On November 1, 2017, on our blog, I wrote the following words:
"It helps a lot to remember our God created heaven and earth.
How hard can any of our needs be for HIM to provide?"
At that time, I had been reviewing the ways God had led me in operating a small business and later how HE led me in running a ministry.
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In 1981, a friend of mine, a vice-president at Braniff International airlines said to me, "Joan, I've never seen anyone run a corporation like you do. Every place I've been, we were taught never use your own money. Borrow money and use other people's money to make money."
About 3 months after she said this to me Braniff closed their doors at midnight and grounded all planes and went completely out of business. She and everyone else lost their jobs.
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I've seen ministers try to go out into all the world and preach the gospel, begging people to give money to pay for their works.
God showed me to go in a completely different way, first in business and later in ministry.
As a result of going this way, we have no debt, we have no fleshly striving, we go all over the world each day sharing the word of God but in ways we never before imagined.
Along the way our little church group has diminished in size. Offerings have become less also but we have no lack in any way and even have an abundance, above our needs.
It doesn't seem possible that this could be the case but it is much like God sending Elijah to be sustained by a widow woman who was getting ready to die. Instead, the cruse of oil and the barrel of meal did not fail and through the draught caused by God they continued.
And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which HE spake by Elijah.
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This book is a personal story of the faithfulness of God in my life to sustain me through business years and later through more than 40-years in ministry while providing abundantly for me and all our needs without having to ask people for money and while giving us ways to communicate with people all over this world without cost to anyone.
It is a miraculous story of the working of God and the faithfulness of God and should inspire all Christians and cause them to have faith in God.
Joan Boney
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