# 2 Life changing concepts shown to me by God through the Holy Spirit and the scriptures

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...    I was born again on August 5, 1975.   Shortly after that, I was asleep in the night when God transported me into heaven, similar to the example given in 2 Corinthians 12.   I was with God and Christ and the Holy Spirit.  I saw no images.  It was a spiritual experience.  At that time I was "merged into the body of Jesus", made one with the word of God, God and the Holy Spirit witnessing.   A few nights later, the exact same thing happened to me again.   I thought this happened to all who were born again.  When I found that was not the case, I didn't know why this had happened to me.   Later I was reading a book entitled Exodus, and the author said sometime when God has a special calling for someone HE will often cause a "special" thing to happen like Moses and the burning bush.   For the next 5 years God prepared me for the ministry I was to do on this earth, apostle and prophet.   God showed me apostles have an anointing to deal with scripture and they will try to cause churches to abide by the NT scriptures.   Prophets deliver messages, especially corrections, to the church people and the ministers.  Prophets are often also shown things to come.   💥💥💥   In preparing me during those years, God gave me several instructions for me to follow personally.  One of the first things God showed me was for me to get out of debt and stay out of debt.   God used this scripture with this instruction:  Romans 13:8  Owe no man anything.   💥💥💥   💥   After I was born again in 1975, God said to me, "Get out of debt and stay out of debt."    At the time I heard this word from God, I owned a small business, American Indian Arts, in Dallas, Texas.  I set about immediately to pay off all my debt.  I owed $6,000 to a woman who had loaned me money to purchase merchandise for my business. She did not require interest on her loan.  She asked me to allow her to buy merchandise from my shop at my cost which I was pleased to do.   I was not born again at the time I borrowed this money.   After I was born again, I saw this verse of scripture and set about to do this scripture:   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?   So far as I knew, the woman who loaned me money was an unbeliever.  I wanted to pay her what I owed her as soon as possible and that would set me totally out of debt.   First when we hear a word from God and believe God spoke that Word to us, we purpose in our hearts to do that word.   💥💥💥   I prayed immediately asking God to help me to get out of debt and I asked God to give me wisdom to get out of debt based on the following promise of God from the New Testament Bible.   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.   💥💥💥   God had taught me to pray for wisdom concerning the items I purchased for the shop and to be led by the Holy Spirit concerning each item I purchased.   I went on a buying trip to New Mexico, USA.  In Santa Fe, I visited a friend who owned a shop where he dealt with American Indian arts.   I sold mostly jewelry at that time and some pottery.   He had an old Navajo rug displayed in his shop.  I found I just couldn't walk away from that rug.  It was priced at $500.  Finally I bought it.  (God had been teaching me to purchase items that interested me and that I could pay for in cash.)   I took the rug to Albuquerque to a woman who specialized in appraising Navajo rugs.  She said, "Most of the old rugs are worthless.  But you lucked out.  This is a fine example of a Navajo rug and it will go up in price.  It is worth $1500 now but you should price this rug where it will not sell, for this is a rug that will go up greatly in price in the future."   The first day I returned to Dallas with the merchandise, a man called me wanted to see jewelry.  I had that rug rolled up and lying next to the wall.  He said, "What's that?"  I replied,  "It's an old Navajo rug which I brought back with me yesterday from my buying trip."  He said, "Let me see it." I said, "Oh ... I don't think you would want that."  He said, "Well let me see it."     I rolled the rug out on the floor.   He walked around it looking carefully at the rug.     Then he said, "How much."   I replied:  "$5,000".   He said:  "I'll take it."  and he began writing out a check!   I was horrified.  I was an honest merchant.  I did not overcharge my customers.  I began trying to talk him out of buying that rug since I knew it was overpriced. But he was determined to purchase that rug.   So I said to him, "Here is what I will do.  You take the rug and I will hold your check for one week without cashing it.  If you decide for any reason you to do want the rug, bring it back and I will give you your check back."   I never saw that man again.  So I deposited his check in my bank and put $1,000