Building your house on the word from God

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Hebrews 6:10  For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward HIS name (The Word), in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.   We really love the Word of God.   Philippians 2   12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out y...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Jesus said:  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.   (Jn. 5:30)   How do we know the will of God?   As the Holy Spirit who dwells in us reminds us of scripture or shows us a concept, we know the will of God.   As Jesus always heard from God,...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  I became interested in the word "covetousness" and looked this up in dictionary and saw a revealing definition showing that which causes covetousness:   "covetousness:  eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth or possessions.  Social media so often encourages us to compare ourselves to others, inspiring covetousness and insecurity."   And I recalled the f...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  There are many types of needs:     money,  jobs,  information concerning what to do,  encouragement in following God   Regardless of our need, God is our supply and source when we belong to HIM.   The king of Sodom offered to bless Abraham, but Abraham declined and said:     I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and ea...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...    Mt. 7   Jesus says:   Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Mt. 7:13-14  Jesus says: Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.   After I was born again, I asked my best friend, a Baptist:  "And what do we do now?"...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  After Jesus arose into heaven, HE set up the New Testament church and called some individuals to be HIS ministers to edify HIS church.   Eph. 4:11-12 And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:   The a...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Destructive thoughts come to our minds to turn us from that which God has shown us and to pull us down in this life.  These thoughts are often from devils.   Therefore the apostle Peter says:   I Peter 5:8-9   Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:  Whom resist stedfast in the faith,...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Several years ago, God gave me the following dream:   A stagecoach, pulled by 4 black horses, was racing toward a nearby cliff.  No one was driving the stagecoach.  Inside the carriage, I saw a silly looking woman looking out.  She had long blond curls and a big smile on her face and she had no idea how close she was to her own destruction.   As people demand the...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Romans 8:14   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.   When God reveals HIMSELF to us, HE gives us HIS Spirit, The Holy Spirit to live inside us.   I Cor. 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?   I Cor. 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Romans 12:1-2   I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 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.   This world...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...    We have two people from whom we are "separated" in our church group.   In one case, I felt God saying to me to wait until she comes to me saying she did such and such because of a scripture.   In the other case, I felt God was showing me to wait until she comes showing repentance over that which she did which caused the separation.     I was reminded of the way...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  As a new Christian, in 1975, I came across an astounding scripture with this promise from God to the church.   Isaiah 54:17   No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of ME, saith the LORD.   At tha...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  The power to believe the Word of God and to do the Word of God is attached to meditating in the scriptures given to us by the Holy Spirit.   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 pros...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  No man can go to God except through Jesus, The Word.   So if we are tempted to go a way opposite to that which we read in the New Testament Bible, we know we cannot go to God that opposite way.   Galatians 5   19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  For those people in church groups who love the form of godliness but do not love the actual Word of God, God prepares HIS instruments of destruction.   God can use evil angels to lead those people in ways of destruction:   Psalm 78:49  HE cast upon them the fierceness of HIS anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.   These ev...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  God communicates directly with the elect of God, HIS children, and leads them and guides them by HIS Holy Spirit.   Jn. 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.   Jn. 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spi...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Jesus always heard from God and did the will of God.     Jesus said:  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.  (Jn. 5:30)   That is what we do also as we hear that which the Holy Spirit speaks to us and walk in those directions as we live on th...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Mt. 16:13-18   When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, HE asked HIS disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15 HE saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Chr...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  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.   If we approve the sins of this world and give support to those who sin in such, then we become the enemy of God.   At the judgment seat of Christ we will be judged by the views God presents in th...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...    Before God destroyed Sodom, sexual perversions were rampant among the city of Sodom.  "From every quarter", of the city of Sodom, men came out to have sex with the two men who lodged with Abraham's nephew, Lot. (Gen. 19)   God described the men of Sodom as follows:  Gen. 13:13   "But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly."     Whe...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...    We have a neighbor who is a tennis coach.  She stopped by our house one day and I showed her my colorful tennis wrist bands that I have been using to help with my two broken wrists.   As she looked at them, she asked, "Does this mean you support gay rights."   I was very shocked.   I replied, "I don't think so."   (I couldn't understand why anyone would think m...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  In the days before God destroyed Sodom, the sins were open and widespread in every part of the city.   Abraham's nephew, Lot, was continually troubled by that which they said and that which they did in Sodom.   Genesis 19  God sends 2 angels to destroy Sodom.   1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them ros...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  God had Noah build an ark so he would not be destroyed with the wickedness of this world.   I believe we, too, build an ark based on that which God has told us to do so we will not be swept away in the end times.   When you look at my life, I think you can see that ark.   My job is to exhort the church and God gave me ways to do that in this period of time.  (Blo...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  The apostle Paul said:   Galatians 1:8   But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. There is only one gospel, and that is the Word that is from God, the Holy Scriptures.   Angels carry messages from God.   What if a message comes to you which is opposite from the Bible?...