Episodes

  • Things showing us how close we are to the return of Jesus

    Things showing us how close we are to the return of Jesus
    Mar 5 2026
    (This podcast was previously published on April 23, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... When the sins of this world and the sins of the churches around us increase, it signals the coming of Jesus and the great tribulation and the end of this present world. As the sins in the days of Noah brought the destruction of this world by God, and the open sins of the men of Sodom in the days of Lot signaled the destruction of Sodom, the rampant and blatant sins of today show us how close we are coming to the end of this world. Jesus says: Matthew 24 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but MY words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but MY Father only. 37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. *** Luke 21 7 And they asked HIM, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? 8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in MY name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. 9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. 10 Then said HE unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (pestilences: Have we ever seen anything before like Coronavirus?) 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. *** According to Matthew 24, the following will happen: * The great tribulation * The powers of heaven will be shaken * Jesus comes through the clouds and send HIS angels to gather the elect. 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. ***** Jesus said: Luke 21 29 And HE spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. When we see signs such as: volcanoes erupting, earthquakes, stars or meteors fall from the heavens ... God is likely speaking to HIS people. I always notice when these things happen today. And I consider that the great tribulation is likely coming soon. And the shaking of the powers of heaven by the sun failing to give it's light. The moving of the earth slightly in the solar system. And then the sign of Jesus in the sky. And we will see open wickedness in both the world and in the apostate churches. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. *** Matthew 24:44 Jesus says: Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless. Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. *** Great wickedness of men came before the destruction from God: Luke 21 Jesus said: 26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, ...
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    44 mins
  • The New Covenant: God puts HIS laws directly into our hearts and minds

    The New Covenant: God puts HIS laws directly into our hearts and minds
    Mar 4 2026
    (This podcast was previously published on April 26, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... After we are born again by the Spirit of God, God puts HIS laws for the New Testament church directly into our hearts and minds. Hebrews 8:10-11 God says: 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. Often God will put HIS own desire into our hearts so that we desire to do that thing even before the situation arises. But if we are about to go in a way that would not be of God, HE can cause our heart to change to go even in a way opposite from that which we thought we wanted to go. God just puts in our heart another desire and leads us that new way. God shields us from those things that would not be beneficial for us, and keeps us from that which would hurt us and destroy us. And HE leads us into a more abundant life than we could have had otherwise. God even puts HIS own laws into our hearts and minds. Hebrews 10:16 God says: This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put MY laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; I John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of HIM abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in HIM. (Abide in that which God has told you.) 28 And now, little children, abide in HIM; that, when HE shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before HIM at HIS coming. 29 If ye know that HE is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of HIM. ***** John 14:26 Jesus says: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. John 16:13 Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear, that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come. I Corinthians 2 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. *** If we are of God, we are righteous, because of that which God has shown us, and the Spirit of God dwells in us to remind us of all things that we have heard from God. I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? We pray continually for the will of God to be done in our lives on this present earth. 💥💥💥💥💥 * For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
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    19 mins
  • Don't compromise: Concerning Homosexuals and Lesbians: What Bible says

    Don't compromise: Concerning Homosexuals and Lesbians: What Bible says
    Mar 3 2026
    (This podcast was previously published on April 22, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... Concerning compromise, never do we who are of God compromise scripture. 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; In the Bible, we have the example of the men of Sodom who went after strange flesh. Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. In every "quarter" of the city were homosexuals. God sent 2 angels to Sodom to deliver Lot (Abraham's nephew) before God destroyed Sodom. Angels look like natural men. Angels do not have wings. So when these homosexuals in Sodom realized the 2 men had come into Lot's home, they came demanding that Lot turn these 2 men over to them so they could have sex with these 2 men who were really 2 angels sent by God to destroy Sodom. Genesis 19:4-7 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: 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, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. In this Podcast, I will present the scriptures showing God's view of Sodomites and the way the nation of Israel dealt with Sodomites. God's view of the subject is all that matters. What does God think? The examples in the Bible show us the thinking of God on the various issues of this present life. ***** On April 12, 2021, on CNN International (Internet), there was a story about a pastor in the Southern Baptist church group, who announced that homosexuals and lesbians and other sexual deviates were welcome at his church. Before Jesus returns the churches will fall away from scriptures and antichrist moves into the church groups. II Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. In 1982, God said to me: "The falling away are not people leaving the churches. The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures." In the end times, churches will set up other doctrines, contrary to scripture, and go by these doctrines of man in their churches, casting aside scriptures. This is antichrist. The apostle John tells us there are "many antichrists", not just one antichrist. I John 2:18 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. John explains that those people who were antichrist came into their church group and then left them when they did not like the pure doctrine of Christ. Many of these antichrist people set up their own churches, denominations, where they could control the teaching and omit the doctrines of Christ as they preferred. In speaking with the elders of the church at Ephesus, the apostle Paul said: Acts 20:29-30 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Paul said to Timothy: II Timothy 4:2-4 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. This is what we are seeing today in many churches. These are the antichrists of the end times in the churches. ***** Concerning the Sodomites of the Old Testament: I Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. I Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. I Kings 22:46 And the remnant of the ...
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    26 mins
  • Be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind

    Be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
    Mar 2 2026
    (This podcast was previously published on April 18, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... When we are watching television, often we will hear someone say something that we know to be opposite to the Word of God as stated by God in the Holy Bible. It is very important for us to renew our mind to the Bible. Recently I heard a very famous man say, "All die. No one escapes death." Because of the Bible, I know that statement is not true. Immediately after I heard this man say this, I took my Bible and made a screen print of the page of scripture where Paul says, "We shall not all sleep (die)," I Corinthians 15:51-52 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. When Jesus returns, first the dead in Christ will be raised, then those who are still alive will be changed from this earthly physical body, and be raised from off this present earth and taken into the air to meet Jesus and those who are raised from the dead. I Thessalonians 4:13-17 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 (precede) them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words. ***** 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. We who believe in God, must be diligent to cling to truth of the Bible. Therefore when we hear someone on TV speak that which is contrary to Bible, it is important for us to renew our mind to the truth from the Bible. For that which is false could go down into our heart and at some point deceive us. Some will think this unnecessary. But I know it is critical to do the scriptures and not just hear the scriptures. And I know it is important to collect scriptures which are brought before us in situations such as this and put those scriptures into some form of collected file and meditate upon those scriptures as we live daily on this present earth, keeping ourselves by the Word of God. Joshua 1:8 God says: 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. I use my Kindle tablet photo section and make screen prints of such scriptures which I usually read daily. The man who said the lie of the world was Ernest Hemingway. A three part series of his life appeared on PBS and I recorded it. I watched some of Episode 1, but felt it best to stop watching when he divorced his first wife and married a second wife, and later a third wife, all of which is adultery according to the Bible. Matthew 5:32 Jesus said: 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. I only watched part of Episode 1, but as they praised Hemingway, I found myself saying, "But Hemingway committed suicide." Several times I said this. I deleted Episode 2, but I watched some of Episode 3, wanting to hear their report of Hemingway suicide. Toward the end of his life, he became crazy, thinking men in restaurants were government agents who were out to get him. At the Mayo clinic they were giving him electric shock treatments but he continued in his imagined fears. He was a very heavy drinker, a drunk. I just kept thinking of how you can have all that fame and glory of men, and destroy yourself and lose everything. Matthew 16:26 Jesus says: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? It is important for us to guard our own hearts with all diligence, uprooting the saying of this world and wisdom of this...
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    41 mins
  • Jesus says: "My sheep hear MY voice"

    Jesus says: "My sheep hear MY voice"
    Feb 28 2026
    (This podcast was previously published on April 24, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... Do you hear the voice of Jesus? Are you aware of the Holy Spirit of Jesus bringing thoughts to your mind to help you and to guide you in the way of God? Are you born again? If you are born again you do have the Spirit of God in you. I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Jesus says: John 10:27-29 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man (none) is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? The Spirit of God which is in us guides us into all truth, reminds us of that which Jesus has said to us, teaches us all things, and shows us things to come. (John 14:26, John 16:13) The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, the Comforter, the helper. If you have been born again, you have the Spirit of God in you. Therefore you are able to follow what Jesus says to you by HIS Spirit. You can hear Jesus' voice as the Holy Spirit brings thoughts to your mind to show you what to do. You might need to be more aware of thoughts coming to your mind. And how to recognize those thoughts that are from Jesus by HIS Spirit. Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ***** My experience is that the Holy Spirit speaks in a very gentle voice, bringing to my mind scriptures and concepts in the moments that I have to make decisions in this life so I can know the way God wants me to go in the issues at hand. John 14:26 Jesus says: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. I Corinthians 2 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 💥💥💥💥💥 * For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
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    18 mins
  • Born again: What this means. How you can tell if you are born again.

    Born again: What this means. How you can tell if you are born again.
    Feb 26 2026
    (This podcast was previously published on April 19, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... Being born again means, we are changed instantly by God. A young man told me he walked out on his back porch and "something happened." A woman, who was a long time drunk, said one day "something happened" and she had a great desire to read the Bible after that happened. She told her husband she was going to quit drinking. He didn't believe her because he'd heard her say that before. But this time the power of God was in her to enable her to do those things she could not do before. In my case, the Holy Spirit spoke these words to me: "Joan ... you know those mistakes you've been making all these years? Those weren't mistakes. Those were sins." After I heard the word of God, by the Spirit of God, I believed and was instantly changed by God. I read a portion of Bible (Deuteronomy 18:9-12) to my mother one day and she thought about that which I read to her and she said, "Well ... I guess we'd better not do that anymore." And instantly she was changed by God. My uncle wrote to me and said: "Your mother is changed. She is really changed." My dad was born again instantly by God when he was in his 70's. All of a sudden he wanted to go to church. Jesus said to Peter: Matthew16:17 Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. It is not that we learn things and change. We are instantly changed by God and are given the Holy Spirit to live in us. II Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. No man can do this for himself. He can go forward at church and be baptized and do what they tell him to do to be a member of their church group, but he cannot change inwardly as those who are born of the Spirit of God change. Being born again is an act of God, not an act of the will of man. Countless numbers are members of a church group, but few are born of the Spirit of God and changed instantly into completely new creatures by God HIMSELF. Being born again is instant change caused by God and not by mental learning of man. And it is having the Spirit of God living inside of you now to lead you and guide you. These statements will make no sense to the vast number of church goers who have not been born again by the Spirit of God. They think we learn everything by acts of our own will, by reading the Bible. But we cannot understand things of God by reading the Bible until we have been born again by God. I Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Jesus said: Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3 Paul says they are: "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." (II Timothy 3:7) But we cannot understand things of God by reading the Bible until we have been born again by God and have the Spirit of God in us to guide us and teach us. It is HIS Spirit causing us to change and to be recreated in the image of God. The Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23) We cannot obtain these "gifts" by copying others who have these gifts. These gifts of the Holy Spirit are given by God and are not a learned thing but, rather, a part of the new creation which God causes us to be when HE lives in us. I Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? When we were born as babies from our natural parents, we did nothing to cause ourselves to be born. Neither can we cause ourselves to be born again. We are children of God by the will of God, and born of HIS Spirit, and recreated by God in HIS image. As Jesus was born of the Holy Ghost, we also are now born of the Holy Ghost when we are born again. And as Jesus could hear from God the Father, now we also can hear from God the Father by HIS Spirit who now lives in us. As we inherit traits from our natural parents, now we inherit God's characteristics by being born of HIS Spirit. We are changed by God and we are no longer like that person we once were. Have you experienced that instant change from God? If you have, you know it. And others see that change in you also. That is what being born again is. We now have living in us God's Spirit. I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? It is not that we try to be godly. We are godly, for God lives in us now, for we are born of God our Father and ...
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    33 mins
  • Seek ye first the kingdom of God and HIS righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you

    Seek ye first the kingdom of God and HIS righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you
    Feb 25 2026
    (This podcast was previously published on April 21, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... When we are born again, changed by God, we are very different from the way we had been before. Often we no longer enjoy the people or things we once enjoyed. Usually we want to read the Bible and go to church to hear about God. Now we seek God and His righteousness, what is right in the sight of God. And this is our interest as long as God chooses to leave us on this present earth. Here is a promise from God: Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will HE withhold from them that walk uprightly. We go forward renewing our mind to the Bible, seeing the way God chooses for us to live, and we do those scriptures, growing in the image of Christ the Word. God is our "sun" by HIS Spirit who brings to our mind the way to go. God is also a shield, keeping us from things that would harm us. And we find, in time, God has placed around us those good things which we can enjoy. All we do is keep following various scriptures as they are given to us by the Holy Spirit, thus staying on God's highway. ***** One of the things I enjoy most in this life is my sound system. I love the sound effects of hearing a door open on the right of the TV. Or hearing the clang of the old time elevator doors when they are closed. I seem to hear all the sound effects in movies. I like the sound of musical instruments to duplicate the clarity of the real instrument. Along the way, some very good quality sound equipment came into my life. God just enabled me to meet people who could help me develop a system. I very much wanted to marry. But to marry would not fit in with that which God planned for me to do on this earth. Eventually I saw "that" and agreed with God. Recently I saw an old 1948 movie, "The egg and I". I thought it was a terrible movie but I was also helped immensely by seeing that movie. I saw how terrible it would have been if I had actually married Buddy. He is a farm and ranch person. God is a shield for us. Sometimes God keeps us from getting that which we want, and like a little child we have temper tantrums because God, The Father, did not let us have that. Later we rejoice that we didn't get what we wanted. And we thank God for keeping us from getting that. But when it is good for us to have that thing, God will see that it comes to us. We just continue in HIS Word. It is not that we are trying to get things by doing God's commandments. We do God's word because we have a respect for God and know HIS way is right and best for us. 💥💥💥💥💥 * For writings on additional subjects, click here: Jesus Ministries Exhortations Blog
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    21 mins
  • God makes changes in us and prepares us for that which is to come

    God makes changes in us and prepares us for that which is to come
    Feb 24 2026
    (This podcast was previously published on April 16, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... After we are born again by the Spirit of God, God seals us with HIS Spirit, and HIS Holy Spirit lives in us to show us the will of God as we continue in this present life. Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in Whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Jesus says: John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. He brings to our mind scriptures and concepts to show us the way of God as we deal with our present decisions in this life. John 16:13 Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear, that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come. The Holy Spirit lives inside each believer and HE is always with us to help us in the ways of God. I Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? The Holy Spirit of truth is a great help to us and a great comforter and assurance, especially in times of change. Often even before the change, God prepares us for the change by giving us information from the Holy Spirit to show us things to come. This Podcast tells of such a change and the ways God prepared me by HIS Spirit. ***** I lived many years alone, by myself, in a house in Texas. In 2018, I could still drive my car and go to grocery store and prepare my meals. But I began feeling that I no longer wanted to live alone. I had a large house in Texas, but I began to desire having a smaller living space with fewer responsibilities. On December 6, 2018, I fell at my house in Texas. As the ambulance workers rolled me past the front door of my house, the Holy Spirit brought to my mind the following information. "You'll never see this house again." I knew immediately this was information from God. It did not trouble me at all. I knew God had another plan for me and I was happy to go the way of God for I had experience with God and knew this would be a better way to live. I put my house in Texas up for sale even while I was in the hospital. At that time, I didn't know where I would be going but I believed I would never see the Texas house again. I had no concern at all. A few times in the months before I fell, I thought of moving to Colorado Springs. One of our church women lives there and we work together on the church blog and ministry books, and I thought it would be good to live where she lives, in the same city. (I suspect it was God planting this in my mind to cause me to go in peace when the plan unfolded in the next few months.) John 13:16 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. (God was guiding me step by step into all truth and God was showing me things to come.) During the 2 1/2 months in the rehabilitation hospital in Texas, the plan unfolded for me to move to Colorado Springs and to live in the home of Pam Padgett, a member of the body of Christ. Because of all those things put into my heart by God, I had no doubt at all about this plan. God prepared me for a very big change, and it was really good, and worked out great! I don't think it would have been as easy without the work of the Holy Spirit in showing me step by step the way of God for me. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and the comforter to the people of God. And HE shows us the will of God and that is all that really matters. If we know this is the will of God for us, we go forth with great assurance. Isaiah 55 8 For MY thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways MY ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are MY ways higher than your ways, and MY thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall MY word be that goeth forth out of MY mouth: it shall not return unto ME void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for...
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