BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Talk to God. Talk to your spirit. Remind the devil of what God, in His WORD, has said about you. Has a problem tried to raise itself up before you? Don’t talk about the problem. Don’t try to figure out what you can do about the problem. Say those things your heavenly Father has said are in His heart to do for you. Whether it’s a mountain of debt, sickness or fear, Jesus said you are to have the God kind of faith that speaks to the mountain and orders it cast into the sea. Speak The WORD of God to the problem and rest in what He has said about it. I don’t care what situations are before you right now, your faith will see you through. The only way the devil can get his hands on them is that you let him. And you do that by letting go of the promises of your heavenly Father, who cares about you and will give you whatever it takes to succeed in Him. Take Your Place God is pleased when you access the riches of heaven by the only means possible—faith. He gets pleasure when you speak His WORD in faith to those mountains in your life. He is pleased when you stand, unmoved, until situations and conditions get in line with His WORD. Take your rightful place of being seated with Him in heaven as Ephesians 2:6 says. By faith, receive that you’ve become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and walk in righteousness where He walks (2 Corinthians 5:21). By faith let God help you to excel at being as healthy and as prosperous as He desires you to be. Remember: The challenge before you is not getting God to desire to fellowship with you and meet your needs. The challenge is to stir up your faith to receive all that God has for you. Let faith settle the issue of what God desires you to have. Stay connected to the supply line of God’s provision. By faith, let your heavenly Father lavish the provisions of His love on you. Nothing would please Him more. V ******************************* ******************************* Called to Spiritual Fatherhood by Pastor George Pearsons Every man is called to be a father. That is quite a statement The LORD gave me several years ago. You might be asking, “Every man a father?” Absolutely! The LORD wasn’t implying that all men needed to have biological children. Rather, He was saying that all Christian men—especially ministers of the gospel—are called of God to be spiritual fathers in the faith. Right this minute, there are people in your life who are desperate for father figures. They are looking for godly men to be godly examples. I’d been pastoring for almost 14 years before the idea of being a spiritual father to others became a reality for me. I was preparing the Father’s Day message in June 2006, when a “great awakening” took place in my heart. The LORD revealed to me that there were people in my congregation who were looking to me as a “spiritual” father. I had become a “daddy” in the faith to them. They were seeing me as a father in the same way my son, Jeremy, and my daughter, Aubrey, look to me as their father. BVOV : 9

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