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********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** Find a place of abundance and "True Prosperity" every day! Kenneth and Gloria Copeland share how daily challenges led them to search the Bible for principles which opened heaven’s provision for their every need. "True Prosperity" 5 CDs now $12.99 reg $25 #B200202 MP3DISC now $7.99 reg $15 #B200201 FREE standard shipping included. Offer prices valid until Feb. 29, 2020 kcm.org/mag 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) ************************************* * * * * article from p. 7 continues * * * * * This is why 2 Corinthians 9 can boldly assure us that now, “[Jesus] Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness [which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity]. Thus you will be enriched in all things and in every way, so that you can be generous, and [your generosity]…will bring forth thanksgiving to God” (verses 10-11, "AMPC"). Jesus is now our High Priest! He’s delivered us from poverty once and for all, made us joint heirs of everything He possesses, and now He’s ministering to us His abundant provision. He’ll give you seed to sow, food to eat, clothes to wear, a powerful ministry—and He’ll finance it all! He’ll minister to you THE BLESSING of Abraham and, as Proverbs 10:22 says, “The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” Activate the Faith Fundamentals and Receive “Well,” someone might say, “I’ve known for years that it’s God’s will for me to prosper financially, but so far He hasn’t done it. What’s He waiting on?” You! He’s already done His part. Now it’s your turn to receive what He’s provided, and as we’ve already established, you do that by faith. You do it not by just knowing God’s will but by putting into operation the basic faith principles He laid out in His WORD. I call these principles the fundamentals of faith, and the first of them is revealed very clearly in Mark 11:22-25, where Jesus said: “Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive….” Believing in our hearts and saying with our mouths is the first fundamental of faith. What are we to believe and say? The WORD of God. According to 2 Corinthians 4:13, “We having the same spirit of faith…believe, and therefore speak.” This is what the woman in Mark 5 did. After suffering from an issue of blood for 12 years that had ruined her both physically and financially, she heard the good news that Jesus was Anointed of God. She believed it, and when she found out where He was: "She…came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that [power] had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?... But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague" (verses 27-30, 33-34). Notice, Jesus didn’t say, “Your faith has healed you.” He said, “Your faith has made you whole.” That’s significant! Having spent all her money on physicians, she was flat broke when she came to Jesus. If she’d simply been healed, she would have still been in poverty. But she believed in her heart and said with her mouth she’d be made whole, and she was—both physically AND financially! 8 : BVOV

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