Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  God judges.  And God's judgments are just and right.   Revelation 14   7 ... Fear God, and give glory to HIM; for the hour of HIS judgment is come: and worship HIM that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.   15-16  And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.  And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.   17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.   18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.   19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.   20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.   Revelation 15   1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.   2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.   3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, THOU King of saints.   4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? for THOU only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before THEE; for Thy judgments are made manifest.   5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:   6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.   7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.   8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from HIS power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.   💥💥💥   Revelation 16:4-7   4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.   5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, THOU art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because THOU hast judged thus.   6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and THOU hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.   7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are THY judgments.   💥💥💥   Revelation 19   1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:   2 For true and righteous are HIS judgments: for HE hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of HIS servants at her hand.   3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.   4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.   5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye HIS servants, and ye that fear HIM, both small and great.   6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.   15 And out of HIS mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it HE should smite the nations: and HE shall rule them with a rod of iron: and HE treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.   16 And HE hath on HIS vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.   Revelation 20   11 And I saw a great white throne, and HIM that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.   12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.   13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.   14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.   15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.   Revelation 22   1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.   2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.   3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and HIS servants shall serve HIM:   14 Blessed are they that do HIS commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.   15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.   Revelation 4   10 The four and twenty elders fall down before HIM that sat on the throne, and worship HIM that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,   11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for THOU hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.   Revelation 5  (Book of the judgments of God)   1 And I saw in the right hand of HIM that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.   2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?   3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.   4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.   5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.   8 And when HE had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.   9 And they sung a new song, saying, THOU art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for THOU wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;   10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.   11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;   12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.   13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto HIM that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.   14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped HIM that liveth for ever and ever.   💥💥💥   HE is worthy to judge and HE judges with righteous judgment.   When I encounter a person who rejects the Word of God I am greatly comforted by the understanding that God will judge him and I do not have to judge him.   💥💥💥   However we must judge the church in order to do what the apostle Paul said as follows:   I Corinthians 5:11-13  But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.   12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?   (We do not judge those without the church but we must judge those within the church.)   13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.   💥💥💥   2 Corinthians 5:9-11   9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of HIM.   10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.   11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

19m

Mar 27

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Hebrews 3   1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;   2 Who was faithful to HIM that appointed HIM, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.   3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.   4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.   5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;   6 But Christ as a son over HIS own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.   7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear HIS voice,   8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:   9 When your fathers tempted ME, proved ME, and saw MY works forty years.   10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known MY ways.   11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into MY rest.)   12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.   13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.   14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;   15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.   16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.   17 But with whom was HE grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?   18 And to whom sware HE that they should not enter into HIS rest, but to them that believed not?   19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.     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.   11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.   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.   14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

11m

Mar 26

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Here is a message from God concerning dealing in Wisdom in the iniquity of the end times.   I Corinthians 6  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind,  10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers (those who speak vile thing), nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.   💥💥💥   Jesus says:   Mt. 24:12-13  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many (for the Word of God) shall wax cold.   13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.   Iniquity "shall abound".   Today we are seeing this iniquity of the last days abound.  Men in high places speak things that are untrue and are praised for what they speak by many people.  We are seeing incredible things that would not have been tolerated in times past, even a few years ago the general population would have been horrified to see such things.   This shows us the great increase in the iniquity of today and the lack of integrity in the hearts of many.   It simply show us how close we are to the return of Jesus and the wrath of God that comes in the end of this world.   We must not be swept away by all the evil.  We must not be pulled down by the evil.  We must continue in the joy of the Lord, in the joy of the Word.   💥💥💥   In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh, a prominent lawyer from South Carolina, was tried in a court of law accused of murdering his wife and 22 year old son.   I watched some of the trial on CNN.   I was very surprised at my reaction.   I felt great grief over the waste of all the lives.  What could have been a godly family was obviously an ungodly family.    In earlier times, I would have been outraged over this and would have felt great wrath, wanting to see judgment against Murdaugh.   But as I watched him at court, all I could feel was sorrow over lost lives, not just the murders but the lost life of Murdaugh himself.  He admitted that he lied to his own law clients and stole large sums of money from victims he represented in court, millions of dollars.  He continue to say he did not kill his wife and son.  Nonetheless his family was destroyed.   It gave me no pleasure to witness his fall.   And this surprised me.  God has greatly changed my own heart during the past years.   💥💥💥   Luke 9   54 And when HIS disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?   55 But HE (Jesus) turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.   56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.   I know I once lived in righteous indignation and wanted to see the wicked destroyed.  Now I want them to see their sins and be saved and live godly lives in the word of God.   💥💥💥   Romans 12   19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is MINE; I will repay, saith the Lord.   20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.   21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.   Don't we know that we could have been destroyed over our pass life?  Instead God caused us to be born again and saved and our sins were washed away and we were forgiven all sins because Jesus paid for our sin with HIS own blood.   We overcome evil this way.   Jesus tells us the days will get so bad toward the end of this world that no flesh would be saved unless the days are shortened ... Matthew 24:21-22  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 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.   We might have righteous indignation over that which we see done by evil men in this world and in the apostate churches, but we must not allow our anger over their deeds to destroy us or cause us to fall away from scriptures and our faith in God.   We must not become depressed or allow evil to steal our joy in the Word of God.   God will judge and HIS judgment will be just.  Live in this knowledge and live in peace and endure to the end by prayer and the word, knowing our days on this earth will be shortened as Jesus said in Matthew 24:22.   But we must not let the evil destroy us!   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:   💥💥💥   💥  We are not a friend of this world:  (friend: one who gives aid and support)  We never approve sin.  We never wish them well in their sin.  We show sinners the Bible and hope that God will open their eyes to see their sin and to turn from their sin and be saved as we have been saved!  But we never approve them in the sin.   James 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.   💥💥💥   💥  Hatred, variance (debating), wrath, and strife could destroy us in our righteous indignation.  We must not live in these fleshly angers as we witness the sins of this world and the apostate churches.   Galatians 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,  20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,  21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.   We keep our own flesh under control by asking God to help us as we witness those things that are evil and by following the Spirit which produces the fruits of the spirit even as we deal with the evil.   22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:   We learn to pray:  "God help me and please don't let me say that or do that."  (for our own flesh will try to get us to say and do things that are evil against the evil,)   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.   If we walk after the ideas of our own flesh we can be condemned in our acts.   If we follow the Spirit, that which HE shows us to do in the situation will produce the fruits of the Spirit:   love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:   💥💥💥   We overcome the evil with the good God shows us by HIS Spirit, doing as God shows us to do, saying that which God shows us to say, by HIS Spirit Who dwells in us.   For HE, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind what we are to say and what we are to do in the time of trouble.  (Jn. 14:26 & Jn. 16:13)   Example:  The radio station manager in 1982 in Seattle was waiting outside the meeting room and as I approached the door, he said to me:  "Joan ... you have many wonderful messages.  Just speak those messages.  If you continue to speak these judgment messages, I don't know what is going to happen to you.  We might have to put you off the air."   The Holy Spirit gave me this response instantly:  "George ... if I don't speak the message that I believe to be from God, then I don't have a message and I may as well be off the air."   💥💥💥 Depart from the evil but do not allow yourself to be destroyed by righteous indignation and fury and wrath and hatred and strife.   Commit yourself to God in prayer and ask HIM to help you.   Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.   💥💥💥   II Corinthians 6   14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?   15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?   16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.   17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you,   18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.   💥💥💥   Be not partaker of other men's sins.     💥💥💥💥💥   Now ... Proverbs 7   1 My son, keep MY words, and lay up MY commandments with thee.   2 Keep MY commandments, and live; and MY law as the apple of thine eye.   3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.   💥💥💥   4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:   5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.   💥💥💥   6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,   7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,   8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,   9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:   10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.   11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:   12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)   13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,   14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.   15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.   16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.   17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.   18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.   19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:   20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.   21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.   22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;   23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.   💥💥💥   24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.   25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.   26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.   27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.   💥💥💥   It will get much worse in the days ahead on this earth.   No wonder Jesus said:  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.  (Mt. 24:21-22)   We must learn to operate in God's wisdom, obeying the Holy Scriptures.   Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.   Please keep this writing and all these concepts and scriptures before you and meditate on these things and be sure you are making proper adjustments to your life.   Proverbs 8 will be presented on March 28 to give you time to adjust to and do the scriptures in this writing.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

35m

Mar 25

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  No man knows the day or hour Jesus will return but we do know seasons.   As the wickedness increases by people of this world and as the churches cast aside scripture, we know the end is soon.   We are made "wise" unto salvation by the Holy Scripture, the Word of God.   2 Timothy 3:16-17  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.   💥💥💥   Jesus is The Word and The Word is Jesus.   If we cast aside The Word, we cast aside Jesus.   John 1   1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.   2 The same was in the beginning with God.   3 All things were made by HIM; and without HIM was not any thing made that was made.   4 In HIM was life; and the life was the light of men.   5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.   10 HE was in the world, and the world was made by HIM, and the world knew HIM not.   11 HE came unto HIS own, and HIS own received HIM not.   12 But as many as received HIM, to them gave HE power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on HIS name:   13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.   14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld HIS glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.   Perverted:  To turn from the way of God and go another way.   To turn from Jesus the Word, to gain perceived rewards on this earth is death to you and all who are around you. 💥💥💥   The Old Testament contains "The Law of Moses" which the people went by until the birth of Jesus.   With the resurrection of Jesus came the new covenant and the New Testament which replaced the Law of Moses.  However there are many promises of God in the Old Testament which still pertain to us today.   But it is the sacrifice of Jesus which paid for our sins today by HIS shed blood.  So we no longer sacrifice animals for sins as they did in the Old Testament.   Hebrews 8   6 But now hath HE obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also HE (JESUS) is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.   7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.   8 For finding fault with them, HE saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:   9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in MY covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.   10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put MY laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:   11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know ME, from the least to the greatest.   12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.   13 In that he saith, A new covenant, HE hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.   💥💥💥   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.   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.   💥💥💥   Now in the New Testament church we follow the laws of God set forth in the New Testament scriptures.   The New Testament Bible is our only doctrine.  We follow that which is in the New Testament Bible.  The doctrines of Christ are in the New Testament Bible.  We have no other doctrine for today's churches!   The apostate churches remove some of the scriptures of the New Testament Bible and teach other doctrines to their followers.  They will be destroyed when Jesus returns.   2 Thessalonians 2   3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day  (of the Lord)  shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;   4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.   In 1982, God said to me:  "The falling away are not people leaving the churches.  The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures".   8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:   9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,   10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.   11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:   12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

18m

Mar 24

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Isaiah 1   28  And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.   💥💥💥   The churches of the apostasy of today have cast aside scripture, "The Lord", and have set up doctrines to their own destructions.   They made the truth a lie and caused their congregations to believe in a lie.   For example:  (Concerning divorce and remarriage)   Jesus said:   Matthew 5:32   But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.   Mark 10:11-12  And HE (Jesus) saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.  12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.   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.   In these churches of the antichrist today, they removed truth and set up lies.  And the people love it for they can do what they want to do and think themselves to be approved by God.  In the end time, the plagues of God will fall and they will end up destroyed by God in HIS wrath.   💥💥💥   Isaiah 2:8  Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:   💥💥💥   Isaiah 2:10-12   Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of HIS majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:   💥💥💥   Isaiah 2:19-21  And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of HIS majesty, when HE ariseth to shake terribly the earth.   20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;   21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of HIS majesty, when HE ariseth to shake terribly the earth.   💥💥💥   Isaiah 2:22  Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?   💥💥💥   Isaiah 3:9  The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.   (They flaunt their sins before all and are even proud of their sins, thinking, "No harm can come to us.  We are free to do what we want.  No one can stop us now.")   💥💥💥   2 Timothy 3:1-5  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.   (Attending church but casting aside scripture)   💥💥💥   Isaiah 5:4-6  God says:  What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?   5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:   6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.   💥💥💥   Jesus will destroy the apostate churches when HE returns to gather the elect of God who are righteous.   2 Thessalonians 2:8-12  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming:   9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,   10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.   11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:   12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 💥💥💥   Isaiah 5:16  But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.   💥💥💥   Isaiah 5:20  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!   21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!   💥💥💥   Isaiah 5:24  ... because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

23m

Mar 23

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Jesus says:   Luke 17   And as it was in the days of Noe (Noah), so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.   27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.    Genesis 6  (The days of Noah)   1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,   2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.   3 And the LORD said, MY spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.   4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.   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.   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.   15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.   (God gives exact instructions whereby Noah and his family will be safe.)   16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.   17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.   18 But with thee will I establish MY covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.   19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.   20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.   21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.   22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.   💥💥💥 Luke 17  (Jesus said)   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.   31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.   32 Remember Lot's wife.  (She looked back upon Sodom and was turned into a pillar of salt.  Gen. 19)   33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.   Story of Lot   Genesis 19   1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;   (Angels do not have wings.  Angels look like natural men.)   2 And he (Lot) said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.   3 And he (Lot) pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.   4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:   (They came from every part of Sodom.)   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.  (have sex with them)   6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,   7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.   (Lot knew homosexual acts were wicked.)   8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.   9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.   10 But the men (the 2 angels) put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.   11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.   (Angels have great powers and strength.)   12 And the men (the angels) said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:   13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.   14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.   15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.   16 And while he lingered, the men (the angels) laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.   17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he (the angel) said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.   18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:   19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:   20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.   21 And he (the angel) said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.   22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.   23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.   24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;   25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.   26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.   27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:   28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.   29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when HE overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. 💥💥💥💥💥   Proverbs 6   1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,   (surety: surety is the guarantee of the debts of one party by another; surety is taking the responsibility for paying the debt in case the other person defaults.)   2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.   3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.   4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.   5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.   💥💥💥   6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:   7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,   8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.   💥💥💥   9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?   10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:   11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.   💥💥💥 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.   (froward: stubbornly unruly)   13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;   14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.   15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.   💥💥💥   16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto HIM:   17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,   18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,   19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.   💥💥💥   20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:   21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.   22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.   23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:   24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.   25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.   26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.   27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?   28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?   29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.   30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;   31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.   32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.   33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.   34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.   35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.   💥💥💥💥💥   It will get much worse in the days ahead on this earth.   No wonder Jesus said:  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.  (Mt. 24:21-22)   We must learn to operate in God's wisdom, obeying the Holy Scriptures.   Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.   Please keep this writing and all these concepts and scriptures before you and meditate on these things and be sure you are making proper adjustments to your life.   Proverbs 7 will be presented on March 25, 2023, to give you time to adjust to and do the scriptures in this writing.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

13m

Mar 22

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Living in truth of the word from God.   Jesus says:   John 10   9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.   10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.   24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.   25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.   26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.   27 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 man pluck them out of my hand.   💥💥💥   John 14  (Jesus said)   6 I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.   Jesus, The Word, is the way of life.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

8m

Mar 21

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  What do we see now?  One trouble upon another?   Jesus calls this:  All these are the beginning of sorrows.  (Mt. 24:8)  This comes before the Great Tribulation where the wrath of God is poured out upon this entire world because of the sins of the people of this world and the sins of the apostate churches which have cast away scripture in part to allow people in their congregations to go in the way of sin in their churches.   Judgments sent by God before the Great Tribulation.   Matthew 24:7 (For Jesus says:)   For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places   2 Timothy 3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.   💥💥💥   Time in the sight of God is like this:   2 Peter 3:8  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.   To God, "the last days" began with the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.   The apostle John said:   1 John 1:18  Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.   From then to the return of Jesus the wickedness of men would get worse and worse until the end of time and the return of Jesus and the wrath of God comes upon this world and finally God destroys this present heaven and earth with fire.   2 Peter 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   💥💥💥   By our view of time it has been more than 2,000 years since Jesus was crucified and God raised HIM from the dead.   By God's view of time (a day as a thousand years), God might view this as 2 days. Also God can see 1,000 years as one day.   So when we look at the events and consider the period of "The beginning of sorrows", I would think we should include both World War I and World War II, for these were both "world wars" affecting the entire world.   Hitler looks very much like the description of one of the last kings in Daniel 11.   Daniel 11   3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.   4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.   One ruler is described as follows:   21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.   22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.   23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.   24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.   Hitler came speaking peace while he was planning for his war.  He occupied nation after nation saying he was protecting them.  He did greater evils than ever seen before in the killing of Jews and political hostages.  For a time he ruled and then was broken and destroyed himself.   25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.   From the time I was born again, I have thought Adolph Hitler was a part of the end time destruction of the "Beginning of Sorrows".   Churches have taught that antichrist comes through governments of men but that is not what the Bible teaches us.  The apostle John taught us that antichrist were already in their church group and there were "many" antichrists.  (I John 2:18)  This shows that antichrist is a spirit working in many men as the devil is a spirit working in many.   I John 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.   The end time apostasy in the church groups casts away certain scripture and sets up doctrines which approve sin in the congregation, especially in areas of divorce/remarriage and homosexual/lesbians.   Divorce/remarriage:   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.   * If the woman is unfaithful, the husband may divorce her.  But this is the only scriptural reason given in the New Testament Bible for a husband to divorce his wife. * If the divorced woman remarries she will commit adultery. * The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.   Homosexuals/lesbians:   Romans 1:26-28  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:   27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.   28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;   Fornication:   I Corinthians 6:15-16  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.   18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.   The apostate churches cast aside doctrines of Christ from the Bible and set up their own doctrines which approve and permit various sins in their church groups.   💥💥💥   The beginning of sorrows:   I believe the following are parts of this:   💥  Wars:  WWI and WWII covering most of the earth.  (Now Russia wars again Ukrine.)   💥  Famines:  Throughout Africa and South American nations   💥  Pestilences: Spanish Flu of WWI;  Coronavirus covering the earth in 2020   💥  Earthquakes:  The great earthquake of 2023 in Turkey and Syria killing 50,000 people an unheard of number.   I believe other "trumpets" which signal the coming of Jesus and the Wrath of God and the end of this world:   * The unusual waves of storms, one after another, in California today. * Unseasonal tornadoes in southern USA in 2023. * Fierceness of men all over this world:  killing at random children in schools and people in other places.   Also God gave me a dream concerning people and nations failing to pay debts:   This was a recent dream this year in the last few months:   January 12, 2023   In this dream, there was a big financial deficit.  God showed me some people were failing to pay what they owed.  When the deficit grew worse, the government and organizations took from the people one way or another:  taxes, significant raise in prices of goods, and such.   I never think of money, having no debt of any kind and having some savings.  But I awoke thinking of money and seeking wisdom, what to do?   In March, the banking failures began to surface.   If individuals paid what they owe everything would work out but in the dream I was shown that individuals will not pay what they owe.   And USA national debt is in billions of dollars.     💥💥💥   As we prepare for that which is to come upon this earth, I felt very strongly we should go through the Proverbs, setting a basis for seeking wisdom from God and correcting our own way by wisdom from God.   For things we have never before seen will happen and we need to call on God for our wisdom.   James 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

16m

Mar 20

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...    During the end times, people will do terrible things and evil men will wax worse and worse, the apostle Paul tells us.   2 Timothy 3   1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.   2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,   3 Without natural affection (homosexuals & lesbians: Romans 1:26-28  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; also we see the unnatural act of women having abortions, killing their unborn children);   trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,   fierce (killing others without cause),    despisers of those that are good,   4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;   5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.   (Some attend church but they will not do scriptures.  Turn away from them and don't keep company with them when you see this happening.)   6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,   7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.   (For they hear the scriptures but they will not follow the instruction of the Bible, conforming their lives to the word of God and they go in their own preferences doing as they choose.)   8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.   9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.   10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,   11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.   12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.   13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.   14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;  (God taught us HIS way by HIS Word.)   15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus (the Word of God).   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.  💥💥💥💥💥   Proverbs 5   1 My son, attend unto MY wisdom, and bow thine ear to MY understanding:   2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.   💥💥💥 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:   4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.   5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.   6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.   💥💥💥 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.   8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:   9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:   10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;   11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,   12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;   13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!   💥💥💥   14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.   15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.   16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.   17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.   18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.   19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.   20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?   21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and HE pondereth all his goings.   22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.   23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.   💥💥💥💥💥   It will get much worse in the days ahead on this earth.   No wonder Jesus said:  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.  (Mt. 24:21-22)   We must learn to operate in God's wisdom, obeying the Holy Scriptures.   Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.   Please keep this writing and all these concepts and scriptures before you and meditate on these things and be sure you are making proper adjustments to your life.   Proverbs 6 will be presented on March 22, 2023, to give you time to adjust to and do the scriptures in this writing.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

11m

Mar 19

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Romans 12:2    And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.   2 Corinthians 10:5   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;   💥💥💥   Building your house on the word from God:   Philippians 2:7  (Jesus)   made Himself of no reputation,   John 18:36  Jesus said:  My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.   Ephesians 4:19  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.   💥💥💥   The sayings of this world will go into your heart and bear fruit unless you take every thought captive to bring it into obedience of the Word.   For example:   Men say:  "The only thing sure are death and taxes."   But the apostle Paul says:  "We will not all die."  (I Cor. 15:51)   Men tell you how much you should exercise and what exercise will do for you.   But the apostle Paul says:  Bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.  (I Tim. 4:8)   Some churches teach a doctrine of once saved always saved.   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.   (Revelation 3:5)   The people of the world and the apostate churches speak many things not of the Bible.   We build our house on that which we read in the Bible.  And when something opposite to Bible comes, we reestablish our thinking by Bible.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

8m

Mar 18

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Proverbs 4   14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil.   15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.   💥💥💥   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.   💥💥💥   Comments by Joan Boney:   Scriptures have the power to change us and cause us to go another way in this life.  As I have personally worked through the Proverbs, I have been greatly affected for the better.   💥💥💥     💥   Proverbs 1:4  To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.   Proverbs 1:22  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?   Proverbs 3:34  Surely HE scorneth the scorners: but HE giveth grace unto the lowly.   I looked up the meaning of "scorner" in the dictionary and found this:   (scorner:  a person who expresses contempt or disdain for someone or something; open dislike and disrespect or mockery often mixed with indignation;)   It is often very helpful to look up key words of a scripture in a dictionary.   After studying the words "scorner" and "scorn", I stopped watching the TV show "All in the Family."  I removed this from my TV recordings.   The TV character, Archie Bunker, is a primary example of a scorner.   There is no way I want to "delight" in scorners.  There is no way I want to be around scorners.  After I saw the definition of scorn, I took action to remove myself from scorners.   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.   💥💥💥   💥  March 2023:  A major bank failed in California.  Instant fear came upon me.   Immediately the Holy Spirit reminded me of the following scripture:   Proverbs 3:25-26  Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.  For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.   I did pray, asking God if there was anything I should do about the money I have in a bank.  I haven't heard to do anything.     The Holy Spirit reminds us of scripture to help us in times like this or the Holy Spirit might give us a word of instruction.  The Holy Spirit is the comforter and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth.   John 14:26  (Jesus says)  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.   💥💥💥   💥  Proverbs 4:14-15  Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.   There is a Catholic woman in our neighborhood who is most likely a lesbian.  I sent the following scriptures to her at one point in time.   Romans 1:22-28  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,   23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.   24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:   25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.   26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:   27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.   28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;   When I started to send another warning, I was reminded by the Holy Spirit of this scripture:     Proverb 4:14-15  Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.   So I did not send the second warning.   Titus 3:10-11  A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.   (heretick:  one who propagates his private opinions in opposition to Bible doctrine; one who clings to his own thinking even when it is opposite to scriptures; a dissenter, turned away from scripture.)   💥💥💥   💥 At the end of March, 2023, the "OSCARS" were presented on television.  I knew I did not want to hear the sound because of the evil the people often say when they try to be clever, so I turned the presentation on with no sound.   The next day, I was unusually tired and "sluggish".  I think I felt drained and I attributed the problem to watching the Oscars.     I did not find anything profitable to me that I know of.   So I decided not to watch this program in the future.   Amos 5:15  Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate:   💥💥💥   Psalm 119:105  THY word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.   Psalm 119:130  The entrance of THY words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.   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 https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

21m

Mar 17

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  The prophet Amos told us what the end time would be like:   Amos 5   14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.   15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.   16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.   17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.   18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.   19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.   20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?   💥💥💥   Remember in 2020 when Coronavirus covered the entire earth and how tired we became being shut up in our own houses?    The end times will be one problem after another.   Many will fall away from God.  (Mt. 24:12)   Matthew 24:21-22  (Jesus says)  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.   This will be a time unlike any time that has come before.  The evil of man will be very great.   Clinging to God and walking in God's wisdom will be our goal.   The book of Proverbs alerts us to the wisdom of God.   💥💥💥💥💥    Proverbs 4   (Living uncompromising lives with integrity, in peace)    1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.   2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.   (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.)   The little foxes spoil the vine. (Song of Solomon 2:15)  The little sins lead us to destruction so we must not yield to those small things which eat away at the Word of God, for integrity is eaten away in small bites.   When we brush against the sayings of man, which are not the sayings of God, I often pray:     Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.   And God restores my soul. 💥💥💥💥💥   3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.   4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.   5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of MY mouth.   6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.   7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.   (James 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.)   Read the Bible for it is the way of wisdom.  Go in the way of scriptures.  Live by scriptures.  Make the scriptures a part of your life by doing them and continuing in them in spite of the situation.   💥💥💥 8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.   9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.   10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.   11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.   12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.   💥💥💥   13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.   14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil.   15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.   (Be sure to do this!)   16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.   17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.   💥💥💥   18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.   19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.   (Wicked according to Bible:   I Cor. 6:9-10  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers (those who speak in a vile way, abusing others with their speaking), nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.)   💥💥💥    20 My son, attend to MY words; incline thine ear unto MY sayings.   (attend to: pay attention to; focus carefully on until you automatically do the instructions)   21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.   22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.   23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.   (Building your house on the word of God.)   💥💥💥   24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.   (froward:  stubbornly unruly)   (perverse lips: willfully turned away from instruction from God to follow another way)   25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.   26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.   27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.   💥💥💥💥💥   It will get much worse in the days ahead on this earth.   No wonder Jesus said:  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.  (Mt. 24:21-22)   We must learn to operate in God's wisdom, obeying the Holy Scriptures.   Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.   Please keep this writing and all these concepts and scriptures before you and meditate on these things and be sure you are making proper adjustments to your life.   Proverbs 5 will be presented on March 19, 2023, to give you time to adjust to and do the scriptures in this writing.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

28m

Mar 16

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  The day of the Lord is coming.   The prophet Amos describes it as follows:   Amos 5   18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.   19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.   (One problem after another.)   20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?   💥💥💥   Revelation 9   20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:   21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.   💥💥💥   The prophet Amos says:   Amos 5    4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:    16-17  Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.    17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.    Joel 2:1-2   1  Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;   2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.    💥💥💥    God brings HIS judgment because of the wickedness of this world and the wickedness of the apostate church who discard certain scriptures and approve sinners in the congregation.    We know it is coming.   Matthew 24  Jesus says:   31 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:   33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.   We see:   * fierceness of man increases causing perilous times  (2 Tim. 3:1-5) * people without natural affections  (homosexual/lesbians/abortion where mothers kill their own children without the natural affection given to mothers)   A mother bear will protect her cubs!  But in the end time mother's kill their unborn children.   As these sins increase, they are like the leaves on the tree showing us the wrath of God comes soon because of the sins of this world and the sins of the apostate churches where they discard scriptures and go in the way of this world.   2 Tim. 3:1-5   1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.   2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,   3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,   4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;   5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.   (Some go to church, but they won't do the holy scriptures.  From such turn away.)   13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

7m

Mar 15

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Isaiah 13   9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and HE shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.   10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.   11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.   13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of HIS fierce anger.   Comments by Joan Boney:  Many years ago, God gave me a dream where the earth slipped on it's axis and moved in the solar system.  People were terrified. The governments of men were meeting with scientists and with the religious leaders to see what could be done about this.  (Nothing can be done for it is of God.)  A TV newsman was trying to tell this story but he was so frightened that he could not speak.  Finally, he just got up and walked out of the room.   💥💥💥   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.   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.   💥💥💥   Galatians 5   16  Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.   Ideas brought by the Spirit will bring:   22-23  love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

4m

Mar 14

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  The day of the Lord will come and God will pour out HIS wrath upon this world and  upon the apostate churches who have cast aside portions of the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, to go in their own way.   The elect of God continue in the way of God shown us by the Holy Bible, preparing for the return of Jesus where HE gathers those who obey HIS Word.   By scriptures of the Holy Bible we prove ourselves and correct ourselves.   2 Timothy 3:16-17  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.   The Proverbs show us ways of wisdom and help us to set a good foundation for our lives on this present earth.   💥💥💥💥💥     Proverbs 3   1 My son, forget not MY law; but let thine heart keep MY commandments:   2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.   3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:   4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 💥💥💥 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.   6 In all thy ways acknowledge HIM (pray over our ways and plans), and HE (the Word) shall direct thy paths.   7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.   8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.   💥💥💥   9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:   10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.   💥💥💥   11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of HIS correction:   12 For whom the LORD loveth HE correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.   💥💥💥   13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.   14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.   15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.   16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.   17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.   18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.   💥💥💥   19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath HE established the heavens.   20 By HIS knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.   (Only God can make it rain!)   21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:   22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.   23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.   24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.   💥💥💥   25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.   26 For the LORD (The Word) shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.   💥💥💥   27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.   28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.   💥💥💥   29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.   30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.   31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.   (Just because he troubled you, don't choose to trouble him.)   32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but HIS secret is with the righteous.   (froward:  stubbornly unruly)   💥💥💥 33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but HE blesseth the habitation of the just.   34 Surely HE scorneth the scorners: but HE giveth grace unto the lowly.   (scorners:  those who look down on other people considering them to be worthless; open dislike, disrespect, mockery; making fun of and scoffing another person; making contemptuous remarks about another person)   35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.   💥💥💥💥💥   It will get much worse in the days ahead on this earth.   No wonder Jesus said:  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.  (Mt. 24:21-22)   We must learn to operate in God's wisdom, obeying the Holy Scriptures.   Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.   Please keep this writing and all these concepts and scriptures before you and meditate on these things and be sure you are making proper adjustments to your life.   Proverbs 4 will be presented on March 16, 2023  to give you time to adjust to and do the scriptures in this writing.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

30m

Mar 13

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  The Holy Spirit that is in us searches the heart of God to reveal the will of God to us concerning the matter at hand.    I Corinthians 2:9-12    9 But as it is written (Isaiah 64:4), 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.   (Verse 9 is Old Testament ...  but in the New Covenant God gave HIS Spirit to each child of God who believed in HIM.  So verse 10 shows us that Holy Spirit searching the heart of God to reveal the will of God to each of us.)   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, https://www.blogger.com/   💥💥💥   💥 The Holy Spirit brings to our mind the ideas (plans) that are from God.   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.   💥 Devils bring to our mind ideas opposite to the way God wants us to go.    (Devil often brings fearful thoughts to get us to do what he wants us to do which will destroy us and take us in a way opposite to the will of God for us.)   Jesus says:  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  (Jn. 10:10)   💥  Our own flesh brings to our mind the ways the flesh wants to go.    (Way of the flesh:  Gal. 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.   (look up these words in dictionary)   💥💥💥   We have to choose the way that is of God.   How do we know the way that is of God:  pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy  (James 3:17)   Matthew 11:28-30  Jesus says:  Come unto ME, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of ME; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For MY yoke is easy, and my burden is light.   If the project is overly expensive and would work hardship on myself and family, I know I do not have God's plan.  There is likely another way to go.  I begin praying.  If the project is very hard to do and complex, I know I do not have God's plan.  For God's plan is light, easy to be entreated.  So I pray and seek God's plan again.   💥💥💥   Promise of God:   James 1:5  If anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him.   💥💥💥   This month a very large bank went out of business in the Seattle area of USA.  Though the bank is insured, certain companies said they did not know if they would be able to recover their money from the bank, since most of their loans are not insured by FDIC and were in the million's of dollars.   What should I do about my money in my bank?  I wondered.   So I asked God.   "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all liberally and unbraideth not, and it shall be given him."  (James 1:5)   So far God hasn't shown me to make any change, so I haven't done anything.   (This is the way we follow God.)   💥💥💥   In approximately 1982, I had a dream showing me gold was $900 per ounce.   I checked the price of gold coins and found them to be $280 per ounce at that time.   I felt God was showing me to begin to collect gold coins and sell them when they got to $900.  So that is what I did.  I began to collect Krugerrands when I had excess money.   In approximately 2002, gold reached $900 per ounce.  I used some of that gold to pay for radio broadcasts in Lubbock, Texas, in which I exhorted the churches in ways of God.   I used the remainder of the gold coins to pay my contractor for work he was doing on the house I built in Lubbock.   (I don't think God wants me to buy gold now during this banking problem in USA because gold is $1900 per ounce.  I could put the excess money into property but I felt that money was for the purpose of taking care of me since I am now 85-years-old.  So I won't do anything with the money in the bank unless God convinces me to do so.)   I don't do anything unless I feel I have heard from God because I know the following:   Proverbs 14:12  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.   💥💥💥   God leads us in what to do by bringing ideas to our minds.  God sometimes gives a dream showing what to do or confirming the direction we are thinking of going.   Another dream God gave me in the early 2000's ... The time was coming when people would not be able to have separate houses and they would have to consolidate housing to reduce financial obligations.   In 2018, I fell at my house in Texas.  God showed me at that time that I wouldn't be able to continue to live alone as I had been doing.  I was approximately 81-years-old when I fell.  As the ambulance workers rolled me past the front door of my house to take me to hospital, I heard these words from God by HIS Holy Spirit:  "You'll never see this house again."   (The Holy Spirit teaches us all things and shows us things to come:  Jn. 16:13)   Jesus says:  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, that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.   From the hospital, I put my house in Texas up for sale.   God worked it out for me to move into the house of another believer, so I moved to Colorado.  It has been great!  She has the same Spirit of God that I have.   The apostle Paul says to the church:   Philippians 4:19  But my God shall supply all your need according to HIS riches in glory by Christ Jesus (The Word).   If we need wisdom, HE will give us wisdom.   If we need to get out of debt, and we ask God how to do that, God will lead us in getting out of debt.   Whatever the need, God will provide for that need by Christ Jesus, The Word.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

18m

Mar 12

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

5m

Mar 11

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... I believe we are currently living in the end time period Jesus calls "The Beginning of Sorrows."  (Mt. 24:8) This comes before Jesus returns to awaken the dead and to gather the elect to take them to the new heaven and new earth which God has created for them for eternal life shown to John in the following scriptures.   Revelation 21:1-5   And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God HIMSELF shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.   💥💥💥   In the period of The Beginning of Sorrows, Jesus says:   Matthew 24   3 And as HE sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto HIM privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of THY coming, and of the end of the world?   4-5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in MY name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.   6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.   (WW I & WW II covering the whole earth which had never been seen before.  Regional wars also.)   7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences (Coronavirus of 2020), and earthquakes (50,000 killed in 2023 in Turkey & Syria), in divers places.   8  All these are the beginning of sorrows.   These are preludes to the coming of Jesus and The Great tribulation where God pours out plagues upon this world as a judgment before the end of this world.  The 7 angels bring the first 7 plagues.  Then 7 more angels pour out vials containing various "woes" upon this earth.   At the end of this world, God destroys this present heaven and earth with fire.   2 Peter 3:10-14   10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,   12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?   13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.   14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.   💥💥💥   Set yourself in agreement with the scriptures in the Holy Bible.  Put yourself in the way of God.  Correct your way.  Repent of any evil before the judgment of God consumes this earth and before Jesus gathers the elect.   Go forward in the wisdom of God.   💥💥💥💥💥    Proverbs 2   1 My son, if thou wilt receive MY words, and hide MY commandments with thee;   2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;   3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;   4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;   5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.   As I read the Bible, I'm always looking for scripture to do.   For the doer of the Word is blessed. (James 1:25)   💥💥💥   6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of HIS mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.   (Romans 12:2... And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, to Bible, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God)   7 HE layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: HE is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.   (The righteous are those who seek the ways of God and do that which is right in the sight of God.  We learn by the Word of God by the examples given us in the Holy Bible.)   (buckler: a shield ... When we follow the scriptures and see the examples in the Bible, we are shielded from many temptations of this world as we choose to do that which we believe to be right in the sight of God.)   8 HE (God) keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of HIS saints.   (The Holy Spirit of God who lives in us searches the heart of God and brings to our mind what HE hears from God and we go that way. 1 Cor. 2:10-12  The Holy Spirit is always compatible with the Holy Scriptures and HE will not go against the scriptures.)   9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.   💥💥💥   10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;   11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:   (discretion: doing that which is called to your memory which is compatible with the scriptures; usually doing that which is right by the Spirit of God.)   12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;    (froward:  stubbornly unruly especially against the Word of God)   13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;   💥💥💥   In the end times, Jesus says many will leave the right way because the iniquity around them in this world will be so bad.   Matthew 24:12-13  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many (for the Word of God) shall wax cold.  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.   💥💥💥   (We know evil for we know the scriptures:  Galatians 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft (superstitions), hatred, variance (to vary / debate), emulations (to try to outdo another person), wrath (to want evil to come to another), strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings (partying, usually with excess of drugs or alcohol), and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.)   And we know good because we know the Spirit of God.   Galatians 5:22-23  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith (in God and in HIS word), meekness, temperance:   💥💥💥   Proverbs 2   (But some leave the right way of God and go in the way of the world and in the way of the apostate churches.)   14  Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;   15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:   (froward:  stubbornly unruly)   💥💥💥   The word delivers those who will go in the way of the Word.   16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;   17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.   18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.   19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.   20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good, and keep the paths of the righteous.   💥💥💥   21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.   22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.   💥💥💥💥💥   And it will get much worse in the days ahead on this earth.   No wonder Jesus said:  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.  (Mt. 24:21-22)   We must learn to operate in God's wisdom, obeying the Holy Scriptures.   Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.   Please keep this writing and all these concepts and scriptures before you and meditate on these things and be sure you are making proper adjustments to your life.   Proverbs 3 will be presented on March 13 to give you time to adjust to and do the scriptures in this writing.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

12m

Mar 10

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

10m

Mar 09

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Wisdom from God is something we greatly need to pursue and to seek at this time in our lives as we continue to wait for the return of Jesus and as we witness those things coming upon the earth in the days ahead.   * unusual storms at strange times of the year;  * earthquakes;  * Coronavirus pestilence;  * volcanic eruptions;  * extreme heat and forest fires;  * governments of men working in great debt;  * blatant and overt wickedness flaunted before our eyes on TV;  * no shame;  * men lying without concern;  * moral corruption;  * sins in church groups even to removal of doctrines of Bible from the congregation,  * the apostate churches of the end times.   💥💥💥   God makes this promise to HIS people, HIS church today.   James 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.   Sometimes we simply forget to talk with God about our plans.  And we go forth in our own thinking.  It might work out and it might not when we go about it like that.  Why take the risk?  when we have the promise from God that if we ask HIM for wisdom, HE will give us wisdom?   I believe this series on Wisdom will help each of us to remember to seek wisdom from God.  And I believe these writings over the next month will cause us to have an understanding of wisdom and to keep in our minds the need we have for wisdom to become deeply rooted in each of our hearts.   We should find these writings to be very exciting, profitable and comforting as we go forward daily.   💥💥💥   King Solomon asked God for wisdom and God gave Solomon wisdom and Solomon was the wisest of men because it was from God!   I Kings 3   4 And the king (Solomon) went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.   5  In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.   6 And Solomon said, THOU hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before THEE in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with THEE; and THOU hast kept for him this great kindness, that THOU hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.   7 And now, O LORD my God, THOU hast made THY servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.   8 And THY servant is in the midst of THY people which THOU hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.   9 Give therefore THY servant an understanding heart to judge THY people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this THY so great a people?   10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.   11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;   12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.   13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.   14 And if thou wilt walk in MY ways, to keep MY statutes and MY commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.   15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream.    And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.   💥💥💥   The wisdom God gave to king Solomon has lasted for centuries and even today in secular TV shows, I have heard reference made to the wisdom of Solomon.   Wisdom from God is greatly to be desired, more than rubies and silver and gold.  There is nothing like wisdom that comes from God.   💥💥💥   The wisdom of Solomon:   Proverbs 1   1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;   2  To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;   3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;   4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.   💥💥💥 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:   6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.   7  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.   💥💥💥   To fear God and choose HIS way is safety, prosperity, and health.  True wisdom is to choose God and that which HE shows you.   Fear of the Lord is to have great awe of that which God shows you and to know that to go any other direction is to risk extreme danger and is very foolish.   We have a sure thing when we hear a word from God and go that way!   I was born again in 1975 and began reading the Bible and seeking to do the Word.  I saw the information about king Solomon and wanted wisdom from God.  Also I saw that God promises to give us wisdom if we ask HIM.    I wrote on each book of the Bible, "Remember to ask God for wisdom."   💥💥💥   No good comes from traveling with the evil seekers:   Proverbs 1:10-16    My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.   11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:   12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:   13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:   14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:   15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:   16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.   💥💥💥   2 Corinthians 6   14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?   15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?   16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be MY people.   17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean ; and I will receive you,   18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be MY sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.   💥💥💥   At the time I was born again, so far as I know, none of my friends were Christians.  And I was changed so dramatically by God that I no longer wanted to be with those people I had been around.  I wanted to hear things of God.  I wanted to read Bible.  I wanted to go to Church and attend things of God with people of God.   Two Baptist women said to me, "Don't give up your worldly friends."   But I no longer had anything in common with my previous friends.   The Baptist women were thinking maybe I could lead some of my past friends to Christ.  But that is not the way I felt.  I just didn't have anything in common anymore with them.  I was very changed by God.   Ezekiel 36  God says:   23 And I will sanctify MY great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.   24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.   25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.   26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.   27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.   💥💥💥   If we reject God's counsel:   Proverbs 1   20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:   21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,   22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?   (God says)   23 Turn you at MY reproof: behold, I will pour out MY spirit unto you, I will make known MY words unto you.   24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out MY hand, and no man regarded;   25 But ye have set at nought all MY counsel, and would none of MY reproof:   26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;   27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.   28 Then shall they call upon ME, but I will not answer; they shall seek ME early, but they shall not find ME:   29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:   30 They would none of MY counsel: they despised all MY reproof.   31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.   32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.   💥💥💥 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto ME shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.   💥💥💥💥💥   Consider this:   Proverbs 14:12  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.   I believe we live now in the beginning of the end times warned about in the Bible.  If so, we are told by the apostle Paul to expect these to be "perilous times".   2 Timothy 3   1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.   2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,   3 Without natural affection (homosexuals / lesbians / abortionists), trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,   4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;   5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.   (Paul doesn't tell us to keep company with this world or disobedient church people.  Paul says to turn away from them when you see this.  And that is what I did.)   💥💥💥 And Jesus says, concerning the end times:   Matthew 24   1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.   2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.   3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?   4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.   5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.   6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.   7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.   8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.   💥  Wars:  World Wars I & II ... spectacular in that they included most of the nations of men on this earth.   💥  Pestilences:  2020  Coronavirus covers entire world as we have never seen before.  NYC was empty of people and traffic as we usually see it.  On March 11, 2020, I was shocked to hear they were cancelling the major college basketball tournament, "March Madness".  Professional basketball and professional golf and professional baseball cancelled games and tournaments and entire seasons. Most things completely shut down, never before seen. And it happened all over the earth!  It reminded me of the fall of Babylon in Revelation 18.  (It was not that event but I was seeing things that were described in the writings concerning the fall of Babylon.)   💥  Earthquakes:  2023 Great earthquake in Turkey and Syria kills almost 50,000 people (unheard of).   How can these things not get our attention?   💥💥💥   And Jesus speaks of more things to come at the end.   Matthew 24:12-13  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.   💥💥💥   And Jesus tells us how really bad the time will become:   Matthew 24:21-22  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.   💥💥💥   Churches are everywhere in USA.  How could it ever get this bad?   The apostasy comes into churches.  They fall away from scripture and set up other doctrines. They feel secure because they say "Jesus is Lord", but they cast aside scripture which is "Jesus".  And they have no idea they are a part of antichrist and the apostasy of the end time.   If we really love The Word of God, we will live by the instructions of the scriptures.   A quick test:  Jesus said:  Matthew 5:32  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.   Is this what they teach and do at your church group?   * The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery?   * The divorced woman commits adultery if she remarries?   * The man who divorces a faithful wife is the cause of her committing adultery if she remarries?   💥💥💥   The apostasy in today's churches is rampant.   Do they teach the following about homosexuals and lesbians at your church group?   Romans 1:26-28  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:   27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.   28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;   💥💥💥   "without natural affection":  (2 Timothy 3:3)  ... Is it "natural" for a woman to kill her unborn child with abortion?   💥💥💥   "sex outside of marriage" ... fornication ... The apostle Paul says at the time of sexual intercourse two become one flesh, even if you have sex with an "harlot" (prostitute)   I Cor. 6:15-18  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.   16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.   17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.   18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.   💥💥💥   And it will get much worse in the days ahead on this earth.   No wonder Jesus said:  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.   22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.  (Mt. 24:21-22)   We must learn to operate in God's wisdom, obeying the Holy Scriptures.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

25m

Mar 07

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  💥 John 18:36  (Jesus said)  MY kingdom is not of this world: if MY kingdom were of this world, then would MY servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is MY kingdom not from hence.   💥💥💥   Hebrews 11   23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.   (The king had commanded that every male child be killed at birth because there were too many Jewish people in Egypt.  Moses would have been killed but his parents hid Moses in the river and Pharaoh's daughter found the Hebrew baby floating in the daubed ark and she took him to raise him as her own child.)   24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;   25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;   26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.   27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing HIM who is invisible.   Like Moses, we too see HIM who is invisible.   Those things we can see with our natural eye will be burned up, destroyed by God, at the end of this world.   2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   Matthew 24:35  (Jesus says)  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but MY words shall not pass away.   We see that which is eternal.  The people of this world see that which is temporary.   2 Corinthians 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.   (temporal: temporary; restricted by boundaries of time)   💥💥💥   Mark 8  (Jesus says)   34 And when HE had called the people unto HIM with HIS disciples also, HE said unto them, Whosoever will come after ME, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow ME.   35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for MY sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.   36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?   37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?   💥💥💥   Abraham is an example for us.  He wanted his "wealth" to come from God.   Genesis 14   21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.   22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,   23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:   💥💥💥   As those born of the Spirit of God, we try to do that which is right in the sight of God to other people.   We are not abusers of ourselves with mankind as are those people of this world.   I Corinthians 6   8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.   9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,   10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.   💥💥💥   We have inside of us the way of God as we deal with others, not wanting to take advantage of others to get what we want on this present earth.   We hold fast to personal integrity which comes from doing that which is right in the sight of God.  We base our way of life on what is right in the sight of God, living by scripture, living uncompromising lives, building a moral base from scriptures.   In pursuit of money and fame and position in this life, many lose personal integrity, compromising their way of life to get what they want.  Integrity is critical for each of us.   Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.  Our integrity is based on that which God teaches us from the Holy Bible and on that which God plants in our heart by HIS Holy Spirit.   For our kingdom is not of this world, as is theirs.   That which matters to us is doing that which is right in the sight of God, even when it causes us to suffer worldly loss.   💥 Examples: I have a bed frame which raises and lowers the bed.  One of our kittens chewed through the wiring.  We set about to have the frame fixed.  But when the man from the mattress company came to replace the motor, he found the damage was far more extensive than anticipated so we would be better off to buy a new frame.  When I found we needed to do this, all I could think of is being sure we paid the man who came but couldn't do the repair work.  When I asked Pam, she said she had already paid him for his trip to our house.  Pam and I have the same Spirit, the Spirit of God, not wanting to do harm to others nor cause them to suffer loss.  (I Cor. 6:9  (not being) Abusers of themselves with mankind)   Another example:  I bought a new leather sofa several years ago. After they delivered the sofa, my cat jumped on the sofa and inspected the addition.  When my cleaning lady came to work, she said my cat had damaged the new sofa with one of her claws.  I looked at one of the seats and saw the claw mark.  Most people would not notice the small scratch.  I could have called and told the furniture store I had decided not to buy the sofa.  But if I did that someone else would suffer loss.  If the furniture store sold the sofa then the customer would have a slightly damaged sofa.  Or the furniture store would suffer loss if they discovered the blemish and had to discount the price to sell the item.  This is what Paul means when he speaks of being an abuser of themselves with mankind.  Is is worth losing your soul?   💥💥💥   I Corinthians 10:12-13  Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.   13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.   In 2019, when I moved to Colorado, I gave that leather sofa to my contractor's son.  Tom said his son was so happy to get the sofa.   Do not defraud another person.  Suffer the loss.  God will repay you.   This is a part of developing integrity.   Also it shows that person and whether or not this world is that person's kingdom.   We must do right by other people.   I Corinthians 6   6 Now these things (in the Bible) were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.   7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.   8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.   9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.   10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.   (murmur:   complain)   11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.   💥💥💥   Colossians 3   1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.   (What is right in the sight of God in this issue?)   2 Set your affection on things above (pleasing God), not on things on the earth.   3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.   (At the moment we were born again, we died to this world and the things of this world, for God gave us HIS Spirit to live in us and teach us and guide us in HIS ways.  HE delivered us from this world and caused us to follow HIS Spirit.  So our goals differ from the goals of this world.  Now we serve God doing as God instructs.  We are dead to this world but alive to God. And we hold fast to the Word of God in all our ways, doing what is shown us by God through HIS Spirit and the Holy Scriptures.)   4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with HIM in glory.   5 Mortify (put to death) therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:   6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:   7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.   8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.   9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;   10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of HIM that created him:   11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.   12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;   13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.   14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.   15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.   16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;    💥💥💥   The Book of Proverbs is filled with wisdom given to king Solomon from God and we can learn many wonderful things by these verses in this life, seeing the way of God, the way of true godliness for both this life and the next life which is forever.   Our kingdom is not of this world.  We see HIM who is invisible!   I often pray over myself the following:   Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.   When we brush against this world and the ideas of man, we often take on uncleanness of this world.  I depend on God to restore my soul to HIS ways and set me straight from the ways of men of this world.  So I ask God to cleanse my heart and spirit that I may serve God and go in HIS way.   After praying this and depending on God, I encounter perfect peace, as God restores me to HIMSELF and His truth and HIS way.   When God cleanses us, we are clean!   Start now with a good heart and lay your foundation in wisdom as presented by God as we spend the next month looking at the book of Proverbs and allowing God to work in us by HIS Word.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

58m

Mar 06

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Amos 5:15  Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.   💥💥💥   There is so much blatant evil displayed today on TV.  When it appears, I usually turn that program off.  Sometimes the news presents unnecessary evil.  Often evil appears in TV programs.  And politicians are really incredibly evil in some of their talking and presentations.   I can tell they do not understand sins in the sight of God.   I Corinthians 6   9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexual), nor abusers of themselves with mankind,   10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.   11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.   Galatians 5:19-21   19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,   20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,   21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.   💥💥💥   But you must not return to these sins after you have been forgiven.   Hebrews 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,   2 Peter 2:20-21  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.   Hebrews 6:4-6  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put HIM to an open shame.   7-8 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.   💥💥💥   Jesus says your name can be blotted out of the book of life.   Revelation 3:5  He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before MY Father, and before HIS angels.   💥💥💥   John 8, is the story of the woman taken in adultery who is brought before Jesus.   Jesus forgave this woman.  But Jesus then said to her:  "Go ... and sin no more."  (Jn. 8:11)   💥💥💥   I can't imagine wanting to sin after you have been forgiven.   Aren't we ashamed of those sins we committed before we were born again?  How could we want to return to that which "damns" us?  Don't we understand how unprofitable such things were to us before?   💥💥💥   The story of Joseph:   Joseph's brothers sold Joseph into slavery when Joseph was 17-years-old.   Genesis 39   1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.   2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.   3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.   4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.   5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.   6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat.  And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.   7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.   8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;   9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?   10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.   11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.   12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.   13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,   14 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:   15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.   16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.   17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:   18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.   19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.   20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.   21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.   22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.   23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.   💥💥💥   Romans 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.   Renew your mind to the Bible, the Word of God.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

30m

Mar 05

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  When Jesus returns in a cloud in the sky, HE will come with a voice that wakes the dead in Christ.  And Jesus will send HIS angels to this earth to gather HIS elect and take them off this earth in their new spiritual bodies.  They will be taken to the new heaven and the new earth, new Jerusalem which is prepared for them by God.   Revelation 21 (The New heaven and earth)   1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.   2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.   3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God HIMSELF shall be with them, and be their God.   4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.   5 And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. 💥💥💥 I Corinthians 15   (New spiritual bodies)   46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.   47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.   48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.   49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.   50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.   51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall all be changed,   52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.   (Blink:  That is how fast we will be changed from our present physical bodies into our new spiritual bodies.)   53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.   💥💥💥   I Thessalonians 4  (The dead in Christ are awakened by Jesus)   13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.   14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with HIM.   15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep.   16 For the Lord HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:   17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.   💥💥💥   Matthew 24:31  (Jesus sends HIS angels to gather the elect of God)  And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.   💥💥💥   Then comes The Great Tribulation which God brings upon this earth. 7 trumpets of God will sound by the 7 angels of God loosing the 7 plagues upon this earth. 7 more angels will pour out the vials of wrath upon this earth. Then God will destroy this present heaven and earth with fire.   2 Peter 3:10-14  (God destroys this present heaven and earth with fire)   10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,   12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?   13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.   14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.   💥💥💥   Why does judgment come on this earth?   Unrepentant man is destroyed by God because of sin:   Galatians 5:19:21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.   I Corinthians 6:9-10  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.   Judgment is coming!   Repent and ask God to save you and stop sinning.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

28m

Mar 04

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  No church can save you.  The church are the people who have been saved, born again by the Spirit of God.   We are saved by The Word of God.  When God speaks to us giving us the Word, we are then born again by that Word, saved.   Acts 2:47  And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.   Acts 13:48  and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.   💥💥💥   I went forward at my aunt's church (Church of Christ) when I was 15 and was baptized in water.  But I was not born again by the Spirit of God.  I didn't want to go to hell so I did what that church group said to do.  Nothing at all changed inside me.  I continued pursuing my own ambitions.  I rarely thought of God at all.   On August 5, 1975, I was reading a book about sin, when God spoke to me and said:  "Joan ... you know all those mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those where sins."   SINS ... I was so shocked!   And with that Word of God, I was born again.   2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.   I was changed immediately, given the Holy Spirit of God to live inside me and to teach me and guide me.   The New Covenant Church:   Ezekiel 36  (God says)   23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.   24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.   25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.   26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.   27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. 💥💥💥   Pam Padgett was raised in the Catholic church.  One of her classmates was killed on a motorcycle.  This is the first time Pam knew a person her age could die.   The following concept came into her heart:  My only hope is God.  Nothing I can do and nothing I learned in the Catholic church can save me.   She knew she would go to hell if she died at that time.  She was terrified and cried out to God.   "If there is any way you can save me, please save me.  YOU are my only hope!"   After praying that, she knew there was something of God in her.  It was years before she saw a scripture showing her what it was of God that was in her.   1 Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?   💥💥💥   John 1   1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.   2 The same was in the beginning with God.   3 All things were made by HIM; and without HIM was not any thing made that was made.   4 In HIM was life; and the life was the light of men.   5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.   10 HE was in the world, and the world was made by HIM, and the world knew HIM not.   11 HE came unto HIS own, and HIS own received HIM not.   12 But as many as received HIM, to them gave HE power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on HIS name:   13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.   14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld HIS glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

23m

Mar 03

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Jesus tells us to beware of false ministers in the end time:   Matthew 24   1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and HIS disciples came to HIM for to shew HIM the buildings of the temple.   2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.   (Everything we can see with our natural eyes will be destroyed.)   3 And as HE sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto HIM privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of THY coming, and of the end of the world?   4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.   5 For many shall come in MY name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 💥💥💥   Peter warns us about end time ministers who see us as "merchandise" to benefit themselves, sources of money.   2 Peter 2   1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.   2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.   3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.   4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;   5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;   6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;   7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:   8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)   9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:     14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:   15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;   16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.   17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.   18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.   19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.   20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.   21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.   22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. 💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

38m

Mar 02

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  A great many church people want to be strong in themselves and in that which they have learned.   They think they are trusting in God but actually they are trusting in their own flesh and their own learning.   And through fleshly pride, they think they are supposed to take care of the problem themselves, rather than simply calling on God and submitting the problem to God and letting God work in the situation as HE wills.   💥💥💥   My 97 year old cousin told me this:  "I do well during the day, but I get so lonely in the evenings."   I told her, each evening when you start to feel pulled down, just turn to God and ask God to help you, filling your evening, and God will help you.   Philippians 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.   About 2 weeks later, she wrote to me saying:  "I do well during the day but I get so lonely in the evenings."   She didn't do the word of God.   Many in churches hear the Word of God and read the Word of God but fail to do the Word of God.   💥💥💥   In 2018, I fell in my house in Texas and had to have surgery on my left hip which was broken in the fall.   I was in a rehabilitation hospital for 2 1/2 months in Texas.  I was mostly alone.  When I awoke in the mornings I would often have this thought:  "How can I get through all this time today?"   And then I would remember to pray:  "God ... please fill the time today and help me."   God always helped me.  And I often was surprised that it was already dinner time!  Where did all the time go?  It flew by!   💥💥💥   Be strong in the Lord ...   When I come in contact with worldly thinking, I often pray:   Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.   It is not that I am asking God to help me.  "I'm asking God to cleanse me!"   Some trust in themselves.  But I turn to God trusting in HIM to cleanse my heart and spirit.   God restores my soul!  (Psalm 23:3)   I trust in the power of God's might.     💥💥💥   Some think themselves to be wise and to be able to figure out what to do.   I just ask God to give me wisdom.  Trusting in God and not in myself.   James 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.     James 3:17  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.   💥💥💥 Psalm 111:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do HIS commandments: HIS praise endureth for ever.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

10m

Mar 01

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  When we do the works of the flesh, we give place to devils.   Ephesians 4:26  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:   Before we are born again, we do the works of the flesh.   Galatians 5:19-21   19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,   20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,   21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 💥💥💥   After we are born again, we have the Holy Spirit of God, and then we can control our flesh by the Holy Spirit, by following the Spirit.   2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.   💥💥💥   Galatians 5:22-25   22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.   24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh (keeping our flesh dead) with the affections and lusts.   25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.   The flesh brings to mind something we can do that is of the flesh.  But we choose to do that which is of the Holy Spirit, keeping our flesh under control of the Spirit.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

7m

Feb 28

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Hebrews 12 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now HE hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:   💥💥💥   Revelation 21  (The new heavens and new earth)   1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.   2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.   3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.   4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.   5 And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.   💥💥💥 https://www.blogger.com/   Psalm 111:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do HIS commandments: HIS praise endureth for ever.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

11m

Feb 27

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

7m

Feb 26

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  John 14:6  I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.   💥💥💥   Jesus, The Word, is the way, the truth , and the life.   💥  The Word will never fail us nor forsake us.  (Josh.1:5 & Heb. 13:5)   💥  God will supply all your need.  (Phil. 4:19)   💥  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  (Mt. 24:13)   💥  Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:  For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.  (Lk 21:14-15)   💥  Heaven and earth shall pass away: but MY words shall not pass away.  (Lk. 21:33)   💥  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Take therefore no thought for the morrow:  (Mt. 6:33-34)   💥  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.  (James 1:5)   💥  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  (Phil. 4:6-7)   💥💥💥   2 Peter 1   3 According as HIS divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of HIM that hath called us to glory and virtue:   4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.   💥💥💥💥💥   * For writings on additional subjects, click here:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog https://jesusministriesexhortations.blogspot.com/

17m

Feb 25