BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

• The mountain in our life moves when we “have faith in God” and speak to it ourselves. “For…whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith” (Mark 11:22-23). • We bring heaven to earth not by complaining about the things down here that are giving us problems, but by having the “spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak” (2 Corinthians 4:13). Releasing God’s Creative Power “Well,” someone might say, “you faith people are just extreme when it comes to that believing and speaking business. You think God will just do whatever you say.” No, we don’t. We think He’ll do what we say by faith; and faith comes by hearing the Word of God. If God hasn’t said a particular thing is His will, we don’t have any basis for expecting Him to do it. But if He’s said it, we can believe it, speak it and it will come to pass. Why? Because it’s His Word, and “the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power…active, operative, energizing, and effective” (Hebrews 4:12, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition"). God’s Word contains His creative power! It contained that power when it first came out of His mouth, and if we’ll get it inside us and let it abide in our hearts, it will come out of our mouths with the same kind of creative power and faith it had when God first spoke it. Think of it like a cycle. God sends down His Word to us, then we renew our minds with it and learn to think about things the way He does. As we learn to think like Him we begin to talk like Him. We believe and speak His Words, and they produce His results. "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says 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. For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it" (Isaiah 55:8-11, "AMPC"). This is how you get rid of sickness when it comes and tries to attach itself to your body. You think about it and talk to it like God does. Rather than just accepting it, you stand on what the Word says about healing and say to that sickness, “Get out of here, in the Name of Jesus! You’re part of the curse of the law, and Jesus has redeemed me from that curse” (Deuteronomy 28:61; Galatians 3:13). “He bore all sickness, so I could be set free from it, and by His stripes I am healed” (Isaiah 53:4-5). If, after you say those things, the symptoms don’t immediately go away, you just stick with the Word. You walk by faith and not by sight, continue to say what God said, and act like it’s true, because it is true! If you’ll do that, eventually the natural circumstances will come into line and those symptoms of sickness will leave your body. “But Gloria, what if I’m struggling with something other than sickness and I don’t know what God’s Word says about it?” Then find out! Spend time reading your Bible and listening to good, Word-based, faith-building preaching. Seek God in the Word and in prayer until you know what His will is and what promises He’s made that you can apply to that situation. Then receive them as your own, get them into your heart in abundance, and keep saying them by faith until they manifest. This is how God intends for all of us, as believers, to live every day! He intends for us to make His Word our No. 1 priority and spend time in it daily. He intends for us to find out what He has said about every area of our lives and meditate on it continually. For as Jesus said, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you” (John 15:7). The Word that’s abiding in you is the Word that talks to you. It’s the Word that comes up in you when the world or the devil tries to rob you of your Kingdom privileges. When the devil attacks your finances, if the first thing that comes up in you to say is, “My God supplies all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus,” you know that Word is abiding in you because it’s what came out of your mouth. If the first thing that comes up in you is, “We’re not going to be able to pay our bills,” it’s a sign you don’t have what God said about that abiding in you yet. 28 : BVOV

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