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Navajo Nation’s Western Fair 1-480-539-5285 Oct. 29 Autaugaville, Ala. Greater Glory Canaan Land canaanland.com Newark, Texas : Dec. 31 New Year’s Eve Service emic.org Schedule is subject to change without notice. Contact the host church for details! ************************************** * * * * article from p. 7 continues * * * * Your imagination is a powerful thing, and God is the One who gave it to you. So don’t be afraid of it. Let Him train you to use it for good. Instead of just reading a few healing verses on the run, fellowship with The LORD over them and let Him help you dig into them. Chew on those verses and picture what they’re saying until suddenly one day you say, “Yes! I see it! I’m healed!” Gloria refers to that as the moment when faith boils over. It’s the moment when faith flows out of your heart with such force that it drives out all doubt. “But Brother Copeland,” someone might say, “I know the healing scriptures by heart. I can practically quote them all by memory, and my faith for healing isn’t boiling over.” That’s because faith doesn’t come by knowing and remembering. It comes “by hearing, and hearing…the word of God” (Romans 10:17). It comes from actually feeding on The WORD. You can know what a potato tastes like, but that’s not the same thing as feeding on it. You can remember what you had for lunch yesterday, but that memory won’t nourish you today. The same applies to The WORD. While knowing The WORD and memorizing it are wonderful, that’s not the same as feeding on it. To feed on it, you have to do what Proverbs 4 says and attend to it, by looking at it and listening to it. You have to take it into yourself anew and make the decision, I choose to believe this. Something happens inside your spirit when you do that. When you decide to believe something, particularly when you say it out loud, it gets your spiritual juices flowing, so to speak. It’s like when you decide to eat something in the natural. Once you make the decision, your taste buds wake up. Your mouth starts watering and your digestive juices start flowing. You don’t have to tell your body to do those things—it’s an involuntary reaction. Likewise, when you decide to believe The WORD and say it, your spirit involuntarily kicks into gear. It gets ready to produce the force of faith and release the power of God that’s resident in The WORD so that word can become life and health to you. Can it really be that simple? you might wonder. Sure. That’s what God intended. He never meant for healing to be hard to receive. We’re the ones who made it hard with our religious traditions. Religion messed up God’s system by saying things like healing isn’t always God’s will and that He sometimes makes us sick to teach us something. But nothing could be further from the truth. Jesus purchased our healing when He went to the cross just as surely as He purchased our salvation. Through His death and Resurrection, He “redeemed us from the curse” (Galatians 3:13) and that curse is threefold. It includes spiritual death, sickness and poverty. The devil is the author of all those things. He’s the author of all human suffering, all disease, all pain, all stress, and Jesus defeated him. He destroyed the works of the devil and secured for us a threefold Redemption. A Redemption that includes eternal life, healing and prosperity. By providing that Redemption, God settled the fact once and for all that healing is His will for you. It’s already yours in Christ. All you have to do to receive it is follow God’s prescription. So, go ahead and do it. Treat The WORD of God like you would a life-saving prescription from your doctor. Don’t just leave it sitting on your nightstand. Don’t just look at it now and then and say, “I wonder why that’s not working for me?” Take it as prescribed. Attend to it. Incline your ear to it. Keep it before your eyes, in the midst of your heart, and in your mouth. Believe and declare, not what you see or what you feel, but the words of God. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh! V 8 : BVOV

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