BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Our Mission in Dangerous Times by Pastor George Pearsons “The world is in serious trouble.” That is the first sentence from a very significant prophetic word delivered by Brother Copeland during Homecoming 2010 (the 2010 Southwest Believers’ Convention). The sobering message continued. “Some very hard things are coming in different places around the world. Very difficult times in a lot of places. They are that way now but they will not get better. They will continue to get worse and worse and worse. It is on a downhill run that the world cannot stop.” We have all witnessed a number of very serious world events since that word was delivered. “These are dangerous times. They are dangerous times financially. They are dangerous times in the earth because the earth is weighted under a gross weight of sin. There are things and places and situations underneath the earth, in the oceans, in the heavens. Things are being rattled and shaken. The earth is trying to break in different places.” There is no doubt that this is exactly what has been taking place. But here is the good news. You and I do not live under the dominion, rule or control of the curse. We have been redeemed from devastation and destruction. We are not subject to the times. Psalm 31:15 says, “My times are in Your hand…” ("New King James Version"). Jesus paid the full price for our protection in times like these. Look at 2 Peter 1:4: “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” The Basic English Translation says we have been “made free from the destruction which is in the world.” Galatians 1:4 reveals that it is God’s will for us to be delivered “from this present evil world.” Jesus prayed for our protection in John 17:15-17 ("NKJV"): “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” Through God’s WORD, Jesus has separated us from the collateral damage of the curse. He made a way for us to live in this world but remain totally and completely untouched by its effects. You could say we are “The Untouchables”! Proverbs 19:23, "New International Version," says, “The fear of the LORD leads to life; then one rests content, untouched by trouble.” First John 5:18 tells us, “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.” Psalm 91:7-10 assures us, “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” I often declare this scripture as a confession of faith, based on the "King James Version" and the "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition" of verse 10: “There shall no evil or calamity come near my dwelling!” There is a “dwelling”—a place of protection where you and I can live untouched by any attack of the enemy. In Psalm 91:1, it is called “the secret place of the most High.” In Psalm 32:7, it’s called the “hiding place.” And in Psalm 27:5, “For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.” In this prophetic word from The LORD, “Everything is going to be all right in the household of faith!” it is called “the household of faith.” 24 : BVOV

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