The faith movement churches: "Word of Faith"

(This podcast was previously published on February 15, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... I was in the faith movement churches from 1977 to 1982. I loved it. Faith is one of my favorite subjects. But in 1979, God gave me a terrifying dream and by that God brought me out of that church group. This is the story of that which God showed me about the Faith Movement. I love scripture. I love the Word of God by the Holy Spirit. Nothing is more exciting to me and nothing is as valuable to me on this present earth as is following God by HIS Spirit. In 1975, I was born again. Immediately God began teaching me to meditate on scripture and to do those instructions of specific 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. And God had taught me from the time I was born again to ask HIM for 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. I was applying the above scripture to everything in my life ... and it worked greatly. * When I read the Bible, I prayed for wisdom before reading and God was faithful to teaching me scriptures as I read. (I even wrote: "Pray for wisdom", on each book of the Bible so I wouldn't forget to do this.) * I owned a small business in Dallas, and I was careful to pray for wisdom before I bought merchandise and in running the business and making decisions. (In the 4 years that I had the business after becoming a Christian and after learning to pray for wisdom, every item I bought for the business sold, and I never had a sale price to rid myself of unwanted items for everything sold.) And God taught me the following scripture: John 5:30 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. I was quite sure that if Jesus, the Son of God, could do nothing without hearing from God, The Father, that I would not be able to do anything without hearing from God! So I prayed for wisdom and prayed for God to stop me if I was going the wrong way. I really thought that is what all Christians were doing. I was wrong. At one point, our Bible teacher at Word of Faith said to me, "You were never like the people at Word of Faith. They talked about faith but you lived faith." On this Podcast, I will share some of those things God taught me about the Faith Movement churches. ***** The poison gas dream: 1979 I was asleep in the night when God gave me the following dream. I went into a room where a man was speaking to a group of people. I sat down and began to listen. A second man rushed in and said, "Stop ... It's too late ... Can't you see? ... It's already begun." He disappeared and the first man resumed speaking. No one in the room showed any interest at all in seeing "what had already begun." But I was interested, so I looked out the windows and was very shocked at that which I saw when I looked. There was a tall pole with a yellow civil-defense type speaker on top of the pole. Out of the speaker a poisonous gas was coming and it was coming directly toward those of us sitting in that room. I knew it would kill us. (The speaker that was supposed to warn us was being used to kill us.) I looked at the man who was sitting next to me. He had a big grin on his face and he was staring directly at the man speaking and he seemed to be paying attention. But then I saw this man was a corpse. He was already dead. Then I looked at the other people sitting in the room. They, too, were already dead. And as I sat there among them, I began to feel drowsy and I knew the gas coming from the speaker was killing me also as I sat there. I had no idea what this dream meant. But in 1982, God showed me the meaning of this dream. I went to church at Word of Faith on a Wednesday night. Our pastor, Robert Tilton, was speaking. I looked at the man who was sitting next to me and was very shocked to see this man was the dead man in the poison gas dream. I looked around the room and the other people in the congregation seemed to be the people in that dream. I got up immediately and went into the ladies room and began praying. I said to God: "I believe YOU are showing me to leave this church so I am going to get in my car and drive away. But if YOU want me to come back to this church, I will." God did not want me to come back to this church group and with that God began to show me problems with the Faith Movement. *** The problems: * No one talked about the will of God. We were supposed to find a scripture to "...