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The Bible is full of the ways of the Kingdom! It’s full of what works. The whole Book is God telling us about His higher ways so that we can live in them right now while we’re in the earth. It’s Him teaching us how to operate like He does, so we can always keep learning and increasing, growing and moving up to new levels in Him. God doesn’t want us to spend time in His Word just so we can check a religious box. He wants to share His thoughts with us because He wants to BLESS us. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9). This is what Jesus preached when He was on earth. When He said, “The kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel” (Mark 1:15), He was calling us to a whole new way of life. He was saying, “I’m here and I’m anointed to connect you with THE BLESSINGS of God’s kingdom. So, drop your old, worldly ways, believe and follow Me. Leave the low life of the world behind and walk in the high life of God.” “But Gloria,” you might say, “I’ve already done those things. I repented and believed on Jesus when I was born again.” Yes, but your new birth was just the beginning. It brought you into God’s kingdom, but just like when you were born physically, you start out as a spiritual baby. If you want to grow, you have to keep feeding on the truth of the Word and learning to walk in it. Spiritual growth doesn’t happen automatically. You don’t mature and increase in God just by the passing of time. There are a lot of 50-year-old believers who are still spiritual babies. Sometimes that’s because they haven’t heard any truth. In other cases, it’s because they heard it and spit it out. They said things like, “Yeah, I’ve read in the Bible about tithing, but I don’t believe I can do that. I can’t afford it.” You can’t walk in THE BLESSINGS of God’s kingdom with that kind of attitude. You can’t just sit back in unbelief, do things your own way, and expect a free ride. Ken and I have been living the faith life for more than a half century now and we can tell you: There’s no free ride as long as you’re living here on earth. You have to keep pressing if you want to increase and prosper in God. You must decide that however God says things are to be done, that’s the way you’re going to do them; you’re going to believe and act on whatever He says. That’s the way you operate in Kingdom dominion! That’s the way you live free. You continually press in to God’s way of life. You press through the negative influence of the world, the whining of your flesh, and the lies of the devil, and walk by faith in the Word of God. You fight your way through everything that rises up against you, just like the woman with the issue of blood fought her way through to Jesus, and you lay hold of what belongs to you as a citizen of God’s kingdom! First Timothy 6:11-12 says, “But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” The good fight of faith is a fight you win! It is the victory that overcomes the world! V ******************************************** ********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** 2018 FREE EVENTS KENNETH COPELAND MINISTRIES Aug. 30-Sept. 1 ORLANDO Victory Campaign Rosen Shingle Creek, Florida Sept. 20-22 CHARLOTTE Victory Campaign Charlotte Convention Center North Carolina TEACHING YOU HOW TO USE YOUR FAITH Services & Healing School with Kenneth Copeland Register Now kcm.org/Orlando #OVC18 kcm.org/Charlotte #CVC18 Schedule is subject to change without notice. ********************************************** 30 : BVOV

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