that I needed to go to Oklahoma right away to be with him before he died.  I asked God what I should do and I heard:   "You've already said everything needed."   I did not go to be with my dad.  He recovered.  A couple weeks later when I called to talk with my parents my mom told me my dad was out mowing the yard!   When my dad died a few years later, he simply died in his sleep.   After my dad died, I asked God if HE would please let me know in some way whether my dad was born again.   A few days later, I was given a dream in which my dad was my "brother".  I believe God was showing me that my dad is my brother in Christ, born again!   Also in this dream, my dad told me "You have always been there for me."  I've been reminded of this and greatly comforted when my sisters have made comments about my being wrong (in their opinions) for not going to visit my parents during the last years of their lives, although we spoke on the telephone many times.   💥💥💥   A year or two after my dad died, I recognized a change in my mom.  She no longer spoke about other people and what they were doing.  Instead, she spoke of reading the Bible and things of God.   She was changed, born again.   Several months later I was given a dream in which my mom was putting things in order.  I believed I was being shown she was putting things in her life in order and was about to die.   She died about 2 weeks later.   💥💥💥   In 2001 when looking for a house to buy near the new location of my work, none of the houses which were available to buy and which I had seen appealed to me.  I asked God to please show me what house to buy.   I was given the idea to go through the information sheets I had picked up about each house I had seen.  As I did this, my attention was drawn to something about each house which showed that house wouldn't work for me ... each house except one.   The Holy Spirit was showing me truth about each of these houses as I went through the information about the houses.   John 16:13  Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall he speak: and HE will shew you things to come.   I arranged to again see the one house for which I was not shown any problem.  As I walked through the house I began to see things I really liked about the house but had missed when first seeing it.  I purchased that house.   This house has worked out perfectly for me throughout the 20 years I've lived in it.   💥💥💥   Around April, 2018, it was put in my heart by God to add a main-floor bedroom and handicap accessible shower in my house.  Work started in July, 2018.   The main-floor bedroom and shower were nearing completion when Joan Boney fell at her house in Texas in December, 2018, and she knew that she could not live alone any more.  God had also told her that she would never see her house (in Texas) again.   After spending 2-1/2 months in hospitals, Joan moved from Texas to Colorado in February, 2019, and she has lived in the main-floor bedroom of my house since then.    It has been wonderful having another of the elect of God living right here, and it allows us to work together very easily on blogs, podcasts, and books.   💥💥💥   Proverbs 3:5-7  Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.   💥💥💥   In 2005, I was engaged to marry a man who said he was a Christian.  One evening on the telephone he told me with great excitement that his son was engaged to marry and what he planned to do to help with the wedding preparations.  The woman his son was engaged to marry was a divorced woman.   I told him that, according to the Bible, his son would commit adultery if he married a divorced woman.   (Matthew 5:32  Jesus says:  ... whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.)   After telling what God has told us in the Bible about the adultery committed when a man marries a divorced woman, warning of the adultery his son would commit if he married this woman, the man I was engaged to marry no longer wanted to marry me.   I was quite upset.   But then the Holy Spirit said to me "Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers".   And the Holy Spirit explained to me that this man was not a "believer" although he said he was a Christian, for he did not believe and uphold the Word of God given to us in Matthew 5:32.   It was a great comfort to me to be shown the truth about this man I was engaged to marry, and it made me very grateful to God that I did not marry this man.   2 Corinthians 6:14-18  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 thing; 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. 💥💥💥   In 2011, I was shown to leave my computer programming job at FedEx when the following scripture strongly caught my 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.   💥💥💥   This is one of the scriptures given to me by the Holy Spirit which set my course of faith in God.   God says:   Psalm 32:8  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with Mine eye.   💥💥💥   Another scripture given to me which has been very important.   Matthew 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.   💥💥💥   When my 20-year old cat was sleeping more and more and not as steady when she walked, I asked God how I would know the best time to put the cat to sleep.   I heard "You'll see blood".   A few weeks later the cat vomited and I saw blood in the vomit.   Immediately I was reminded of the word I had been given to know when it was time to put the cat to sleep, and I did this right away.   It was a great comfort to me to have been given the best time to do this.   💥💥💥   Dream given to me - 3/19/2006   I was in a rather small army and we were about to be attacked by a much larger army. We were led to go into a room on an upper floor of a building. We knew the enemy would come there and that the battle would be in this room.   There was a table and chairs in the room. Although I thought about turning the table on its side to use as a type of shield, other people had already started doing that.   We didn’t have weapons such as guns; we were given forks.   There was a closet near the door through which the enemy would enter. I took a fork and went into the closet, leaving the closet door partially opened.   Then the enemy started coming through the door. I reached out of the closet, grabbed an enemy soldier, and stabbed the soldier several times with my fork. When that soldier fell, I reached and grabbed another.   After having done this several times, the enemy saw what I was doing and 3 of them came to kill me.   It looked totally hopeless for me.   But then, suddenly, the fighting stopped.   I asked others in the army I was in why the fighting stopped and was told that it was because I was being attacked.   There was a rule that if a soldier was already injured, they could not be attacked. At first I wondered how this pertained to me, but then saw a small cut on my left arm.  I don’t think I was even aware of this during the battle, and it certainly hadn’t stopped me from killing several of the enemy.  But, evidently, this was seen as a serious offense by those in power. So the fighting had been stopped and the enemy army was held responsible for this by those in authority.   Jesus said:  Matthew 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.   I was concerned that I had stabbed each enemy soldier several times and wondered if this was going against the rules as well. However, I was told that this was ok since I stabbed the soldier multiple times in the same attack ... I hadn’t set out to attack someone who was already wounded.   As we waiting in the room, we received word that the enemy had admitted they were wrong. We thought the fighting would now resume. But as we waiting in the room for the enemy to return, we noticed through a window that the enemy troops were marching out of the city. The battle was over.   I turned and told those in the room that this was God’s doing (that we weren’t destroyed by the enemy and that the battle was over), and others agreed.   After waking from this dream, I was reminded of the following:   II Corinthians 10:3-5   For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;   Isaiah 55:8-9  God says: For MY thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, saith the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways, and MY thoughts than your thoughts.   💥💥💥   Dream given to me - 2/27/2020   There had been an explosion.  Somehow it was known that the person responsible for this explosion had setup another explosion for a specific day.  We even knew the approximate time.   I started to leave the building where I was working on the sixth floor before the second explosion was to take place, but just a few steps down the stairs I remembered my purse.  I ran to where my purse was and got it.   Then I proceeded to leave, going down the stairs very quickly.  I counted each floor as I passed by it descending down the stairs.   Some people were standing along the stairs, talking.  I could tell by their talk that they knew the explosion was supposed to be coming, but they seemed to feel no sense of urgency.  I didn’t stop to try to persuade them to get out right away.  Instead, I went around them and continued getting to the first floor so I could leave the building.   I got out of the building and continued quickly on my way to leave the area.   At one point I was aware the second explosion had happened.  There was a wall of glass doors in the outside area where I was.  I went through one of the doors to the other side, getting as far away from the destruction as I could.  I kept walking as quickly as possible.   At one point I saw a woman walking around with a dazed look.  She was carrying a recording device.  I heard her say she was interviewing people who had been hurt or raped during this event.   I kept walking as quickly as possible toward the parking lot so I could leave.   After I awoke from this dream, I heard: “Save yourself from this untoward generation”   Acts 2:40   And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.   Untoward:  perverse, crooked, froward, inappropriate, offensive, willful   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 25, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   In the previous Podcasts, I shared Words God spoke to Abraham which are recorded in Genesis.   I suggest that you list some of those Words that God has spoken to you.  For if you are born again, God will communicate with you by HIS Spirit.  I will give you examples of words God has sent to me at various times in my life.   There are far too many times God has spoken to me for me to list all of those Words, but I will share with you some of those Words which God has spoken to me during my life.   💥💥💥   God said to me:   * August 5, 1975   "Joan ... you know those mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."   I was born again with those words.   💥💥💥   *  "Don't testify."   Because I believed I had heard from God, I did not testify in a court trial where a woman had taken me to court over an incident that happened at my business in the mid-1970's.   💥💥💥   *  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.  (Isaiah 54:17)   By this word, I had faith to dismiss my lawyers and to go to court without any human legal counsel, stopping the attorney fees.   💥💥💥   In approximate 1978, I was driving down highway and God began speaking to me and said:  "I have called you and set you into the body of Christ as an apostle."   I was shocked and replied:  "Apostle ... what's an apostle?"   Concerning ministers that Jesus gives to the New Testament church:   Ephesians 4:11-12   And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;   For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:   I knew I was a prophet but now God shows me I am also an apostle:  apostle/prophet  two offices   After I was born again, in the night, I was transported into heaven as I was asleep.  I was with God, with Christ, with the Holy Spirit.  (No images.  Just a spiritual experience.)  At that time, I was merged into the body of Jesus, made one with the Word of God, God and Holy Spirit witnessing.   A few nights later, exactly the same thing happened again in the night as I was sleeping.   2 offices:  2 ordinations by God   (God taught me the work to do in the New Testament church in the offices of apostle and prophet.)   💥💥💥   God has spoken many scriptures to me through the years.  I have taken those scriptures and kept them before me day and night, often for months, and "lived" those scriptures, making those scriptures a part of me.   John 5:30  Jesus says:  I can of Mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and MY judgment is just; because I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent ME.   Matthew 16:13-19   When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, HE asked HIS disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?   14 And they said, Some say that THOU art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.   15 HE saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?   16 And Simon Peter answered and said, THOU art the Christ, the Son of the living God.   17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but MY Father which is in heaven.   18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock (the word that God brings from heaven) I will build MY church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.   19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.   💥💥💥   Joshua 1    God says:   5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.   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.   9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.   Psalm 1   1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.   2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in HIS law doth he meditate day and night.   3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.   4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.   5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.   6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. 💥💥💥 As a new Christian in 1975, I was having severe satanic attacks and the following scripture stood out to me and when the problem struck I would focus on this scripture.   Psalm 118:17   I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.   💥💥💥   James 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.   I put "Pray for wisdom," at top of the chapters of my Bible so I would remember to do this.   Also I tried to remember to do this when a problem surfaced in my life.   💥💥💥   Concerning the working of the Holy Spirit, God taught me the following:   John 14:26  Jesus says:  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.   John 16:13  Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of HIMSELF; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.   I Corinthians 2   Paul says:   1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.   2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and HIM crucified.   3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.   4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:   5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.   9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM.   10 But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.   11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.   12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.   13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.   14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.   John 6:63  Jesus says:  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.   💥💥💥   On January 10, 1980, in the night while I was sleeping, a very loud trumpet-like voice, spoke three words to me in my ear.   "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"   Within 5 days, I was broadcasting exhortations for the church on radio KWJS.  Within the year, I was on radio from Hartford to Seattle.   I believe this was an angel of God speaking to me for the voice was like a trumpet and this is the way angels are described in the Bible.   💥💥💥   I Thessalonians 4:17  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.   One day God said to me, "in the air".  I found this in the above scripture.  God showed me the new heaven and the new earth where we will be taken.  Revelation 21   💥💥💥   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; 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 individuals leaving the church group.  The falling away are the church groups leaving the scriptures."   In 2017, God said the word, "restrains".   I found this word in:   II Thessalonians 2:6-7 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 who now restrains will do so until HE is removed.   It is Jesus, The Word, who restrains antichrist.  When The Word who restrains antichrist is removed from the church, antichrist moves into the church group.   💥💥💥   Some of the scriptures God taught me to live:   Philippians 2:5-7  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  But made himself of no reputation,   Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.   Psalm 23:1  The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.   Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to HIS riches in glory by Christ Jesus.   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.   And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.   (The above are just some of the scriptures God has spoken to me which I have lived by keeping these verses before me day and night, sometimes for months, to do the scriptures.)   💥💥💥   On December 6, 2018, when I fell at my house in Texas and was trying to crawl with a broken hip and badly broken left wrist, I didn't think I could get to the phone to call for help.  But if I didn't, I felt I might die there on the floor because no one was due to come to my house until the following week.  I heard these words from the Holy Spirit.  "You can do this."  Because I knew this was from God, I began inching my way an inch at a time toward the room where there was a phone.  It took 4 1/2 hours to reach the phone which was on top of a table.  I pulled on the cord and the phone receiver squirted off and I never saw it again.  But under that table there was a Kindle tablet which was recharging.  I managed to send email to our church group saying, "Help ... fallen ... send ambulance."  Pam Padgett from Colorado called the Lubbock, Texas, police department and told them what had happened and they sent ambulance to my house.   As the ambulance workers were rolling me on a gurney past my front door, I heard from God:   "You'll never see this house again."   I was in hospitals for 2 1/2 months.  From my hospital room, I put the house up for sale with realtor.   I never saw the Texas house again.  I was taken, on February 24, 2019, directly to Colorado where I would live in the home of Pam Padgett and she would help me.   💥💥💥   The Texas house was on the real estate market from December, 2018, through March 11, 2020. When the Coronavirus hit USA, I was terrified and asked God, "Is there anything YOU want me to do about that house in Texas?"   Immediately, I heard these words of instruction from God:  "Put the house on special sale for one week and reduce the price."   I called realtor that same day and gave her the above instructions.   The house sold in 2 days.   💥💥💥   In June, 2020, I was considering putting new upholstery on my 25 year old car.  God spoke to me by HIS Spirit saying, "Or you could just buy a new car."   "That's right!  I could."  I had just sold the Texas house and the money was in my bank account.  I could pay cash for a car and have money left over from the sale of the house.   That same night, I had a dream where I bought a new car.   The following day, I told Pam Padgett about these words from God and the dream, and told her I would like to go that afternoon and look for a car.  We drove 4 cars and selected one and bought that car that afternoon.   💥💥💥   One day in 2021, I was bombarded by a series of thoughts:  "You're 83.  What if this happens to you?  What if that happens?  What if you get to where you can't walk?  You'll have to go to assisted living home."   I cried out:  "God ... help me!"   Instantly, the thought came to me from the Holy Spirit:  "God will supply all your need."   "That's right!"  I shouted with great joy and relief!   💥💥💥   It is so important for each member of the body of Christ to share with the body of Christ for by sharing that which God has said to us and that which God has done in our lives, we allow others to see God working in us, and our own faith becomes effectual, and the body of Christ is helped.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 24, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Genesis 18   1 And the LORD appeared unto him (to Abraham) in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;   (God appeared to Abraham in the form of 3 angels who appeared before him.)   9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.   10 And HE said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.   (Sarah laughed.)   13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?   14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD?   At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.   15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And HE said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.   💥💥💥 17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;   18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?   19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which HE hath spoken of him.   20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;   21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto ME; and if not, I will know.   💥💥💥   Abraham pleaded with God for Sodom to be saved and God said HE would not destroy Sodom if there were 10 righteous men in Sodom.   But the men of Sodom were exceeding wicked above all other men.  (Genesis 13:13)   The men of Sodom were homosexuals in "every quarter" of the city of Sodom.  (Genesis 19)   God destroyed Sodom after HE removed Abraham's nephew, Lot.   💥💥💥   Genesis 21   11 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.   10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.   11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son (Ishmael).   12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.   13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.   💥💥💥   Genesis 22   1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.   2 And HE said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.   Abraham took his only son Isaac to the mountain which was specified by God and Abraham tied Isaac and put him on the top of the wood and took a knife in his hand to kill Isaac as God told him to do.   11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.   12 And HE said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from ME.   15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,   16 And said, By Myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:   17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;   18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed MY voice.   (When an angel of God speaks the Word of God, it is the same as God speaking.)   💥💥💥   Genesis 25   7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.   8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 23, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Adam was created by God from the dust of the ground.    Genesis 1   First God created everything the man and woman would need:  The heaven and earth, plants, animals, fish and fowl, trees for fruit.   Then God created man.   26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.   27 So God created man in HIS own image, in the image of God created HE him; male and female created HE them.   28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.   31 And God saw every thing that HE had made, and, behold, it was very good.  And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.   Genesis 2   7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.   18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.   21-22  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and HE took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made HE a woman, and brought her unto the man.   23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.   24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.   💥💥💥   After Adam, multitudes of people were born as sons and daughters of men of the earth.   Enoch was a friend of God and did not see death for God removed Enoch from the earth.   Hebrews 11:5  By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.   Noah found grace in the sight of God and God kept Noah from being destroyed in the flood.  Genesis 6   God called Abraham and removed him from his father's house and from his people.  Genesis 12   God spoke to Abraham several times promising Abraham a seed that would be great nations and even as the dust of the earth if it were possible to count the dust, and as the number of stars in the heavens.   Here are some of those promises and words which God presented to Abraham.   The focal point is on "that which God spoke" ... that is what is important!   To each of us the focal point in our own lives is "That which God spoke to us."   💥💥💥   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.   💥💥💥   Genesis 13   14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:   15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.   16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.   17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.   💥💥💥   Genesis 15   1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.   4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.   5 And HE brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and HE said unto him, So shall thy seed be.   7 And HE (God) said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.   13 And HE (God) said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;   14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.   15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.   16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.   18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:   💥💥💥   Genesis 17   1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him,   I am the Almighty God; walk before ME, and be thou perfect.   2 And I will make MY covenant between ME and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.   3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,   4 As for ME, behold, MY covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.   5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.   6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.   7 And I will establish MY covenant between ME and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.   8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.   9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep MY covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.   10 This is MY covenant, which ye shall keep, between ME and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.   15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.   16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.   17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?   18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!   19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish MY covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.   20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.   21 But MY covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.   (Abraham was 99 when he was circumcised and Ishmael was 13.)   💥💥💥   I think it is so interesting to see the Words God gave to Abraham and to see the promises of God and how all that God spoke to Abraham was fulfilled and how Abraham obeyed God in all things spoken by God to him.   God speaks to us today by HIS Spirit and by dreams and even by angels.   Write out those things you can remember God saying to you.  Although there are so many things the Holy Spirit says, yet some words will really stand out to you even years after God spoke them to you.   Every one of the words spoken to us by God will happen.   Also as we share those words God spoke to us and those things God did for us we show God working in our lives and other people are also blessed by our testimony.   Philemon v. 6  That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.   When we tell what God has said and has done in our lives, our faith becomes "effectual" and others see God through our testimony.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 22, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Noah was a righteous man and therefore God did not destroy Noah in the waters of the flood but God made a way of escape for Noah. (the ark)   God also raised up another righteous man unto HIMSELF, Abraham.  (Genesis 12)   God spoke to Abram and told him to depart from his father's house and Abram departed.   Abram departed as the Lord had told him but he didn't know where he was going.  He just departed from his father's land.   Genesis 12   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.   (For 25 years, God told Abram that great nations would come from his seed.  But Sarai, Abram's wife was barren.  In spite of the circumstances, Abram believed God and it was counted by God as righteousness because Abram believed God.  He refused to believe that which he saw with his natural eyes.  Abram clung to the Word of God.)   5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.   6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.   7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.   Abram had no seed.  Abram had no children and his wife Sarai was barren.  Abram was 75 when he departed as God had told him to do and Abram was going to wait another 25 years before God gave him "that promised seed."   8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.   9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.   10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.   💥💥💥   God had chosen Abram and God was with Abram wherever Abram went and God blessed Abram and God cursed anyone who would hurt Abram.   Genesis 12   11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:   12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.   13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.   14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.   15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.   16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.   17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.   18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?   19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.   20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.   Abram is blessed by God and called by God and God is with Abram and no man will hurt Abram for he is the called of God, the chosen by God as was Moses and Joshua later, and as are we now.   Joshua 1:5  God says to Joshua:   There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.   And so it is with those chosen by God.   Hebrews 13:5   Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for HE hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.   Revelation 3:5  Jesus says:   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.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 21, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Noah was a righteous man, so when God destroyed this present earth by waters covering the earth, God made a way to save the life of Noah and His generations.   God later raised up another righteous man:  Abram, renamed Abraham by God.   Genesis 12  (God speaks to Abram)   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;   Keeping the Word spoken by God before us is the only thing that matters.  As we do that, we follow God.  In the coming Podcasts and writings, we will focus on what God said. 💥💥💥   It is so simple.  God speaks to us and we obey God.   Often people will try to turn us from what God said for us to do.   Many of our foes are they of our own households, says Jesus.   Matthew 10   34 Think not that I (The Word)  am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.   35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.   36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.   37 He that loveth father or mother more than ME is not worthy of ME: and he that loveth son or daughter more than ME is not worthy of ME.   38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after ME, is not worthy of ME.   39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for MY sake shall find it.   The Word comes to us and is like a sword, dividing us from those who do not have The Word.   I Peter 2   9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of HIM who hath called you out of darkness into HIS marvellous light:   10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.   Once we were a part of this world but now we are as strangers and pilgrims upon this earth.   11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;   12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.   I Peter 4   3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:   4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:   The Word God gave to us divides us from that which we once were and causes us to be a new creature as we go in God's way.   II 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.   We are changed by God after God speaks to us and we are divided from the world that we once served.   💥💥💥   They watch us and fight us, but there is no counsel against the Word God gives us.   Proverbs 21:30-31   There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.  The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.   The Word that we have heard from God is all that matters.   Matthew 13:45-46    Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:  Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.   And many are turned to God as we follow God with all our heart.  For we will do that which is right in the sight of God and we will not compromise that word that we believe to be from God and many will see and understand and be turned to the Lord.   But we follow God for we know God is all that matters in this life.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 20, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Genesis 9   1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.   2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.   3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.   4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.   5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.   6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made HE man.   💥💥💥   Genesis 9   18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.   19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.   (All humans descended from Noah and his 3 sons, Shem, Ham, Japeth)   💥💥💥   The curse upon Ham:   Genesis 9   20  And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:   21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.   22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.   23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.   24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.   25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.   💥💥💥   From the beginning of man, disobedience toward God was exhibited through man.  By the time of Noah, God saw what man was and it was described as follows:   Genesis 6:5   And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.   v.11  The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.   Many people like to think that man is basically good.  But the opposite is shown in the Bible.  Most men are basically evil for the imaginations of the thoughts of their heart is only evil continually, as stated by God.   Humans often exalt other humans and call them good but the Bible show us the opposite.   Occasionally a righteous man would rise up, such and Noah, and God would save that righteous man.   But mostly humans are evil as shown us by the Bible.   💥💥💥   Humans do the works of the flesh of man:   Galatians 6   19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,   20 Idolatry, witchcraft (following various superstitions), hatred, variance (to vary/argue), emulations (to exalt themselves above others), 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.   The answer for man came with Jesus Christ who said:   John 3:7  Ye must be born again.   God reveals HIMSELF to us and causes us to be changed from that which we once were.   II 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.   God gives us HIS own Spirit, the Holy Spirit, who lives in us to teach us and guide us and show us what to do.   And as we walk in the Spirit, doing the will of God shown to us by the Holy Spirit, we keep our flesh under control so it no longer does what it wants to do.   If we walk in the Spirit, following that which is brought to our mind by the Holy Spirit of God, we have no condemnation.   Romans 8:1   There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.   So by choosing the way of the Spirit we overcome our own flesh and keep our flesh crucified, not letting our flesh do what it wants to do.   The flesh never improves.  We just keep it under the control of the Spirit as we walk in the ways shown us by the Spirit.   And when we choose the way of the Spirit we will automatically produce the fruits of the Spirit.   Galatians 5:22-23   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:   It is not that we learn to do the works of the Spirit.  Because the Spirit lives in us, HE brings thoughts to our mind and we do that which HE shows us.  And when we do that which the Spirit brings to mind, our righteousness is of God because it is God who authored our righteousness through HIS Spirit.   Therefore in all things, we pray, asking God to help us and to show us what to do.   We put our trust in God rather than trusting in our own selves.   When the problems come in this life, we turn to God and follow what HE shows us in the matter at hand.   Thus we are a totally different person from that one who was born in the flesh.  Now we are born in the Spirit.   I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?   We are the church.   Now God gives us HIS Word and we follow HIM.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 18, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   As a new Christian in 1975, my young friend and I began looking for the scripture where it says all men are created equal.   We couldn't find that in the Bible.   So we went to a man who was a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and asked him where this is in the Bible.   He said:  "That statement is not in the Bible."   We were shocked!   (Seems that I have heard this statement all my life.)   💥💥💥   The New Testament Bible is the rule book for the New Testament church.  All scripture is inspired by God and by scripture we can know the will of God for the church as we live on this present earth.   We prove all things by the scriptures and through prayer over these scriptures.   So if you want to know what God says about a subject, look up the scriptures on that subject in the New Testament Bible and compare scripture with scriptures.   For example:   Paul says the following scripture is a "commandment of the Lord".   I Corinthians 7:10-11  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:  But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.   In the New Testament Bible, there is only one grounds for a man to divorce his wife.  Jesus shows us this in the following scripture.   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.   A man in our little church group filed divorce papers against his wife.   When I heard about this, I asked him, "Was your wife unfaithful?"   He said, "No."   I replied:  "The only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife is Matthew 5:32.  The unfaithful wife can be divorced without penalty for the husband who divorces her."   Apparently this man carefully considered what Jesus said in Matthew 5:32 to the men concerning divorcing their wives, because this man withdrew the divorce proceedings from the US court system.   Jesus says:   * If a man divorces a faithful wife and that faithful wife remarries, he will be the cause of the adultery she commits when she remarries.   and   * The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.   If a man is unfaithful, can his wife divorce him?  No.  For I Corinthians 7:10-11 says it is a commandment of the Lord that the wife not leave her husband, "but and if she departs let her remain unmarried or be reconciled with her husband."   You must compare scripture with scripture:   And you must pray and follow the Holy Spirit.   The Holy Spirit will not tell you to do something that is contrary to the New Testament Bible.   Antichrist spirit will try to get us to go in a way opposite to the New Testament Bible so we will be separate from God and follow antichrist.   Antichrist always wants to rule over the church and take us from scripture.   II Thessalonians 2:3-4  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;   4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.   💥💥💥   A woman called me wanting to come talk with me about her mother's second husband.   God said to me:  "Just follow the scriptures.  The circumstances are not important."   💥💥💥   Scriptures concerning divorce and remarriage:   I Corinthians 7:10-11 Matthew 5:32 Mark 10:1-12 Romans 7:2-3 I Corinthians 7:39 I Corinthians 6:15-18  (how we become "one flesh")   💥💥💥 Concerning homosexuals and lesbians:   Romans 1:26-28 Mark 10:6 I Thessalonians 5:1-3   Old Testament: sodomites / homosexuals:   Genesis 13:13 Genesis 19:1-25 2 Peter 2:6-9  (destruction of Sodom an example for New Testament church) I Kings 22:46 I Kings 15:12 II Kings 23:7 I Kings 14:24   Some individuals say they were born homosexual.   When I asked God about this, HE called the following to my attention:   Mark 10:6  But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.   Also we see from Romans 1:26 that God turned them over to "vile affections".  Also in Romans 1:28  "to do that which is not convenient."    💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 17, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   It rained on the earth 40 days and 40 nights and all flesh died except for Noah and those in the ark with him.   After the flood, God dried the land from the waters and brought Noah and all living creatures out of the ark, and God made a covenant with Noah.   Genesis 8   20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.   21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in HIS heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.   22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.   Genesis 9   12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between ME and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:   13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.   (God's bow:  the rainbow)   14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:   15 And I will remember MY covenant, which is between ME and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.   💥💥💥   So the generations of men continued on this earth until this present day.   But we know the day of judgment comes with the second coming of Jesus.   Matthew 24   Jesus says:   29  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:   30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.   (They mourn because they know all that they built on this earth for themselves will be destroyed.)   31 And HE (Jesus) shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.   The elect of God will be taken into heaven where they will meet Jesus and those who are risen from the dead and they will be taken to the new heaven and the new earth, the new Jerusalem, which is created by God for them, wherein dwelleth only righteousness.   💥💥💥   I Thessalonians 4   13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.   14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.   15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep.   16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:   17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.   18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.   💥💥💥   Revelation 21   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.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 16, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   2 Peter 3   1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:   2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:   3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,   4 And saying, Where is the promise of HIS coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.   5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:   6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:   7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.   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.   9 The Lord is not slack concerning HIS promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.   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.   💥💥💥   Genesis 6   5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.   6 And it repented the LORD that HE had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart.   7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them.   8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.   9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.   10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.   11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.   12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth.   (Remember that God looked upon HIS creation at the end of the sixth day and God saw that it was very good ... but man corrupted God's way and polluted the creation, including himself.)   13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before ME; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.   14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.   22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.   💥💥💥   Genesis 7   1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before ME in this generation.   2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.   3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.   4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.   💥💥💥   Genesis 7   12  And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.   17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.   18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.   19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.   20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.   21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:   22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 15, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   There is an Old Testament sabbath and there is a sabbath for the New Testament church.   In the following scripture, the sabbath for the New Testament church is described.   Hebrews 4   1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into HIS rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.   2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.   3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as HE said, As I have sworn in MY wrath, if they shall enter into MY rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.   4 For HE spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all HIS works.   5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into MY rest.   6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:   7 Again, HE limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts.   8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would HE not afterward have spoken of another day.   9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.   10 For he that is entered into HIS rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from HIS.   💥💥💥   Here is an example of the New Testament sabbath:   One day, in 2021, I was bombarded with groupings of negative thoughts:  "What if you get to where you can't walk.  You'll have to go to assisted living.  You're 83.  What if 'this' happens to you?  What if 'that' happens to you?"   I was very disturbed and I cried out to God:  "God help me!"   Instantly the following came into my mind:  "God will supply all your needs."   "That's Right"!  I shouted!  and all the weight lifted and I was once again in a complete rest in God, in peace in God.   This is the New Testament sabbath ... a rest in God and what HE has told you.   💥💥💥   Here is an example of the sabbath in the days of the Old Testament:   Numbers 15   32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.   33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.   34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.   35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.   36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.   Exodus 31   14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among HIS people.   15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.   Jeremiah 17:27   But if ye will not hearken unto ME to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.   (They could not bear a burden on the sabbath. Neither shall we bear burdens, but rather we cast our burdens on the Lord by prayer.)   Isaiah 58:13   If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on MY holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour HIM, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:   (If you want to live by Old Testament sabbath, you can't do any of your own pleasures such as watching TV.  You certainly couldn't "gather manna" on the sabbath.  You would have to buy your groceries on the day before the sabbath and cook your food on the day before the sabbath for you couldn't light any fire in your "tent" on the sabbath.  You could not read secular books nor do secular things nor even speak your own words on the sabbath.  And if you want to live by this law of the Old Testament then you have to live by every Old Testament law!)   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 14, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Man, who is born of the flesh, does the works of the flesh.   The flesh never improves.  By the Holy Spirit we can control the flesh.  But the flesh is always trying to rise up in us and take over.   This is the reason we see so much sin, corruption, violence, and hatred in the acts of humans today.   The flesh is ruling in those persons who do evil works.   Galatians 5   21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,   20 Idolatry, witchcraft (living in superstitions), hatred, variance (arguing), emulations (trying to outdo others), 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.   We who are born again, born of the Spirit of God, have the Spirit of God in us so we can choose those things brought to our attention by the Spirit of God and overcome our own flesh, not doing the works of the flesh but choosing to do those things shown to us by the Spirit.   Galatians 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.   Romans 8:1   There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.   We control our own flesh by refusing to do that which our flesh wants to do and instead we do that which the Holy Spirit shows us to do in the matter at hand.   💥💥💥   Here is an example:   I am 83 at the time of this writing.   One day I was bombarded with thoughts.   "What will you do if this happens to you?  What will you do if that happens?  How will you handle this?"   I cried out to God:  "Help me!"   Immediately this was brought to my mind:  "God will supply all your need."   "That's right!"  I exclaimed!   Instantly I believed that Word, "God will supply all my need", and I was at peace and was joyful over that Word.   (When we believe God and rest in HIS Word, we enter into HIS rest and live in the New Testament sabbath, ceasing from our own works.)   If I had reacted by the flesh, I would have been trying to make plans for "what if".   But to walk in the way of the Spirit is to walk appropriately to the word I heard from the Spirit:   "God will supply all your needs."   So do nothing, unless you hear there is something to do, knowing that God will deal with each problem, often even supplying that need before there is a need.   So we live in a state of rest in God (our sabbath) and peace because we believe that word brought to us by the Spirit.   And when we go in the way shown us by the Spirit, we will bear the fruits of the Spirit automatically by that way which we are going.   Galatians 5:22-23   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:   💥💥💥   In the New Testament church, we are given the Holy Spirit at the time we are born again by God.   Ephesians 1   1 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, WHO hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (The Word):   4 According as HE hath chosen us in HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before HIM in love:   5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ (The Word) to HIMSELF, according to the good pleasure of HIS will,   6 To the praise of the glory of HIS grace, wherein HE hath made us accepted in the beloved.   7 In WHOM we have redemption through HIS blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of HIS grace;   8 Wherein HE hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;   9 Having made known unto us the mystery of HIS will, according to HIS good pleasure which HE hath purposed in HIMSELF:   10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times HE might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in HIM:   11 In WHOM also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of HIM who worketh all things after the counsel of HIS own will:   12 That we should be to the praise of HIS glory, who first trusted in Christ.   13 In WHOM ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in WHOM also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,   14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of HIS glory.   💥💥💥   So of the natural man, the man who is born only of the flesh and is not of the Spirit of God, we read.   Genesis 6   5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.   11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.   12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth.   💥💥💥   The apostle Peter says:   2 Peter 3   10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,   12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?   13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.   (God said to me:  "You will never make this present earth righteous, no matter what you do.")   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.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 13, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Jesus is telling us in Luke 17, that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of Jesus when HE raises the dead in Christ and sends HIS angels to gather the elect of God from off this earth.   What were the masses of people like in the days of Noah?   As the people were in Noah's time, so shall they be in the end of this present world.   Genesis 6   5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.   6 And it repented the LORD that HE had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart.   7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them.   11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.   12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth.   💥💥💥   Jesus said:   Luke 17   26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.   27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.   28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;   29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.   30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.   💥💥💥   Genesis 13:13   But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.   In the days of Lot, homosexuals lived in "every quarter" of the city of Sodom and they came out to have sex with the 2 men who visited in the home of Lot.   In the Old Testament, homosexuals were called "Sodomites."   Genesis 19   4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:   5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.   (know them:  have sex with them)   6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,   7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.   (Lot knew this was wickedness for Lot was a righteous man.)   2 Peter 2   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:   In the New Testament, homosexuals and lesbians are cited as follows:   Romans 1   26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:   27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.   28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;   💥💥💥   At the end of this present world, God will destroy the heavens and the earth with fire.   2 Peter 3   10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,   12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?   13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.   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.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 12, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Abraham had 2 sons.  But God calls "Isaac" Abraham's only son.   Genesis 22:1-2   And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.   2 And HE (God) said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.   The child of the flesh, by the will of man, Ishmael was not recognized by God.   Isaac was the child of the promise made by God to Abraham.   💥💥💥   Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve, gave an offering to God.  God recognized Abel's offering.   We see the line of the children of God going through Abel, the second born, and Cain was cast away from God.   Hebrews 11:4  By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.   💥💥💥   I was reading in Genesis, and noticed a "lineage" of the people who were children of the promise running from generation to generation.   Cain killed his brother Abel, but God gave Adam and Eve another son named Seth.   Genesis 4:25  And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.   Seth is named in the lineage of the generations of Adam, but Cain is not named.   💥💥💥   Genesis 5   1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made HE him;   2 Male and female created HE them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.   3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:   4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:   (It caught my attention that after Seth, Adam begat "sons and daughters", but only Seth was named as the son of Adam.)   5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.   6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:   7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:   (But in Seth's sons and daughters, only Enos was named.)   8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.   9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:   10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:   11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.   12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:   13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:   14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.   15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:   16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:   17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.   18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:   19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:   20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.   21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:   22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:   23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:   24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.   25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:   26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:   27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.   28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:   29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.   30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:   31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.   32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.   (The 3 named sons of Noah were all saved from the flood in the ark built by Noah.)   💥💥💥   I believe God called my attention to the above and I believe God was showing a lineage of the elect of God by naming the names in this list of generations of Adam.   Also I am reminded that God destroyed the masses of people who lived on this earth in the days of Noah.     These people descended from Adam for there was no other person to come from.   And we read the following concerning the people who lived during of the time of Noah:   Genesis 6   5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.   6 And it repented the LORD that HE had made man on the earth, and it grieved HIM at HIS heart.   7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth ME that I have made them.   8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 11, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   The elect of God are the children of "the promise".   We are chosen by God and HE reveals Himself to us and changes us from that person we once were.   Paul says:   II 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.   💥💥💥   Paul speaks of the elect of God in the following scripture:   Romans 9   6 For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:   7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.   8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.   9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.   10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;   11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of HIM that calleth;)   12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.   13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.   Even before the children were born, Jacob was chosen by God and made to be "the elect of God" but God says, HE hated Esau, Jacob's brother.   (Many church goers try to explain away these things concerning the elect of God.)   But look at the following scripture:   Matthew 24:31  And HE (Jesus) shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.   In the last days, it is "the elect of God" that Jesus gathers to Himself.   There is a difference between church goers and the elect of God.   The elect of God are born again by the will of God and are given the Holy Spirit of God.   Romans 9   16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.   17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew MY power in thee, and that MY name might be declared throughout all the earth.   18 Therefore hath HE mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom HE will HE hardeneth.   💥💥💥   Jesus said:   Matthew 16   13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, HE asked HIS disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?   14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.   15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?   16 And Simon Peter answered and said, THOU art the Christ, the Son of the living God.   17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but MY Father which is in heaven.   18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock (of that Word revealed by God) I will build MY church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.   The elect of God are taught by God and they are blessed because God revealed HIMSELF and truth to them.   The ROCK upon which the church is built is that Word which God gives to each person who has the Holy Spirit of God.   💥💥💥   John 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.   I Corinthians 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.   Unless you are born again, you cannot "see" things of God.   💥💥💥   Genesis 4   1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.   2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.   (Abel is the elect of God.)   3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.   4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:   (Able is God's elect.)   5 But unto Cain and to his offering HE (God) had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.   6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?   7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.    And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.   💥💥💥 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.   9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?   (But God is not deceived by Cain.)   10 And HE (God) said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto ME from the ground.   11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;   (Sin carries penalties.)   12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.   13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.   14 Behold, THOU hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from THY face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.   15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.   And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.   16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 10, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   Genesis 3   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.   7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.   8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.   (Now they knew sin.  And they no longer wanted to be around anyone who might see their sin.)   9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?   10 And he said, I heard THY voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.   11 And HE (God) said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?   12 And the man said, The woman whom THOU gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.   13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.   Penalties come because of sin:   14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:   15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.   16 Unto the woman HE said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.   17 And unto Adam HE said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;   18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;   19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.   💥💥💥   We can't hide from God.   Hebrews 4   12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.   13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in HIS sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of HIM with whom we have to do.   💥💥💥   When we are in peace and joy, we know we are at rest in God.   When we are troubled and grieved, we need to be restored by God to a state of peace and joy.   David prayed:   Psalms 51   10   Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.   11 Cast me not away from THY presence; and take not THY Holy Spirit from me.   12 Restore unto me the joy of THY salvation; and uphold me with THY free spirit.   💥💥💥   The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth.   The Holy Spirit unravels situations and guides us into all truth and teaches us all things.   John 14:26   (Jesus says)  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.   John 16:13   Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God) , that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.   💥💥💥   Psalm 139   3 THOU compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.   4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, THOU knowest it altogether.   5 THOU hast beset me behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me.   6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.   7 Whither shall I go from THY spirit? or whither shall I flee from THY presence?   8 If I ascend up into heaven, THOU art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, THOU art there.   9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;   10 Even there shall THY hand lead me, and THY right hand shall hold me.   11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.   12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from THEE; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to THEE.   13 For THOU hast possessed my reins: THOU hast covered me in my mother's womb.   14 I will praise THEE; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are THY works; and that my soul knoweth right well.   15 My substance was not hid from THEE, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.   16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in THY book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.   17 How precious also are THY thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!   18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with THEE.   💥💥💥 1 John 1   5 This then is the message which we have heard of HIM, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in HIM is no darkness at all.   6 If we say that we have fellowship with HIM, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:   7 But if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ HIS Son cleanseth us from all sin.   8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.   9 If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.   10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make HIM a liar, and HIS word is not in us.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog

(This podcast was previously published on August 9, 2021)   Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...   The serpent came to Eve and presented a very twisted statement.   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 that which God said.  God did not say, "Neither shall ye touch it.")   The following is what God commanded to Adam:   Genesis 2   15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.   16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:   17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.   When a person adds to the Word of God, he weakens that Word of God.  Because that person who does this knows he added something and therefore it becomes difficult for that person to believe the actual Word from God because he knows only part of what he said is actually the Word from God.   We must be very careful in handling the Word of God.   If we have the Word of God in writing, we must return to that which God said and be certain of that which God actually said, and we must look at the Word many times.   💥💥💥    Genesis 3   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.   (People want to be "as gods", being wise in their own eyes.)   Those who are really godly know they can do nothing of themselves, as Jesus said of Himself in John 5:30.   Jesus said:  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear (from God), I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent ME.   💥💥💥   Genesis 3   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.   💥💥💥   Proverbs 3   5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.   6 In all thy ways acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy paths.   7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.   💥💥💥   The apostle Paul describes antichrist as follows:   II Thessalonians 2:4   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.   This is what they were teaching us at Word of Faith when I attended this church.  (1977-1982)   We were being taught to be "as god" ... looking for scripture to justify what we wanted and claiming that scripture daily until we got that which we wanted.  We were even being taught that we could take "authority" over the devil and stop things such as hail from damaging our house.  And we were supposed to be able to stop the devil from bringing illness to us and to those in our family by taking "authority" as believers over the devil.   Many people want to be as gods, controlling everything as God does.   This is not trusting in God or turning in prayer to God but rather trying to be god.   And we were never told to seek the will of God at Word of Faith church.  We were supposed to know the will of God and look for scripture, basically to justify that which we desired for ourselves.   This is exactly how Paul described antichrist in II Thessalonians 2:4.   (Word of Faith is not the only antichrist church but just one of many churches of the apostasy.  For many churches fall away from portions of scripture and set up doctrines opposite from those doctrines of the Holy Bible.)   💥💥💥   John 5   (Jesus says)   39 (Ye) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of ME.   40 And ye will not come to ME, that ye might have life.   💥💥💥 The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth.   The Holy Spirit who is in us will unravel the lies and set our doctrines straight again.   There is much deception in today's church, in the teachings and doctrines.   II Timothy 3   14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of WHOM thou hast learned them;   (God teaches us by HIS Spirit.)   15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.   16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:   17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog