BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

* * * * article from p. 29 concludes * * * * This is the reason God said, “The just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17). If you cultivate faith by attending to the Word, it will be there whenever you need it. You won’t have to wait for someone to come pray for you to get a miracle. You’ll be able to tap into the supernatural power of heaven yourself and receive healing (or whatever else you need from God) anytime, anywhere. To get to that place though, you must keep growing up spiritually. You must develop your faith so that instead of going from crisis to crisis and always needing a miracle, you can live all the time on the harvest you’re reaping from the spiritual seed you’ve sown. Ken and I first learned to do this in the area of finances. When we first started walking with God, that was our biggest problem. Our finances were a disaster! We were in so much debt we couldn’t see any natural way we could ever pay it off, and our income was literally below the poverty line, so we were always in need of a miracle. Once we decided to put God first in our lives, however, things began to change. We moved to Tulsa so Ken could become a student at Oral Roberts University and we started learning about the Word and faith. While I stayed at home with our children, Ken became a copilot for Brother Roberts. One day in one of Brother Roberts’ meetings, Ken heard him preach about sowing financial seed by faith. Brother Roberts pointed out that 2 Corinthians 9:6 says, “He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.” Ken caught the revelation in that word. He saw how the kingdom of God works in that area, so he came home and said to me, “We’re going to become partners with Brother Roberts and sow $10 a month into his ministry!” I hadn’t been in those meetings. I hadn’t heard the Word Ken heard, so I didn’t have the faith he had. To me, giving $10 a month looked impossible. I thought, How in the world can we do that? We’re already so far behind financially we don’t have enough to get by. I trusted Ken though and got on board anyway, and we began to do it. We became partners with Brother Roberts and started pressing in to what the Word says about prosperity. We began to study scriptures about it and listen to Kenneth E. Hagin’s tapes about how faith works. What happened? By the end of the year we were out of debt. Just imagine! A year earlier, I’d never even had a serious thought about getting out of debt. I didn’t even think that was a possibility. I thought if God worked a miracle it might be possible for us to make the payments we owed, but I assumed we’d always be in debt because that’s how I grew up. In my family, debt was just a fact of life. Once Ken and I began sowing God’s kingdom truths about prosperity into our hearts, however, our old thoughts began to change. We began to believe what God said and get over on His system—His way of doing and being right—and we’ve been debt free and increasing in financial BLESSING ever since. You can have the same experience! You can sow to the spirit and reap a heavenly harvest in any area of life. You can take Jesus at His Word just like Ken and I did, and believe that He meant it when He said: • “It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). • “I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me” (Luke 22:29). • “For behold, the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts] and among you [surrounding you]” (Luke 17:21, "AMPC"). It doesn’t matter how bad your circumstances might look right now, there’s not a circumstance in this world the kingdom of God can’t change. It will produce supernatural BLESSING for you in any situation. So, if you’re facing natural impossibilities, find out what God says about them in His Book. Fill your heart and your mouth with His Words and walk in the light of them. Determine as never before to seek first the kingdom of God where all things are possible, and step into the abundant life of BLESSING He’s prepared for you! V 30 : BVOV

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