I do not ever remember a time that I did not believe in Jesus. When I was 5 years old, I remember being in a Sunday school class and the teacher asked me if I knew who Jesus was. I said, "No." She proceeded to tell me and after explaining that he was the son of God, I said, "Oh yeah, I know who you are talking about." I knew who Jesus was, I just did not know him by that name. He has always been with me. I was baptized by my father when I was 8. Being a Mormon was the same to me as being an American. You were what you were. A turning point came into my life when I was 11. My sister asked me If I knew what was wrong with the Mormon church. I said, "No." At that time in my life, I did not think anything was wrong with the church. She said, "What's wrong with the church is that too many Mormons are not Christians." I said, "In that case, from now on, I am going to be a Christian first and a Mormon second." Shorting after that, as I went to bed one night, the Lord told me to pray. I had been taught to pray in church, but I had never done it on my own before, so thinking about doing it on my own frightened me. I struggled with my feelings for a while knowing that I should pray, but being a fraid to do so. Finally the Lord said, "Analyze your fear." I did, and realized I had nothing to fear, and I got out of bed and said a prayer. I felt so good about praying on my own that I decided I was going to pray every day from then on.
After I started praying, the Lord taught me how to pray and what to pray for, and he taught me to meditate and he began to teach me great an wonderful things about his kingdom, many of which are in the scritures but many are not.
My father was on stake mission when I was a teenager, and studiying the missionary lessons, I got a testimony of the organization of the church. While bearing testimony of Joseph Smith, The Holy Ghost bore witness to me that Joseph Smith was a true prophet. In spite of this, I was not blind to the fact that many leaders of the church were not living up to the things that Jesus was teaching me. I had a wise bishop who told me to forgive the leaders of the church and remember that the church is "perfect" but the leaders are not. I settled easily into the mainstream of the church.
I went on a mission at 19 and one of the things that bothered me the most about the mission is that we spent too much time selling the church and we did not speak enough about Jesus. I invented extra lessons to give to people about faith and the mission of Jesus and got in trouble for it.
After my mission, I went into the Navy. While in the Navy, I met my wife and we got married in the Oakland temple. A year later, we had our first child. Six weeks later, I was on a cruise to the western Pacific. I did not want to go. Before leaving, my wife and I prayed that something would come up that I would not have to go. The Lord did not answer our prayers. I was heart broken. I cried and Prayed, "Lord, why are you doing this to me? Why didn't you answer my prayers?" After a while the Lord said, "If you want me to answer you, you will have to listen." I calmed down and cleared my mind of all other thoughts and listened. Then he said, "You need to repent." Then he reminded me of all the little sins I had committed in my life that I had put off repenting of because I thought they were too little to worry about. I knew I needed to repent. I repented. As soon as I asked to be forgiven of my sins, Jesus forgave me and I was released from the burden of my guilt and I was a free man. I was born again. I learned that God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance. That happened in 1973
Being forgiven of sin is called justification. The next goal is Sanctification. The Lord sanctifies a person by testing him in all the covenants he makes in the temple. It took the Lord 10 years to sanctify me. In November 1983, the Lord called me to the temple and sealed me by his Holy Spirit of Promise and made my calling and election sure.
As part of one of the test I had to pass through, the Lord required that I challenge the leaders of the church on certain points of doctrine. I almost got excommunicated for it. I learned then that the leaders of the church were not really inspired men of God. I was really tempted to leave the church at that time but the Lord told me that I still needed the church. He was not done testing me.
After making my calling and election sure, the Lord called me to the land of Zion, here in Independence Missouri.
The Lord said, "No man comes to this testimony of me without persecution." It took 8 years and in 1991, I was excommunicated from the church. The biggest question on my mind was, "How can men be in the service of God so many years and not be sanctified?" The reason for my excommuncation was that I confronted them with the question and instead of answering me they excommunicated me. I turned my back on the church. After that my wife kicked me out and took the kids with her. I was out of the church, but my relationship with the Lord was stronger than even. I was glad to be excommuncated from the church, glad to be found worthy to be persecuted for the testimony of Jesus.
I knew someday I would have to go back and confront the leaders of the church, but I did not know what I was going to confront them with. At the time of my excommunication, I was not ready to confront the leaders of the church and it has taken almost twenty years to prepare. My preparation started in earnest in 2004. The Lord called me to full time ministry. He told me to fast for 40 days. I started fasting on the 19th of December 2004 and ended on the 29th of January 2005. For the last 6 years, I have been teaching the gospel to the poor and healing the sick, casting out devils and I even raised the dead. There was a little boy who had fallen from a third story window and died on impact. I was the first to find him and I immediately put my hands on him and in the name of Jesus and by the power of the priesthood, I called him back to life. He came back to life and now he is perfectly healed.
The biggest obstacle to my ministry is unbelief, created by idolatry. The people I minister to are hispanics. Most are catholics. Catholics have lots of idols. All idols are of the devil. Any statue of a god figure is an idol. Not long ago, a friend of mine was invited to the Independence visitor's center by the Missionaries. He came back telling me of the idol, called Christus, the Leaders have set up there. I remembered that idol being in Salt Lake. The first time I saw it, I did not think of it as idolatry, but having had much expereince with people who are caught up in idolatry, I instantly knew what was wrong with the church. I thought about that idol and suddenly recognized the face on the idol. It is the face of Lucifer, the devil. Not only is the church into idolatry, but the idol they have choosen to be the logo of the church is none other than the devil himself.
Now I know my mission. I have to go back and confront the leaders of the church and bring down those idols and rid the church of idolatry. I am looking for helpers. If you have the testimony of Jesus and if you believe that the priesthood you have received is true, I invite you to help me get this plague out of the church. Something you can do now to help is to write to the Presiding Bishop and demand that the president of the church be called before a common council and tried for Idolatry and unrighteous dominion. I have written many letters to the leaders of the church calling them to repentance, but I know that I will have to go personally. Jesus said that President Monson will be removed from his office before next October conference.
Thank you for publishing this.
Joseph Haney