Building your house on the word from God

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

Sadly, there can be much arrogance substituted for real faith in the virus problem today.  True faith comes when we hear from God individually concerning the matter at hand.  Many are showing a type of fleshly pride in saying God will not allow themselves to be hurt in this current virus problem. 

We pray and ask God for protection ... then we follow that which is spoken to us in the matter at hand ... 

These people I've been hearing, show no basis other than religious pride in their statements, being recorded in the news programs which I have heard, concerning what will happen or will not happen to themselves.  And they often go forth in a form of fleshly pride which greatly concerns me for I do not witness a true Spirit operating in them when I've heard them say the things they are saying.  There has been an absence of godly humility, thus showing others a form of stubbornness and faith in themselves, which they think witnesses God, but is actually harmful to all. 

I've witnessed this false faith many times in church member's statements through the past decades.  

It is only when God gives us a word on the situation at hand that we can operate in "true" faith. 

Examples of real faith based on a word from God by HIS Spirit are given on this Podcast.

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

This Podcast provides examples showing what it means to follow God by HIS Spirit.  For all who are led by the Spirit are the sons of God ... and the others are counterfeits calling themselves Christians.

Few know what it means to be lead by the Spirit of God or even how to identify those ideas which are from the Spirit of God.

It is truly critical for us to know these things in the current period of time, for how do you go forward in a time when the whole world is stumbling about in chaos. You don't want to be following them.

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

A great deal of attending church gatherings has to do with social attachments.  People think they are worshipping God by going to church but many are doing something else and don't even know it.

Even in the midst of the Coronavirus of 2020, and the order for "social distancing", many continue to gather at their church groups.  I'm sure they consider it a lack of faith not to attend.  But often they are just craving social action in a period of extreme and unusual inactivity.

I doubt there are many "real" Christians out there in churches anyway.

For the real Christians, we know it has to do with hearing from God by HIS Word and following God. You can do that wherever you are.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.  Romans 8:14

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

The first thing God taught me as a Christian is to get out of debt.  I did this.  And I continued to live debt free.  So when Coronavirus hit, I had no debt.  This changes everything!

The way this world lives is a very hard yoke.  

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.  (Colossians 3:1-2)

Instead of following after things, let us follow after scriptures.

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

Are you trying to serve God or are you trying to get God to serve you?

We might start out as new Christians hoping God will serve us by giving us what we want in this present life.  Along the way we will likely change to the concept that we are to serve God.

Key prayers:  Deliver me from evil.  Help me to be free to go in the way of God.  Keep me from doing those temptations of this life.  THY will be done!

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Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

Twice in March 2020, God opened my eyes to see what scripture meant.  I had read these two sections of scripture for decades without understanding.  Then God allowed me to understand.  That is the way it is sometimes with Bible.  One scripture is in Old Testament and the other in New Testament.  What God showed me is revealed in this Podcast.

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(or go to:  https://jesusministriespodcasts.blogspot.com/2020/04/god-shows-us-truth.html)

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

All mistakes are sins.  We forgot God in doing that which we did.  For had we consulted with God in prayer and had we waiting until God gave us a word showing us what to do, then we would not have made that mistake.

Ideas come to us from our own flesh and desires of our flesh ... Ideas come from devils who want to destroy us ... Ideas comes from God.

We have to choose which way we will go.

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

Coronavirus was like a nuclear explosion over the entire world, changing lives completely. Things in the future will be very different.

When we step out of our houses after Coronavirus ends, safety for us, will be in our seeking God and following that which God shows us.  For it will be very different.

It sort of reminds me of the pictures we have seen of bombings of cities in WWII.  People are shut up inside during the bombings.  When they come out after the "all clear" signal, they are shocked to see many of the buildings they once knew are gone.  It is a completely different world and requires a different way of life to survive in the rubble.

If you know how to follow God and you do "that", you should be fine even in the changes.

There is no reason to waste energy complaining over the difference, for it will be different from before.  Just seek God and go that way!

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

Today divorced women in churches often look for men to marry.  They even attend singles classes at churches to try to find husbands.

The Bible presents several scriptures in the New Testament which shows us that the divorced woman commits adultery if she remarries.

But is there any scripture which encourages a divorced woman to think she can remarry after divorce?

We must learn to set our goals for this life based upon that which the Bible says in the New Testament by the Spirit of God which shows the will of God for this present life.

What does the Bible say?

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Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

Many start the race but few finish.

Along the way, other things become more interesting to some church people than the Word of God, or things can become more important to them, and their love of God and their love for the Word of God grows cold and they no longer want to read the Bible or spiritual blogs.

When this begins to happen we must recognize it quickly and pray:  God, please help me.  Please don't let me grow cold to YOU or to the Word.  Please give me the spark I need to cause that fire for the Word to light in my heart.  Please don't let me be swept away.

I believe this is something that happens to all at various points in life.

We have to fight for faith at that point in time.  And a starting place is prayer.

Jesus warned:  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many (for the Word of God) shall wax cold.  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  (Mt. 24:12-13)

The honeymoon is great!  But life destroys some marriages.  We have to work to keep that fire for the Word of God burning within us as long as we live on this present earth.