BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Those are the words of the Master Himself, and He didn’t teach, as religious tradition does, that heaven will determine what’s going to happen on this planet. No, He put earth first. He said that when we, as the Church, bind or loose something here, then heaven will back us. He said that when we take Jesus at His WORD and get into agreement with God and with each other, even if there are only a couple of us doing it, He’s there in the midst of us to carry out the agreement. In other words, the carrying out is His part. The agreeing is ours. To truly agree by faith though, we must start believing instead of just hoping. We must take a firm, solid stand and say, where the United States is concerned, “This nation is going God’s way and no other!” Red Words Backed by the Blood of Jesus “But it doesn’t look like things are going God’s way, Brother Copeland.” So what? We’re not going by what it looks like. We’re going by the red words that are recorded in the Bible. We’re believing what Jesus said in Matthew 18, because His WORDs are more powerful than anything else in the world. They’re backed by His own blood and they will literally bring heaven down upon this nation, if we’ll stand on them by faith and persistently pray. We do have to pray though, and believe God. We can’t just leave everything up to a few specially dedicated intercessors. Every believer has a part to play in the unfolding of God’s plan for our nation, and we’re all connected to it. The welfare of our families and homes are connected to it. Our finances are connected to it. This is not just some political thing! Politics are involved, and God has instructed us to pray first of all for leaders and those in governmental authority (1 Timothy 2:1-2). But what this is ultimately about is bringing forth the most world-changing, impactful outpouring of the Holy Ghost and fire to ever hit this planet. At this very moment, that outpouring has already started. Great and marvelous things are happening all over the world! Last year, I preached a meeting in Peru that was unlike any we’ve ever had anywhere. We were in a large public arena and while the meetings were going on one day, in a hospital two blocks away a woman with thyroid cancer was being examined by her doctor. Right in the middle of the examination she said, “I’m on fire! I’m on fire!” “What do you mean?” said the doctor. “What’s the matter with you?” “I don’t know,” she said. “I just feel like I’m burning.” The doctor began examining her again and found the cancer was gone. That woman wasn’t even born again. But after the doctor released her that day, she walked out of the hospital, saw our billboard advertisement, and came into the meeting. By the time it was over, she was saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit. I’m telling you, this is big stuff! The end-time move of God is on, and we’re in it. If we want to see it flourish in our nation though, we need to include it in our prayer life every day. We need to get so passionate about it that we pray like the Apostle Paul did. He wrote in Galatians 4:19, “I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.” How do you travail in prayer? You do it in the Holy Ghost. You get over in the spirit by spending time praising and worshiping God. You take your stand on what He said in His WORD, persist in putting Him in remembrance of it, and regardless of what you see in the natural you refuse to let the devil talk you out of it. * * * article continues on next page * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * God’s will has always been for His people to experience the blessings of heaven on earth. Deuteronomy 11:18, 21 * It gives Him joy to surround you with His goodness. Psalm 35:27 * The more you learn to do things God’s way the more heavenly your life will be. Isaiah 55:9 * God’s Word is where you find the wisdom you need to experience heaven on earth. Proverbs 2:1, 5 8 : BVOV

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