BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Sept 2019

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********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** Abundance in Every Area "True Prosperity" In this five-part series by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, you’ll learn the seven key elements for establishing a firm foundation that can lead you to a life of true prosperity—abundance in every area—God’s supernatural way! Release the power of God in your life today! "True Prosperity" 5 CDs Now $12.99 reg $25 #B190902 kcm.org/mag 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) FREE standard shipping included. Offer price valid until Sept. 30, 2019 ****************************************** * * * * article from p. 29 continues * * * * When you start seeing in the Bible the truth of God’s financial will for you, it will take the limits off. Rather than thinking just in terms of your current bank balance, you’ll think in terms of God’s riches in glory. Rather than basing your prayers on what might seem reasonable under the present circumstances, you’ll base your prayers on what God promised you in the Bible and on His almighty power. When you do that, God can work financial miracles in your life. Ken and I can testify to it. Under any circumstances and in any economy, if you’ll quit reasoning away God’s Word and His leadings and just believe Him and obey, He can get you anything you need. One time in the early years of our ministry, for instance, we were believing for the money to go on television for the first time. The amount we needed to pay for the equipment and airtime was way beyond our means. Our ministry income was just about enough for us to get by on and at the time we had very few financial assets. The only big thing we owned was the ministry airplane. It represented three-quarters of the assets of our ministry. Ken needed it to maintain his preaching schedule, yet while we were believing for those TV funds the Lord told Ken to give the plane away—to sow it into another ministry as a seed. Initially, I wasn’t too thrilled about that. Ken had believed God for the cash to buy that airplane and it was vital to our ministry. So, from a natural perspective, giving it away would put us in an even more impossible situation. Not only would we need $50,000 extra for TV, we’d need an additional $150,000 to buy another airplane. We had no earthly way of getting that kind of money! I knew Ken had heard from the Lord though, so I got on board with His plan. We planted the plane as a seed and believed God for a harvest. Sure enough, within two weeks, it came in. A woman who’d recently inherited some money walked into our office with a check for exactly $200,000. Our ministry had never received a gift anywhere near that amount before! So to us it was an amazing miracle. To God though, it was no problem at all. He wasn’t wringing His hands wondering how He was going to be able to get that much money together. He wasn’t up in heaven saying, “I don’t know if I can handle this.” He can handle anything because He owns everything. He created it all and He can give it to whomever He pleases. Just think about what He did for the Israelites in the wilderness. He sent them manna out of heaven every morning, six mornings a week for 40 years! (He sent them a double portion on Saturday so they wouldn’t have to gather it on Sunday.) When they got tired of manna and cried for meat, He told Moses He would send that to them too. Moses couldn’t wrap his mind around how God was going to manage that. “Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them?” he asked. “Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short?” (Numbers 11:22-23). I like that question! It’s a good one to remember. Especially at times when our needs, desires and dreams seem to dwarf our current bank balance, we should all ask ourselves, “Is the Lord’s hand shortened that He can’t get me the car I need, or that better job I’ve been wanting? Is the Lord’s hand shortened so much that He can only provide for me according to the limitations of earth and not according to His riches in glory?” The answer is obvious. No, the Lord’s hand isn’t shortened! He can do the impossible. He can do the unreasonable. He’s the God who, as Ephesians 3:20 says, “is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.” The God who, as the "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition" puts it, “is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams].” Let this sink in: If you can ask it; God can do exceedingly more than that. If you can hope for it; He can do much more. If you can dream it, desire it and pray for it; He can do it and infinitely beyond. So, look to Him as your Source. Tithe, sow, give Him some words of faith to work with, and then get ready to be greatly BLESSED financially and to become a greater BLESSING. Expect God to prosper you in ways that are literally out of this world, because whatever it takes, He can get it done! V 30 : BVOV

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