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********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** Hear the Word you need from ministers you can trust! Watch Jerry Savelle on bvovn® BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY NETWORK REAL. LIFE. FAITH.® ON: dish® CHANNEL 265 bvovn.com apple tv® 4th Generation Roku® YouTube® amazon fire TV Send us your testimonies about how BVOVN has blessed you. KCM.ORG/TESTIFY ******************************************** * * * * * article from p 9 continues * * * * In other words, “No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this” ("The Message"). God planned this well in advance just for us. As Oral Roberts used to say at the end of his broadcasts, “Something good is about to happen to you.” That’s what we’re expecting—something immeasurably good! God Is Working Behind the Scenes When my granddaughter Cassidy was born, I sat down with my CPA and set up a trust fund with her name on it. Ever since then, I’ve contributed to it. Today, as an adult, she’s able to tap into that reserve. It was prearranged, laid up with her name on it. It belongs to her, not me. I’m simply the one who provided it for her. God has a reserve like that for all of His children—but His is even better. It’s full of His goodness. We’ve had previews into what’s there, but we haven’t experienced all of it because we haven’t yet reached maturity. The Body of Christ hasn’t matured enough to handle what’s in the reserve, and God knows better than to give riches to children. He has been waiting for us to grow up and mature in who we are in Christ. The good news is that while we’ve been growing in Him, God has been working. Ephesians 3:9 says, “My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along” ("MSG"). God has been working behind the scenes, doing things in secret. He’s been sowing into a reserve that’s going to manifest “superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]” (Ephesians 3:20, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition"). Are you ready for it? Are you ready to dream big? I mean really big? I learned to dream big years ago when Brother Roberts joined me for a business meeting in Africa. We were scheduled to meet with a country’s president, but he had an emergency. So instead, we met with the vice president and other members of the president’s cabinet. We were excited to talk to them about building a medical facility. I placed architectural plans on the table and explained to the vice president that Jerry Savelle Ministries was going to fund the entire construction. Brother Roberts had agreed that he would fully equip the hospital and staff it with doctors and nurses from Oral Roberts University. All we needed was the land. “And when it’s complete,” I told the vice president, “we’ll donate it to the nation. This will provide jobs for your people because we’ll hire locals to oversee the construction and build it.” As I was making my presentation, Brother Roberts sat quietly, writing on a napkin. Then, to my surprise, he wadded it up and tossed it over the end of the table. He grabbed another napkin and did it again. I tried to not get distracted, but then he did it a third time: Write, wad, toss. Finally, after scrawling on one last napkin, Brother Roberts nudged my shoulder and handed it to me. “Read this.” “Brother Roberts, the vice president is talking,” I said, forcing a smile. “Can this wait?” “No. It can’t wait.” I handed it back to him. “Brother Roberts, the vice president is talking. This is rude. I’ll read it when the meeting’s over.” “It won’t wait. Read it now.” I nodded and turned back to the vice president. “Excuse me, sir. Brother Roberts wants me to read something. I’ll be right back with you.” Stepping aside and taking the napkin, I looked at what he’d written. It was complete gibberish. It said, STREBORLARO. I gave it back to him. “Brother Roberts, I don’t have a clue what this says.” “Study it. Read it until you understand.” I read, STREBORLARO. “I don’t know what it says. Would you please tell me? This is an important meeting.” He pointed to the napkin. “That’s ORAL ROBERTS spelled backward.” I raised my eyebrows. “This is what you’ve been working on for the last 35 minutes? ‘Oral Roberts’ spelled backward? Are you bored?” He said, “Yes. You bore me. He bores me. Everybody in this room bores me…because you think too small!” Then he said, “You can’t build what you just told him you’re going to build on that amount of land. You need to ask him for 10 times that amount.” I said, “I feel led of the Lord to have you ask him for it.” So, Brother Roberts turned to the vice president and said, “That is not enough land. Give us 10 times the amount that he asked for.” And he did! 10 : BVOV

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