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********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** Discover the principles that establish the kingdom of God in your life. In Gloria Copeland’s powerful series "The Kingdom of God—Days of Heaven on Earth," she shows you these principles and how to apply them. Order today—get out of the world’s system and move on over into God’s system. 5 CDs #B190604 $10.99 reg $20 Single MP3 disc #B190603 $7.99 reg $15 FREE standard shipping included. Offer prices valid until June 30, 2019 kcm.org/mag 1-800-600-7395 U.S. only ***************************************** * * * * article from p. 27 continues * * * * He made a covenant of BLESSING with Abraham and his descendants. He told them that if they’d do things His way, their days and the days of their children would be “as the days of heaven upon the earth” (Deuteronomy 11:21). Although they couldn’t yet be born again under that covenant (because Jesus hadn’t come), God still made a way for them to live in THE BLESSING. He told them how to enjoy a life of abundance, with no vexation, care, lack, sickness or disease. That’s what God wanted for them, and it’s what He promised those who would obey Him, all the way through the Old Covenant. What has God promised us in the New Covenant? Even more! He’s provided for us through Jesus “a better covenant…established upon better promises” (Hebrews 8:6). We have all the BLESSINGS promised in the Old Testament, plus we’ve been made partakers of God’s very own nature. We’ve been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:13-14). • We’re citizens of heaven. (Philippians 3:20, "New Living Translation") • We have the written Word of God plus we have the laws of the New Covenant written in our hearts. (Hebrews 8:10) • We have the indwelling Holy Spirit to teach and empower us. (John 14:26) • We’ve been given the Name of Jesus, the Name above all names, to use in prayer and spiritual warfare. (Ephesians 3:14-15) • We don’t have to wait until we die to walk in heavenly victory. “We are more than conquerors through him that loved us,” right now! (Romans 8:37) If the Israelites could have days of heaven on earth under the Old Covenant, how much more can you and I as born-again believers! A DEFEATED FOE “But what about the devil?” someone might ask. “Isn’t he still running around causing trouble?” Yes, but he’s a defeated foe. He’s been reduced to zero by Jesus’ life, death and resurrection (1 Corinthians 2:6). The devil doesn’t have the authority to tell us we can’t have heaven breaking out in our lives. He’s under our feet, he doesn’t have the right to tell us what to do. We ought to be telling him what to do, not the other way around. When he tries to put some part of the curse on us, we ought to be saying, “No, devil! Get out of my house. You’re not bringing the curse in here. Jesus redeemed me from it and I’m not taking it back!” In addition, we ought to be saying yes to God so that His will can be done in our lives on earth as in heaven. We ought to be operating according to the plan He outlined in Deuteronomy 11 when He said to the Israelites: "Hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul…. Lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul…speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up…. Diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him" (verses 13, 18-19, 22). “But Gloria, those are Old Testament instructions!” True, but Jesus gave them to us again in the New Testament. He summed them up in Matthew 6 by saying, “Seek (aim at and strive after) first of all [God’s] kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides” (verse 33, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition"). 28 : BVOV

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